Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Update on Foreign Trade Policy 2015-20


This is to update you that the Central Government has notified the revised Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 which shall come into force w.e.f. 05th December 2017.  
Following are the key highlights on the amendments in the policy for your information.

·           Rates of incentive under Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (‘MEIS’) and Service Exports from India Scheme (‘SEIS) have been increased for few notified goods and services respectively.  We are unable to attach the files due to size. The same can be downloaded from the link: http://dgft.gov.in/ (Public notice 44/2017-MEIS, 45/2017-SEIS). 

·           The validity period of the duty credit scrips has been increased from 18 months to 24 months.

·           Some of the facilities / benefits extended to exporters holding Authorised Economic Operator (‘AEO’) certificate vide customs circulars has been formalised under the policy. Few of such benefits are as follows:
o   Facility of deferred payment of customs duties.
o   24/7 clearances on request at all sea ports and airports without Merchant Over-Time (MOT) charges. 
o   In addition to the above benefits, such exporter can import duty free goods under a self-declaration and self-ratification instead of getting a ratification of the Norms Committee for inputs to be used in the manufacture of export products.


·         Restriction on import of second hand goods under EPCG scheme has been removed.

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