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Govt allows export of 2 MT sugar till Sept 2018 to clear surplus

The Dollar Business Bureau In a bid to further ease the sugar exports and to clear surplus stocks, the Government on Wednesday allowed export of 2 million tonnes of the sweetener till the end of the current marketing year (October to September). Earlier, the Government has scrapped the 20% export duty and doubled the duty on sugar imports to 100%. Besides, the Government has permitted the exports of white sugar until September this year under the scheme of Duty Free Import Authorisation (DFIA), in which exporters can import sugar duty-free within the next three years, till September 2021. Sugar mills in the country have to pay Rs.13,899 crore to sugarcane farmers as on March 21, 2018, as per the official data. Sugar mill are allowed ...

Incentives to exporters under various schemes to touch Rs.1.2 lakh crore: Prabhu

The Dollar Business Bureau Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu said on Thursday that financial incentives for exporters through various export promotion schemes such as Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) is expected to cross Rs. 1 lakh crore in the fiscal 2017-18. “Incentives to exporters under various schemes like the popular MEIS, SEIS, Advance Authorisation and the Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG) would cross Rs.1,00,000 crore and touch Rs.1,20,000 crore or even more depending on the performance of exports in the last two months of the fiscal,” Prabhu said while addressing a press conference. “You heard our Finance Minister say (in his Budget speech) that exports this year could have a growth of 15% over the previous year. A good export performance means ...

FTP Review: Industry welcomes MEIS & SEIS incentives, hike in duty credit scrips validity

The Dollar Business Bureau The industry has welcomed the initiatives taken in the mid-term review of Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) – 2015-20, specifically the 2% increase in rates under the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) and Services Exports from India Scheme (SEIS), as well as the raising of validity period of duty credit scrips from 18 to 24 months. Welcoming the FTP’s mid-term review, Ganesh Kumar Gupta, President, Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) said that the 2% increase in the MEIS rates for labour intensive sectors such as leather, carpets, handicrafts, tools, marine, medical & scientific products and services such as accountancy, architecture, legal, education, hotel and restaurant will provide much needed respite to these sectors which are facing huge ...

RoSL on garments exports to continue at pre-GST rates for 3 months

The Dollar Business Bureau  The Finance Ministry on Wednesday notified the continuation of pre-GST rates of Rebate of State Levies (RoSL) on the export of garments and textile made-up articles for the transition period of three months after the implementation of the new tax regime. “It is to bring to your notice that Ministry of Textiles has issued notification no. 12020/3/2016-IT (Pt.) dated July 31, 2017 restoring the pre-GST RoSL rates that were revised downwards with effect from July 1, 2017. This has been made effective for a transition period of three months i.e. July 1 to September 30, Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) in its circular (no.34/2017-CUS). Earlier, post-GST, the CBEC in a notification (no.14/26/2016-IT) dated June 27, had revised ...

Govt exempts duty on re-imports of certain goods

The Dollar Business Bureau The Government has exempted custom duty on the re-imported goods which are exported under claim for drawback of any customs or excise duties levied by the Union, drawback of any excise duty levied by a State, for rebate of Central Excise duty, bond without payment of Central Excise duty, duty exemption scheme (DEEC/Advance Authorisation/DFIA) or Export Promotion Capital Goods Scheme (EPCG). “The Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the goods falling within any Chapter of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975)….when reimported into India, from so much of the duty of customs leviable and the whole of the additional duty, ...

The last FTP scored just pass marks. A 40% target-achievement wont do this time!

 Steven Philip Warner | @TheDollarBiz   Policies cannot be judged unequivocally by outcomes. Under such ambiguity, let us say that in many-a-case, failure becomes the twin of a noble impulse, and criticism is the outcome of bold decisions at a macro-level. But there is an indicative measuring rod. A number that has a soul to appraise performance vis-a-vis promise. When FTP 2009-14 was released, the-then policymakers had set a target of crossing the $500 billion mark in India’s exports by FY2014. The target therefore called for $315 billion in incremental annual exports. By FY2012, it had become profoundly certain that India’s FTP lacked punch – perhaps some real big incentives in  the form of credit scrips or drawbacks ...