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4.1 Duty Entitlement Passbook Scheme - Under DEPB scheme, the exporter can apply for duty credit from the office of the jurisdictional Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), for a particular port of export. The duty credit is available for exports at specified rate for raw material, intermediates, components, parts and packing material etc. In terms of the Policy, DEPB scrips/license are freely transferrable and such scrips are permitted to be utilised for duty free import at the specified port, which is the port of export. If the DEPB scrips are required to be utilised at other ports than the port of export, it is allowed under Telegraphic Release Advise (TRA) facility as per the Notification No. 97/2009- Cus. dated 11 September, 2009 as amended. In this scheme, the importers are entitled to discharge the duty liability through debits against the DEPB scrips, under the notification as referred above. 4.2 Focus Product Scheme (FPS): This scheme, in terms of Chapter 3.15.1 of FTP, 2009-2015, has been framed with an objective of promoting the export products which have high export intensity/employment potential. The scheme is contained at paragraph 3.15.2 of the EXIM policy for export products listed in Table (1) of Appendix-37D of Handbook of Procedures, Vol.I to all countries including Special Economic Zone units, who shall be entitled for duty credit scrip equivalent to 2% or 5% of FOB value of the export in free foreign exchange for export made from 27.8.2009 onwards, unless a specific date of exports/period is specified by a public notification, 4.3. In case of certain Focus Product(s), listed in Appendix-37D the benefit is granted by way of additional duty credit scrip equivalent to 2% of FOB value of exports. In terms of Handbook of Procedure, Vol.I, as per paragraph 3.11.3, the port of registration is specified for such import or export. The two conditions which govern such scheme are enumerated in para 3.11.3 of Handbook of Procedure, which are as under: