Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has issued a Trade Notice No. 36/2015-2020 in order to address the issue of imposition of higher late cut by the system when the exporter applies second time on the re-activated shipping bills. Therefore, the members of the the trade and the RAs are required to take note of the following steps to address the issue of imposition of higher late cut by the system re-activated shipping bills –

1. The applicant firm will create a new Ecom application number for the re-activated shipping bills for which MEIS is intended to be claimed. Exporters may note that at the time of generation of the new Ecom number, the online system may show the applicable late cut as on the date of generation of new number (100%, 10%, 5% and 2%, as the case may be for each shipping bills).
2. The firm would not submit this new/revised application after building the Ecom application and getting the new Ecom number and instead is required to register a request at contact@DGFT (under a newly created dropdown ” MEIS for reactivated shipping bills”) to remove late cut for the shipping bills and mention the E com application number.
3. On receipt of such request, the NIC technical team at DGFT HQs would –

• Edit the late cut fields in the application at the back end
• Convert the application to ‘Manual’ mode and thereafter inform the firm to submit the file to the concerned RA online without making any other change in the application. The communication from/to the exporter would be through the mechanism of contact@dgft only and no separate instructions would be sent to the applicant firm.

4. The applicant may then –

• Submit the MEIS application online for the relevant Ecom after submission of fees online and
• Thereafter, also submit a manual/paper request to the concerned RA quoting the new File number (corresponding to the submitted Ecom number) along with a list of Shipping Bills and the corresponding rejection/deficiency letters issued by the RA mentioning the File no(s) in which the relevant shipping bills were disallowed earlier.

5. RA would then examine and process the application received manually, and imposes appropriate cut percentage in the E-com module’s relevant field for each shipping bill. This late cut imposed by the RA will be based on the date of submission of each shipping bill(s) in its first submission file (earlier file). RAs must not allow MEIS benefits under this mechanism for shipping bills, in which MEIS was earlier rejected/ dis-allowed on account of “mis-classification” or where –Declaration of Intent” was missing in the shipping bills.

6. RAs would then issue the scrip online as per the current procedure.

Source: Directorate General of Foreign Trade

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