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Commerce Minister writes to FM to address exporters concerns

17 Oct 2017 Evaluate

Seeking quick remedies to address exporters’ concerns, Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu has written to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Prabhu stressed on improving usability of the scrips earned under the MEIS - the most popular incentive scheme for exporters covering more than 7,000 items - as post-GST the scrips can be used for payment of only customs duties. This has reduced the premium on the scrips (valued at 2-5 per cent of export amount) as earlier it could be used for payment of all input taxes such as central excise duty and service tax.

The Commerce Minister proposed that the MEIS scrips should be allowed to be used for payment of GST and also proposed that the rate of MEIS be increased from 5 per cent to 7 per cent for labour-intensive sectors such as leather, footwear, handloom, handicraft, Ayush, marine products, electronic components and the MSME sector, which suffer the most during a downturn.

The other proposals of the Commerce Ministry includes, an enhanced rate from 3 per cent to 10 per cent in the Services Export from India Scheme (SEIS) for hotels and restaurants, reducing GST rate on sale of MEIS/SEIS scrips to zero per cent, increasing the rate of interest subvention from 3 per cent to 5 per cent for labour intensive sectors, have capital infusion of Rs 2,000 crore in ECGC scheme, address working capital blockage due to pay first and then refund principle of GST, exempting merchant exporters from payment of GST and enhancing support for the trade-related Infrastructure for Export Scheme and Enhanced Support For Market Access Initiative schemes.

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