Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has said that the government is looking at easing certain restrictions for units in the special economic zones (SEZ) to promote the sector's growth. SEZs in India are treated as foreign territories for trade and customs duties, with restrictions on duty-free domestic sales.
Regarding the industry's demand to extend benefits of the Remission of Duties or Taxes on Export Products (RoDTEP) Scheme to SEZs, the minister said the ministry will go about it ‘cautiously’. He said ‘at some point in time we will consider it once we are very confident that it will not lead to WTO non-compliance’. In these zones, the largest areas of exports are petroleum products and software.
Companies in SEZs are urging the government to permit them to sell their products in domestic tariff areas or domestic markets without paying the import duties that currently apply, similar to duty-free FTA imports. SEZs have emerged as an important contributor to India's exports. Total exports from SEZs stood at $155.8 billion in 2022-23. These included $61.6 billion in merchandise and $94.2 billion in services exports.
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