RBI relaxes norms to facilitate export through warehouses in 'Bharat Mart' in UAE

24 Apr 2025 Evaluate

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has relaxed norms to facilitate export through warehouses in 'Bharat Mart', a multimodal logistics network-based marketplace in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), that will provide Indian traders, exporters, and manufacturers access to the markets around the world. The RBI said banks may allow exporters to realise and repatriate full export value of goods exported to 'Bharat Mart' within nine months from the date of sale of the goods from the warehouse.

Further, banks have been asked to allow opening/hiring of a warehouse in 'Bharat Mart' by an Indian exporter with a valid importer exporter code without any pre-conditions, after verifying the reasonableness of the same. It also apply on remittances by the Indian exporter for initial as well as recurring expenses for setup and continuing business operations of its offices.

Recently, the commerce ministry data had showed that India's merchandise exports, after four months of decline, turned positive and grew marginally by 0.7 per cent to $41.97 billion in March 2025 as compared to $ 41.69 billion in March 2024. Besides, merchandise imports increased by 11.3 per cent to $63.51 billion in March 2025 as compared to $57.03 billion in March 2024. The trade deficit, or the gap between imports and exports, widened to $21.54 billion in March 2025. The trade deficit in February 2025 was $14.05 billion. In March 2024, it stood at $15.33 billion. 


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