The Exporters of services may seek finances from banks for their requirements to buy consumables, supplies, and wages. Such exporters shall register with the Electronic and software Export Promotion Council or Services Export Promotion Council or with Federation of Indian Export Organizations, as applicable to their unit to be qualified for working capital export credit…
Trade Credit (Buyer’s credit/supplier credit) can be raised by Indian importers in any freely convertible foreign currency (FCY-denominated TC) or Indian Rupee (INR-denominated TC), as per the Trade Credits (TC) framework. Buyers’ credit finance means finance for payment of imports in India arranged by the importer (buyer) from a bank or financial institution outside India.…
Advance Authorisation Scheme (AAS) or Advance License Scheme is a duty exemption scheme issued by the Government of India (GOI) under the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020. The scheme exempts the payment of import duties on raw materials/inputs required for manufacturing products for export. In addition to any inputs, packaging material, fuel, oil, and catalyst which…
In the year 2015, the World Bank ranked India at 123 in the ‘Trading across Borders” component of “Ease of Doing Business”, out of 189 countries. In view of facilitating ease of doing business in our country, the Government of India simplified the mandatory documents for exports and imports. The DGFT’s Notification dated 12-3-2015, made…
Where exports made under the Duty Drawback Scheme and such bill remain outstanding beyond the prescribed time limit, the exporter needs to submit a negative statement/certificate to the nodal officer of Department of Excise and Customs on a 6 monthly basis. The negative statement /certificate will be issued either by the authorized dealer (AD) bank(s)…
The terms ‘bills purchase’,’ bills discount’, and ‘bills negotiation’ are respectively used by the bank for financing against ‘Demand Bills’,’Usance Bills’, and LC bills. The seller of goods (exporter) gets immediate money from the bank for the goods sold by him irrespective of whether it is a purchase, discount, or negotiation by the bank according…
Reserve Bank of India on Monday said it has been decided to put in place an additional arrangement for invoicing, payment, and settlement of exports/imports in INR. All Category-I Authorised Dealer (AD) banks shall require prior approval from the Foreign Exchange Department of Reserve Bank of India, Central Office at Mumbai, before putting in place…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday permitted banks to open additional current account for exports proceeds in addition to special rupee vostro accounts with a view to provide greater operational flexibility to exporters.In terms of this provision and in order to provide greater operational flexibility to the exporters, AD Category-I banks maintaining Special…
An exporter needs ECGC cover for the risk of non-payment by the buyer. The risk of non-payment may be due to political and economic changes all over the world. Political changes like an outbreak of war, civil war, a coup or an insurrection may block or delay payment for goods exported. Likewise economic difficulties or…
The term forfaiting refers to a form of trade finance involving discounting of export bills receivables such as drafts drawn under LC, bills of exchange, promissory notes, or other instruments on without recourse basis. The export of capital goods involves account receivables of medium and long term maturities. It is a general practice that the…