In terms of Regulation 2 of FEMA Notification No.13 dated May 3, 2000, Non-Resident Indian (NRI) means a person resident outside India who is a citizen of India. Person of Indian Origin (PIO) means a citizen of any country other than Bangladesh or Pakistan who had (a) at any time held Indian passport or (b)…
The terms citizen, nationality and domicile are different to residential status of a person. The residential status of a person in India is based on two different Acts viz. (i) Income Tax Act, 1961, ( I.T. Act) (ii) Foreign Exchange Management Act 1999. Under Income Tax Act, the residential status of a person is decided…
“Delivered at Terminal’ or three letter abbreviation DAT refers to common contractual term used in international trade. The term DAT replaces earlier term ‘Delivered ex quay’. As per ‘Delivered ex quay’ term seller must deliver the goods at a wharf, and was thus applicable to goods delivered via waterways (whether inland or sea). The term…
Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) is a scheme introduced by RBI as liberalisation measure to facilitate Resident Individuals (RI) to freely remit funds up to USD 2,50,000/- outside India in a financial year (April to March) for any permissible current or capital account transaction or a combination of both. Any resident individual including a minor is…
All financial exchanges between one country and another country of the rest of the world are made up of the current account transactions (such as exports and imports of goods and services of a country) and the capital account transaction that reflects net change in ownership of national assets. Capital account includes all kinds of…
Generally, correspondent banking arrangement involves two banks establishing reciprocal accounts with each other through bilateral agreements. These accounts are established to enable the domestic bank to make payments or money transfers on behalf of the foreign bank. The most common services provided by correspondent banks are currency exchange, wire transfer, handling business transactions and trade…
(This post elucidates various terminologies used by banks in their dealing rooms for limit fixed to them in their day to day operations by their management) The Treasury operations in the forex (foreign exchange) market are between the banks. The inter-bank foreign currency operations are taking place for two purposes namely (i). Buying and selling…
Trade Credit (Buyers 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 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. The suppliers’…
RBI in its circular dated January 16, 2019 advised that ECS framework for both in foreign currency and Indian Rupee has been consolidated and the Revised Regulation FEMA 3 R/2018 has been notified by the Government of India on December 17, 2018. Accordingly, vide A. P. (DIR Series) Circular on the new ECB policy has…
The interest Equalisation Scheme (IES) for pre and post shipment rupee export credit is being implemented by Directorate (DGFT) through commercial banks.The scheme came into effect from 01.04.2015 and is for a period of 5 years.(The scheme was earlier called as ‘interest subvention scheme’ which was existing for the period from August 2010 to 31.03.2015).…