Declaration of Intent Mandatory on Free
Shipping Bills for Claiming Reward Scheme Chapter 3
[DGFT Policy Circular No. 32 dated 3rd June
2011]
Subject: Clarification about requirement of
“Declaration of Intent” on Free Shipping Bills for claiming Chapter 3 scheme
benefits.
1. Para 3.11.8 of HBPv1 2009-14
(earlier Para 3.23.8 in RE-2008) provides for “Declaration of Intent” to be
made on “free shipping bills” in order to claim Chapter 3 benefits.
2. It is clarified that “Declaration
of Intent” needs to be mentioned mandatorily on the free shipping bills for
claiming Chapter 3 benefits. This declaration can be made in the product
description column in the free shipping bills where sufficient space is
available for this purpose. Instances have also been reported where free
shipping bills bear only the name of the Chapter 3 scheme like FPS, FMS etc or
the intention to claim Chapter 3 benefit has been mentioned manually on the
shipping bills duly attested by customs. In such cases RA’s will accept these
shipping bills for grant of Chapter 3 benefits.
3. The “Declaration of Intent”
would not be required for shipments filed under chapter 4 (including drawback),
chapter 5 or chapter 6 of FTP.
4. All RAs to take suitable action
accordingly.
5. This issues with approval of
DGFT.