DGFT Clarification
on Regularisation of Higher Late Cut on Shipping
Bills Reactivated in Ecom Module – First Shipping
Bill Date in Online Ignored by the System for MEIS
[DGFT Trade Notice
No. 36/2015-2020 dated 9 October 2019]
Sub: Issue of Late
Cut being imposed by the system while applying MEIS on reactivated shipping bills
This Directorate has been receiving multiple representations
from the members of the trade and the EPCs regarding the difficulties being faced
by exporters, when a claim is being made by the exporters for shipping bills, which
have been re-activated in the E com module. The trade has reported that under the
current online MEIS application mechanism, the system is applying late cut based
on the second submission date and not counting the date of first online submission
of the applied shipping bills [from the relevant first/earlier application]. Many
such cases have also been decided in the PRC waiving late cut when exporter applies
for the second time on the basis of the re-activated shipping bills.
2. In order to address this issue of imposition of higher
late cut by the system for re-activated shipping bills, members of the trade and
the RAs may take note of the steps as mentioned in the sequence below:
i. The applicant
firm will create a new Ecom application number for the
re-activated shipping bills for which MEIS is intended to be claimed. Exporters
may note that at the time of generation of the new Ecom
number, the online system may show the applicable late cut as on the date of generation
of new number (100%, 10%, 5% and 2%, as the case may be for each shipping bills).
ii. The firm would not submit this new/revised application
after building the Ecom application and getting the new
Ecom number and instead is required
to register a request at contact@DGFT (under a newly created
dropdown ” MEIS for reactivated shipping bills”) to remove late cut for the shipping
bills and mention the E com application number.
iii. On receipt of such request, the NIC technical team at DGFT HQs would
a) edit the late cut fields in the application at the back end
; b) convert the application to ‘Manual’ mode and thereafter inform the firm
to submit the file to the concerned RA online without making any other change in
the application. The communication from/to the exporter would be through the mechanism
of contact@dgft only and no separate instructions would
be sent to the applicant firm.
iv. The applicant may then a) submit the MEIS application online for the
relevant Ecom after submission of fees online and b) thereafter,
also submit a manual/paper request to the concerned RA quoting the new File number
(corresponding to the submitted Ecom number) along with
a list of Shipping Bills and the corresponding rejection/deficiency letters issued
by the RA mentioning the File no(s) in which the relevant shipping bills were disallowed
earlier.
v. RA would then examine and process the application received manually,
and imposes appropriate cut percentage in the E-com module’s relevant field for
each shipping bill. This late cut imposed by the RA will be based on the date of
submission of each shipping bill(s) in its first submission file (earlier file).
RAs must not allow MEIS benefits under this mechanism for shipping bills, in which
MEIS was earlier rejected/ dis-allowed on account of “mis-classification”
or where –Declaration of Intent” was missing in the shipping bills.
vi. RAs would then issue the scrip online as per the current procedure.
3. Difficulties, if any, in implementation of these
provisions may please be brought to the notice of this Directorate immediately.
4. This is issued with the approval of the competent
authority.
[F.No.01/61/180/114/AM20/PC-3]