DGFT Receives 57028 for 724 HS Codes Shipping Bills with HS Codes from Customs for MEIS Claims to Cover Cases of Missing HS Codes

[DGFT Trade Notice No. 14 /2015-2020 dated 15 May 2019]

Subject: Three months time window for applying for MEIS for Shipping bills with HS Codes which were harmonized and notified under MEIS Appendix 3B, Table 2 after a delay

There were certain shipping bills, which could not be applied for MEIS, because the codes under the shipping bills, were harmonized with the lTC HS and notified under MEIS after some delay by this Directorate. The Public Notice 1 7/ 22.08.2017, 22/ 31.08.2017 and 60/ 15.02.2018 may kindly be referred to for such codes.

2. It is informed that the Customs Server has now transmitted such shipping bill s to the DGFT server and the necessary changes have been made thereby making these shipping bills available for application under MEIS. The HS Code list for which shipping bills have been received may be seen in the Annexure. For these shipping bills, the applicant can take the benefit of the para 3.1 5 (a) (ii) of the HBP 201 5-20, which allows three months time for filing claims under MEIS from the date of upload of EDI shipping bill s onto the DGFT Server by customs, before the late cut provisions are applicable . Therefore, all the applicants with shipping bills with the relevant codes are requested to apply for MEIS claim, well within the time wind ow of three months, to avoid any late cut.

3. As soon as Customs transmits the remaining shipping bills to DGFT, the same will be made available for M EIS cl aims at the earliest.

4. This is issued with the approval of the competent authority.

[Click here for Annexure to Trade Notice No. 14 dated 15.05.2019]