( pl ref my amendment post dated 26.06.2019 where requirement EP copy and Landing certificate requirement is dispensed with and SEZ/EOU/FTWZ also eligible under scheme)
Dear Friends,
Dear Friends,
As you aware, Normally Exporters always used to do lot of homework on customs clearance and Ocean / air freight cost to work out and offer competitive CIF price. Especially in the case of Agro products exporters the scenario is too worst since they are not in position to bargain and negotiate better Freight due to lack of time and last minute rush to complete shipment.
Now Indian Government has come out with a new scheme to support specified Agro products exporters by way of reimbursing a specified amount as a support under Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) recently. Most of the small and medium Agro products exporters are not aware of it. Refer below Notification and make use of it !!!
Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
05-March-2019
Transport and
Marketing Assistance (TMA) for Specified Agriculture Products Notified
Department of Commerce of the Ministry of
Commerce & Industry has notified a scheme for Transport and Marketing
Assistance (TMA) for Specified Agriculture Products.
2. Introduction
and Objective
i.
The “Transport and
Marketing Assistance” (TMA) for specified agriculture products scheme aims to
provide assistance for the international component of freight and marketing of
agricultural produce which is likely to mitigate disadvantage of higher cost of
transportation of export of specified agriculture products due to
trans-shipment and to promote brand recognition for Indian agricultural
products in the specified overseas markets.
ii.
The scheme would be
suitably included in the Foreign Trade Policy (2015-20).
3.
Coverage
a. All exporters, duly registered with relevant
Export Promotion Council as per Foreign Trade Policy, of eligible agriculture
products shall be covered under this scheme.
b. The assistance, at notified rates, will be
available for export of eligible agriculture products to the permissible
countries, as specified from time to time.
4.
Applicability: The Scheme would be applicable for a period as specified
from time to time. Presently the Scheme would be available for exports
effected from 1.3.2019 to 31.03.2020
5. Eligibility
of Products: The assistance will be provided on export of all agriculture
products covered in HSN chapter 1 to 24 including marine and plantation
products except those mentioned in Annexure (1).
6.
Pattern of Assistance
(a) Assistance under TMA
would be provided in cash through direct bank transfer as part reimbursement of
freight paid. FOB supplies where no freight is paid by Indian exporters are not
covered under this scheme.
(b) The level of assistance
would be different for different regions as notified from time to time for
export of eligible products. List of export destinations/countries in each
region eligible for assistance under TMA are mentioned in Annexure (2).
(c) The assistance shall be
admissible only if payments for the exports are received in Free Foreign
Exchange through normal banking channels.
(d) The scheme shall be
admissible for the exports made through EDI ports only.
(e) The scheme covers
freight and marketing assistance for export by air as well as by sea (both
normal and reefer
cargo).
(f) For export of products
by sea, TMA will be based on the freight paid for a full Twenty-feet Equivalent
Unit (TEU) containers. The assistance will not be available for (i) Less than
Container Load (LCL) and (ii) a container having both eligible and ineligible
category of cargo. Further, no TMA is available where the cargo is shipped in
bulk/break bulk mode. A forty feet container will be treated as two TEUs.
(g) Assistance for products
exported by air would be based on per ton freight charges on net weight of the
export cargo, calculated on the full ton basis, ignoring any fraction thereof.
(h) The assistance
will be provided at the rates as notified in Annexure 3.
The following exports categories / sectors shall be ineligible
under this scheme:
i.
Products exported from
SEZs/ EOUs/ EHTPs/ STPs/ BTPs/ FTWZs
ii.
SEZ/EOU/EHTPs/STPs/BTPs/FTWZs
products exported through DTA units
iii.
Export of imported
goods covered under paragraph 2.46 of the FTP;
iv.
Exports through
trans-shipment, i.e. exports that are originating in third country but trans-
shipped through India;
v.
Items, which are
restricted or prohibited for export under Schedule-2 of Export Policy in ITC
(HS), unless specifically notified.
vi.
Export products which
are subject to Minimum Export Price or export duty, unless specifically
notified.
vii.
Export of goods
through courier or foreign post offices using e-Commerce
8.
Procedure for Availing Assistance under the Scheme
TMA would be reimbursed through the Regional Authorities of DGFT
as per the procedure laid down in Chapter 7(A) of Handbook of Procedures
(2015-2020).
9.
Mechanism for Scrutiny of the claims, audit, recovery and penal action.
DGFT will lay down procedure for scrutiny of the claims, audit
of the payments made, recovery of the ineligible/excess paid assistance,
interest on such recoveries. The defaulters shall be liable for penal
action under the provisions of Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation)
Act, 1992, Rules and orders made thereunder.
Annexure (1)
List of agriculture products not eligible
under TMA
The assistance will be provided for all
agriculture products covered under HSN chapter 1 to 24, with the following
exceptions:
Chapter
|
HS Codes
|
Description
|
Chapters 1, 2 & 5
|
All HS Codes
|
- Live animals
- Meat and Edible Meat Offal
- Products of Animal Origin, not elsewhere specified or
included
|
Chapter 3
|
030617
|
- Other shrimps and prawns :
|
Chapter 4
|
0401
|
-Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added
sugar or other sweetening matter
|
0402
|
- Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar
or other sweetening matter
|
|
0403
|
- Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and
other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or
containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing
added fruit, nuts or cocoa
|
|
0404
|
- Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added
sugar or other sweetening matter; products consisting of natural milk constituents,
whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, not
elsewhere specified or included
|
|
0405
|
- Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy
spreads
|
|
0406
|
- Cheese and curd
|
|
Chapter 7
|
0703
|
- Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous
vegetables, fresh or chilled
|
Chapter 10
|
1001,
1006
|
-Wheat And Meslin
-Rice
|
Chapters 13 & 14
|
All HS Codes
|
- Lac; Gums, Resins and other Vegetable Saps and Extracts
- Vegetable Plaiting Materials; Vegetable Products not
elsewhere specified or included
|
Chapter 17
|
1701,
1703
|
-Cane Or Beet Sugar And Chemically Pure Sucrose, In Solid
Form - Raw Sugar Not Containing Added Flavouring Or Colouring Matter ;
-Molasses resulting from the extraction or refining of
sugar
|
Chapters 22 and 24
|
All HS Codes
|
- Beverages, Spirits and Vinegar
- Tobacco and Manufactured Tobacco Substitutes
|
List of Export destinations/countries in each region under TMA
List of Regions and Export destinations/countries in each region
eligible for assistance under TMA are as under:
Region
|
Country
Name
|
West
Africa
|
Benin,
Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Niger, Cape Verde, Nigeria
|
EU
|
Albania,
Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City
|
Gulf
|
|
North
America
|
Antigua
and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras,
Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
|
ASEAN
|
Brunei
Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
|
Russia
& CIS
|
Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,
Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
|
Far
East
|
Japan,
North Korea, South Korea
|
Oceana
|
Australia,
Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau,
Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
|
China
|
PRC
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
|
South
America
|
Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador,
Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela
|
Annexure (3)
Differential rate of assistance under TMA (Amount in Indian
Rupees)
Region
|
Amount
Per TEU (Normal)
|
Amount
Per TEU (Reefer)
|
By
Air
Amount
per tonne
|
West
Africa
|
11200
|
19600
|
840
|
EU
|
9800
|
21000
|
1120
|
Gulf
|
8400
|
14000
|
700
|
North
America
|
21000
|
28700
|
2800
|
ASEAN
|
5600
|
12600
|
700
|
Russia
& CIS
|
12600
|
22400
|
700
|
Far
East
|
8400
|
12250
|
840
|
Oceana
|
16800
|
24500
|
2800
|
China
|
0
|
12600
|
840
|
South
America
|
23800
|
31500
|
3500
|
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