APPENDIX 21 C
PROCEDURE
OF ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER
(Procedure
for deposit/refund of Import Application fees through Electronic Fund Transfer
for notified schemes through designated banks)
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1. Applicability to Schemes & banks. |
This procedure will be applicable for deposit of
application fees in the case of Advance license and EPCG to begin with. Other
schemes may be added in due course. Exporters may pay through designated
banks on website. At present the State Bank of India, ICICI and HDFC banks
have been designated to accept funds by way of Electronic Fund Transfer
(EFT). The banks and schemes where payment can be made through Electronic
Fund Transfer (EFT) under this regime shall be further notified from time to
time. |
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2. Mode of filing |
Application shall have to be filed electronically
where net banking payments facility is being used, i.e. application
particulars shall have to be submitted on the DGFT web site with digital
signature. |
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3. Scale of Application fee. |
PARTICULARS |
Amount of fee (in rupees) |
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1. Application for import license (except for DEPB
and EPCG) where CIF value of goods specified in the application does not
exceed Fifty thousand. |
Two hundred. |
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2. Application for import license where CIF value
of goods specified in the application exceeds Rupees Fifty Thousand. |
Two per thousand or part thereof subject to
minimum of Two hundred and maximum of One lakh and fifty thousand. However,
for applications filed electronically, the max. fee would be Rs. seventy five
thousand. |
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3. Application for import license filed by SSI
units where the CIF value of goods specified in application does not exceed
Rupees Two lakhs. |
Two hundred. |
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4. Application for Duty Entitlement Passbook
(DEPB) and other duty credit schemes. |
Five per thousand of duty credit subject to a min.
of Rs. Two hundred. |
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5. Application for grant of duplicate license
including Duty Entitlement Pass Book and other duty credit schemes. |
Two hundred. |
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6. Application for issue of certificate of
Importer/Exporter Code Number (IEC) |
One thousand. |
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7. Application for duplicate copy of IEC No. |
Two hundred. |
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8. Application for issue of an Identity Card. |
Two hundred. |
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9. Application for issue of duplicate Identity
Card. |
One hundred. |
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10. Application for revalidation of an import
license. |
Two hundred. |
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11. Application for Export Promotion Capital Goods
(EPCG). |
Five per thousand of duty saved subject to a min.
of Rs. Two hundred. However, for applications filed electronically, the max.
fee would be Rs. Two Lakh and fifty thousand. |
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“NOTWITHSTANDING THE ABOVE, THE APPLICATION FEE FOR ALL APPLICATIONS
FILED ELECTRONICALLY WOULD BE 50% OF THE AMOUNT SPECIFIED IN THIS TABLE. THE
WORD ‘ELECTRONICALLY’ WHEREVER APPEARING IN THIS APPENDIX WOULD MEAN
‘DIGITALLY SIGNED AND SUBMITTED THROUGH EFT’ ON DGFT WEBSITE
(ONLINE/OFFLINE).” |
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4. Mode of Deposit |
For electronic filling of application
exporter/importer needs to access the website of the DGFT. An e-com number is
generated. The DGFT website on completion of details would prompt if
e-payment is to be made. If the exporter wants to move to Electronic Fund
Transfer (EFT) for application fees he should be aware that he cannot change
his licensing office. If EFT prompt is accepted, the website will transfer
the exporter to the particular designated bank chosen for submission of
application fees. The exporter would need to have an account with the bank,
an ID and password from the bank. On successful validation of his ID,
Password and request for submission of the fees the exporter`s account gets
debited. The bank will generate a Payment ID and amount shall thereafter
stand reflected in conjunction with e-com number, name of party in the sever
of DGFT. A successful message by the bank shall show on the exporters
account. The payment shall thereafter stand completed with regard to the
concerned e-com number. In case the exporter needs to add further payments
against the particular e-com number he may do so within the same day i.e.
upto 24.00 hrs. For each additional payment the bank shall generate a unique
payment ID. Against one e-com number only one bank shall be required to make
all payments. |
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5. Exemption from Payment of fee. |
No fee shall be payable in respect of any
application made by such class or category of applicant as specified in the
Foreign Trade (Regulation) Rules, 1933. |
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6. Refund of Application fee |
1. The fee once received will not be refunded
except in the following circumstances viz., |
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7.Contact Persons |
For further clarifications at DGFT end please contact
Shri A.K. Singh, Joint DGFT, Directorate General Foreign Trade, Udyog Bhawan,
New Delhi. Phone No. 23016232 For banking clarifications nodal officers of :- |