DGFT clarifies SEIS application will be filed with the RA with non-zero export turnover fall

New Delhi, July 10 (KNN) The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has clarified that in cases where exports from one of the categories, Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) or Special Economic Zone (SEZ) units have zero export turnovers, the Service Exports from India Scheme (SEIS) application would be filed with the Regional Authority (RA) in whose jurisdiction, the units with non-zero export turnover fall.

Service Exports from India Scheme (SEIS) aims to promote export of services from India by providing duty scrip credit for eligible exports. Under the scheme, service providers, located in India, would be rewarded under the SEIS scheme, for all eligible export of services from India.

DGFT said it had received queries related to Jurisdictional RA concerned while filing SEIS application where a firm has both DTA and SEZ units. The doubt is over the correct Jurisdictional authority, in case an mc holder has both DTA and SEZ Unit, however, there is zero export turnover- from one of the categories among the DTA SEZ units.

Explaining the new procedure, DGFT said if IECs DTA gross exports earnings are NIL, and its SEZ Unit has some gross export earnings then the application is required to be filed at the relevant DC of the SEZ.