On announcement of Foreign Trade Policy on 1 April, 2015, 4914 products at 8
digit Harmonised Codes (HS Codes) were covered under Merchandise Export from
India Scheme (MEIS). Since then, the coverage has been widened adding 3000
products thereby covering a total of 7914 products at present. These lists of
items are available at the website link dgft.gov.in
The review of MEIS was intended to boost India’s export performance. MEIS
covers all the countries now. Since there is no distinction among
countries/regions now, the proof of landing has been dispensed with, there by
simplifying procedure and reducing transaction cost.
Exports have shown some revival during the last two months. During October,
2016, exports have shown a positive growth of 9.59% in dollar terms (12.43%
higher in Rupee term) compared to October, 2015
At present, the MEIS is available at varying rates of 2- 5 % depending on the
export products. There is no proposal under consideration to increase the
incentive to 6% as the available resources have been fully allocated during this
fiscal year.
For service sector, the Government has introduced the Service Exports from
India Scheme (SEIS) w.e.f. 01.04.2015 under which the service providers of
notified services are incentivised in the form of duty credit scrips in the
range of 3-5 % on their net foreign exchange earned. These SEIS scrips are
transferrable and can also be used for payment of a number of Central
duties/taxes including the basic customs duty. The services covered under the
scheme falls under nine broad sectors which are the following:
- Business services
- Business services
- Construction and related engineering services
- Educational services
- Environmental services
- Health related and social services
- Tourism and travel related services
- Recreational, cultural and sporting services
- Transport service
This information was given by the Commerce and Industry Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply in Lok Sabha today
Source: http://investinindia.com/