Circular No.ES/40/2019-20 May 17, 2019
To: Members of the Council
Dear Member,
We are pleased to inform you that O/o DGFT has issued Trade Notice No. 14/2015-2020 dated 15th May, 2019 informing that there were certain shipping bills, which could not be applied for MEIS, because the codes under the shipping bills, were harmonized with the ITC HS and notified under MEIS after some delay by O/o DGFT. For more details regarding such codes, members may kindly refer to Public Notice Nos. 17 dated 22.08.2017, 22 dated 31.08.2017 and 60 dated 15.02.2018.
In this regard, members may kindly make a note of the following –
The Customs Server has now transmitted such shipping bills to the DGFT server & the necessary changes have been made thereby making these shipping bills available for MEIS 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 3.15 (a) (ii) of the HBP 2015-20, which allows three months time for filing claims under MEIS from the date of upload of EDI shipping bills onto the DGFT Server by customs, before the late cut provisions are applicable.
All the applicants with shipping bills with the relevant codes are requested to apply for MEIS claim, well within the time window of three months, to avoid any late cut.
As soon as Customs transmits the remaining shipping bills to DGFT, the same will be made available for MEIS claims at the earliest.
Members are requested to kindly make a note of the above and do the needful at the earliest.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
S.BALARAJU
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
