Announcement
01 Apr 2015
On 1 April 2015, the Indian Ministry of Commerce & Industry through Notification No. 01/2015-2020 notified the new Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2015-2020 replacing the earlier FTP of 2014-19. The main objectives of the FTP are to increase exports of goods and services, increase value addition in the country and generate employment. Below are listed the major amendments in the new FTP as compared to the old policy. Several schemes have been continued from the old policy to the new and can referred to in the linked policy document.
On 31 March 2020, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced that the existing Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020, which was to expire on 31 March 2020, will be extended till 31 March 2021.
On 1 September 2020, the Ministry announced that incentives under the MEIS will be available until 31 December 2020
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Number of interventions
11
9 certainly harmful
0 likely harmful
2 liberalising
List of interventions
6 in force
Implementation date
01 Apr 2015
Revocation date:
No revocation date
Export licensing requirement
In force
On 1 April 2015, the new Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 was announced which amended the export authorization period on SCOMET goods. Under the Indian Foreign Trade Policy, the exports of SCOMET (Speci...
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Import tariff
In force
On 1 April 2015, the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 was announced. As compared to the earlier Trade Policy 2009-2014, the new policy has extended the time period allowed for exports in the categories ...
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Implementation date
01 Apr 2015
Revocation date:
No revocation date
Other export incentive
In force
On 1 April 2015, India announced the new Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 which has made the following amendments for supporting export clusters and units - Two additional towns have been recognized a...
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Tax-based export incentive
On 1 April 2015, the new Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 was announced. The new Policy includes an overhaul of the Indian export incentive system. Effective 1 April 2015, the various export incentive i...
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Tax-based export incentive
On 1 April 2015, the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced the new Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 and within it introduced the Merchandise Exports Incentive Scheme (MEIS) for providing in...
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Tax-based export incentive
On 1 April 2015, the new Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 announced the Merchandise Exports Incentive Scheme (MEIS) for incentives on exports of goods, with different rates of incentives for exports mad...
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Tax-based export incentive
On 1 April 2015, the new Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 announced incentives on goods exported to Japan. Besides the country-group-specific export incentives, the newly announced Merchandise Exports I...
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Tax-based export incentive
On 1 April 2015, the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 has been announced. Under the new Policy, a new scheme for incentivizing services exports, Service Exports from India Scheme (SEIS) has been announc...
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Other export incentive
In force
On 1 April 2015, the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 was announced. The new policy has, as compared to the earlier Trade Policy 2009-2014, reduced the export obligation under the Export Promotion Capit...
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Tax-based export incentive
In force
On 1 April 2015, the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 was announced. As compared to the earlier Trade Policy 2009-2014, the new policy has extended the export obligation period under the Advance Authori...
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Import tariff
In force
On 1 April 2015, the new Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 was announced. The policy has withdrawn the exemption from anti-dumping or safeguard duties that were provided to imports of capital goods under...
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Related State Acts
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India: Inclusion of Finished Leather in the Focus Product Scheme of FTP 2009-14
10 Jul 2013
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India: Increased benefits for certain products under Focus Product Scheme
31 Dec 2012
India: Expansion of product and market range for export subsidy under Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14
01 Jan 2010
India: Addition to various export incentive schemes in 2010 under Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14
05 Jun 2012
India: Additional incentives under export schemes of the Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14
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29 Oct 2015
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04 May 2016
India: Incentives extended to additional markets under products export incentive scheme (extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
23 Oct 2017
India: Extension of validity of duty credit scrips issued under export incentive schemes (extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
05 Dec 2017
India: Incentive on service exports increased
22 May 2018
India: Rules for fulfilling export obligations liberalised (extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
22 Nov 2018
India: Temporary export incentive on certain rice varieties
14 Jan 2020
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31 Mar 2020
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