Export Consultant in Pune | Engineering, Auto Component and Machinery Exporters | Rasp International

RoDTEP is the primary remission scheme and the rates are set against the eight digit HS code under Appendix 4R, not against a product description. Engineering is the sector where this bites hardest, because a single unit may ship castings, machined components, sub assemblies and complete equipment that sit under four different chapters and carry four different rates.

A wrong or lazy classification does not produce an error message. It silently reduces or zeroes your remission and nobody tells you. Where a unit exports a mixed consignment and classifies everything under one convenient code, the loss is invisible until somebody reconciles what was claimed against what was claimable.

Duty drawback works differently from RoDTEP and the two are frequently confused. Drawback pays directly into your bank account. RoDTEP issues a transferable scrip. A scrip can only be sold twenty four hours after issuance, not before.

The European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism moved out of its reporting only transitional phase and into its definitive phase on 1 January 2026. In scope goods can now only enter the EU through an authorised CBAM declarant, embedded emissions have to be verified, and the importer buys and surrenders CBAM certificates against those emissions.

Read the scope carefully before you panic or relax. CBAM currently covers iron and steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity, and whether a specific item is in scope is decided by its CN customs code rather than by what you call the product. A proposal to widen the mechanism to a broader set of downstream goods was published in December 2025 but has not been adopted. There is also a de minimis threshold of 50 tonnes per importer per year for cement, iron and steel, aluminium and fertilisers under Regulation (EU) 2025/2083.

The practical point for a Pune exporter is this. You do not pay CBAM. Your European buyer does. But the cost that lands on them depends on whether you can hand over verified emissions data for your production, because in the absence of that data the EU applies default values built on worst case assumptions. That turns a carbon problem into a documentation problem, and documentation problems are the ones that quietly cost you the account at renewal. Indian installations can register voluntarily in the CBAM registry and share verified data centrally so the importer can rely on it.

The RoDTEP declaration on the shipping bill checklist. If the RoDTEP option is not marked as yes at the time of filing, the claim is dead. It cannot be added retrospectively. It does not matter that your product is eligible, that your RCMC is valid, or that every other document is perfect.

We have seen exporters lose entire quarters of remission to a single unticked box handled by a CHA who was moving fast against a vessel cutoff. If you ship regularly through JNPT or through a nearby inland container depot, this belongs on a pre filing checklist that somebody in your office owns, not your clearing agent.

The other recurring failure is an AD Code, IFSC or account number mismatch between what DGFT holds and what the shipping bill carries. The scrip cannot credit to a bank account the system does not recognise.

You need a valid RCMC to claim most export benefits, and for engineering product lines EEPC India is the relevant council. RCMC is now issued electronically through the DGFT platform under the e-RCMC process, which means your DGFT profile data and your RCMC application data have to agree with each other.

Mismatches between the firm name on your IEC, your GST registration, your bank records and your RCMC application are the most common reason these get stuck. Name matching is case sensitive. A firm registered in capitals will not match the same name in title case.

Often yes, and it is under used by mid sized units that assume it is only for large plants. EPCG allows import of capital goods at zero customs duty against an export obligation calculated as a multiple of the duty saved, which suits exactly the profile of a component maker buying CNC machines, measuring equipment or a new line to win a European or American programme.

The failure mode is treating it as free money. The obligation is real, it is tracked, and it has to be discharged and formally closed. Firms get into trouble by importing under EPCG, exporting well, and then never completing the redemption paperwork, which leaves an open obligation on record long after the commercial job is done.

Where you are importing inputs rather than machines, Advance Authorisation is the parallel scheme to examine, and the same discipline applies.

Four reasons, in order of how often we see them.

Documentation mismatch across PAN, Aadhaar, GST and bank records. PAN and Aadhaar not linked, which blocks Aadhaar OTP authentication completely and forces you onto a Class 3 DSC. Handwritten cancelled cheques, which get rejected because the cheque must be pre printed with the account holder name. And branch addresses entered in an order that does not match the serial order shown on the GST certificate.

When a shipment is waiting and the cheque is the problem, a bank certificate in the prescribed format is usually the faster route than reordering a chequebook.

Yes. The window runs from 1 April to 30 June every year and it is mandatory even where there are no changes to declare. Confirming with no changes is free. Modifying carries a fee. Missing the window deactivates your IEC, which means shipments stop.

This catches established units more than new ones, because a firm exporting for fifteen years assumes a lifetime IEC needs no maintenance.

Most of this work is filing work and filing is not local. DGFT applications, RCMC, RoDTEP claims, e-BRC closure, AD Code registration and DSC issuance are handled on portals, and we file at all regional authorities and at DGFT headquarters in New Delhi. Documentation review, classification checks and scheme selection happen over call and WhatsApp.

Where physical presence matters, which is mostly customs escalation and port level coordination, we work through established relationships rather than pretending to have an office in every city.

Six things. Whether your IEC annual updation for this year is confirmed. Whether the RoDTEP declaration is being marked on every shipping bill. Whether your HS classification matches Appendix 4R for each product line rather than one blanket code. Whether any of your CN codes fall inside CBAM scope and whether you can produce verified emissions data if a European buyer asks. Whether any EPCG or Advance Authorisation obligation is open and undischarged. And whether your AD Code and bank details match across DGFT, GST and your shipping bills.

If you are unsure on any of them, that is the conversation to have.