Export Consultant in Surat | Diamond, Jewellery and Textile Exporters | Rasp International

For diamonds, coloured stones, gold and silver jewellery and lab grown diamonds, it is the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council. For man made fibre fabric, filament yarn and synthetic textiles, it is the Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council. Apparel exporters fall under the Apparel Export Promotion Council instead.

RCMC is issued electronically through DGFT now, which means your council application has to agree with your DGFT profile exactly. Firm name matching is case sensitive. GST branch addresses have to be entered in the serial order printed on the certificate.

Yes. Rough diamonds move under the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme and both the import and the re export leg need valid KPCS documentation. A parcel without a matching certificate does not clear, and reconstructing the paperwork after the fact is not a realistic option.

Polished goods sit outside KPCS, which is precisely why units handling both rough and polished need internal separation of documentation. Mixing the two workflows is how certificates end up attached to the wrong consignment.

They classify differently, and classification drives everything downstream including your remission rate. The domestic industry has been substituting imported finished polished lab grown goods with locally produced stones, so more Surat units are now running an import leg on rough lab grown material and an export leg on finished product.

If you are running both legs, get the classification confirmed in writing before you scale volume. A wrong eight digit code on a growing product line compounds quietly across every shipping bill you file.

Not by advance remittance. Under the RBI notification dated 13 January 2026, advance payment for import of precious metals including gold and silver is not permitted. For a jewellery exporter this is a working capital constraint, not a paperwork one, and it needs to be built into how you structure orders and sourcing.

Duty free gold, silver and platinum for export production runs through Nominated Agencies. The IGST treatment at import stage has been an active industry issue and GJEPC has been pressing for the upfront exemption to be preserved specifically for export bound imports. If your working capital plan assumes a particular IGST position, verify it is still current before you commit.

This is the most expensive confusion in the city.

RoSCTL applies to apparel and made ups. Man made fabric and filament yarn are not apparel and not made ups. A Surat fabric mill is a RoDTEP claimant, not a RoSCTL claimant. A garment or made up exporter is the reverse.

Units that manufacture fabric and also produce made ups are running two different schemes on two different product lines out of one factory, and they need two different filing disciplines. Treating it as one process is how half the claim quietly disappears.

The RoDTEP declaration not marked on the shipping bill checklist at filing. It cannot be added retrospectively. The claim dies there, no matter how eligible the product is or how clean everything else looks.

Also check AD Code, IFSC and bank account consistency between your DGFT records and your shipping bills. A mismatch means the scrip has nowhere to credit.

Remember a scrip can only be sold twenty four hours after issuance, not before. Duty drawback is separate and credits your bank account directly rather than issuing a scrip.

SEZ units operate under a different customs and duty framework from units in the domestic tariff area, and the rules governing sale from an SEZ into the DTA have been under active revision, including Notification 11/2026-Customs dated 31 March 2026 and industry representations to widen its application to gems and jewellery.

If you are inside an SEZ, or weighing a move into one, treat the DTA sale question and the incentive eligibility question as one decision rather than two. They interact, and the answer changes when the notifications change.

Potentially a great deal. GJEPC has publicly welcomed the India and United States trade agreement announcement as material relief for gem and jewellery exports, and has said zero duty access under an India and EU FTA could roughly double bilateral gem and jewellery trade.

Preferential access is only worth something if you can prove origin. That means Certificate of Origin discipline and, for the EU, correct registration under the applicable origin framework. Exporters who wait until the agreement is live to sort out origin documentation spend the first two quarters unable to use the benefit they were promised.

Whether your product line is a RoDTEP claim or a RoSCTL claim, confirmed rather than assumed. Whether the RoDTEP declaration is being marked on every shipping bill. Whether your HS classification matches your actual product mix, particularly if you have added lab grown lines. IEC annual updation confirmed for this year, the window being 1 April to 30 June and mandatory even with no changes. AD Code and bank details matching across DGFT, GST and shipping bills. Certificate of Origin capability in place before the FTA benefits land rather than after.