Merchanting Trade Transactions - Revised Guidelines

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..... Merchanting Trade Transactions - Revised Guidelines
News and Press Release
Dated:- 17-1-2014

The Reserve Bank of India today released the revised guidelines on Merchanting Trade Transact .....

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..... ions. The earlier guidelines on the subject were issued in 2003. Merchanting or Intermediary Trade involves purchase of goods by Indian residents from non-residents and then reselling them to another .....

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..... non-resident directly without the goods touching the Indian ports. Although the merchanting trade transactions do not contribute to the exports from India, they result in net foreign exchange inflows. .....

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..... The Technical Committee on Services / Facilities to exporters (Chairman: Shri G. Padmanabhan) in its report (May 2013) recommended that the procedure be simplified. Under the revised guidelines, tot .....

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..... al period of merchanting trade has been extended from six months to nine months and short term financing for both export and import leg has been enabled. Half yearly reporting of outstanding merchanti .....

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..... ng trade by AD Banks has also been prescribed to ensure better monitoring. Ajit Prasad Assistant General Manager
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