TMI BlogCentral Government has approved a Scheme titled Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) for Specified Agriculture Products.X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... d Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) for Specified Agriculture Products. 2. Introduction and Objective: (i) The Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) for specified agriculture products scheme aims to provide assistance for the international component of freight and marketing of agricultural produce which is likely to mitigate disadvantage of higher cost of transportation of export of specified agriculture products due to trans-shipment and to promote brand recognition for Indian agricultural products in the specified overseas markets. (ii) The Scheme would be suitably included in the Foreign Trade Policy (2015-20). 3. Coverage: (a) All exporters, duly registered with relevant Export Promotion Council as per F ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... mal and reefer cargo). (f) For export of products by sea, TMA will be based on the freight paid for a full Twenty-feet Equivalent Unit (TEU) containers. The assistance will not be available for (i) Less than Container Load (LCL) and (ii) a container having both eligible and ineligible category of cargo. Further, no TMA is available where the cargo is shipped in bulk/break bulk mode. A forty feet container will be treated as two TEUs. (g) Assistance for products exported by air would be based on per ton freight charges on net weight of the export cargo, calculated on the full ton basis, ignoring any fraction thereof. (h) The assistance will be provided at the rates as notified in Annexure 3 . 7. Categories of export ineligible ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... vided for all agriculture products covered under HSN chapters 1 to 24, with the following exceptions: Chapter HS Codes Description Chapters 1, 2 5 All HS Codes - Live animals - Meat and Edible Meat Offal - Products of Animal Origin, not elsewhere specified or included Chapter 3 030617 - Other shrimps and prawns : Chapter 4 0401 -Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening Matter 0402 - Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... from the extraction or refining of sugar Chapters 22 and 24 All HS Codes - Beverages, Spirits and Vinegar - Tobacco and Manufactured Tobacco Substitutes Annexure (2) List of Export destinations/countries in each region under TMA List of Regions and Export destinations/countries in each region eligible for assistance under TMA are as under: Region Country Name West Africa Benin, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Niger, Cape Verde, Nigeria EU Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cypru ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Hong Kong, Taiwan South America Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela ANNEXURE (3) Differential rate of assistance under TMA (Amount in Indian Rupees) Region Amount Per TEU (Normal) Amount Per TEU (Reefer) By Air Amount per tonne West Africa 11200 19600 840 EU 9800 21000 1120 Gulf 8400 14000 700 North America ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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