Special drive for disposal of applications for fixation of Brand Rate of Duty Drawback

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....ther stakeholders, the Board vide Instruction No. 03/2020- Customs dated 09.04.2020, had initiated a special refund and drawback disposal drive from 09.04.2020 to 30.04.2020 with the objective of priority processing and disposal of all pending refund and drawback claims so as to provide immediate relief to the business entities and especially MSMEs. 2. Representations have also been received in the Board from exporters about delay in fixation and disbursal of Brand Rate of duty drawback. The reports regarding age wise pendency status of applications for fixation of Brand Rate received from the Zones show that a majority of them are pending beyond the period of six months. 3. Brand Rate of duty drawback can be claimed on the basis of a....

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....nd Rate, for which verification has been completed or held as not to be required, should be disposed off; (b) Exporter's request for provisional Brand Rate should also be considered and disposed. For this purpose, any claim pending for provisional AIR under Rule 7 of Drawback Rules, 2017, should also invariably be processed; (c) Cases where no application for provisional Brand Rate has been filed, an option may be offered to the applicant to apply for provisional Brand Rate, and the same may be considered as per the Rules; (d) For exporters who have filed application under the Normal scheme but who fall under the select five categories of exporters eligible for Revised Simplified scheme may be offered an optio....