Amendments and Clarifications to the Guidelines for Support for Alternative Trade Instruments under Export Promotion Mission (EPM) – Niryat Protsahan.

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....for Alternative Trade Instruments intervention under EPM - Niryat Protsahan was notified, the following amendment is made and clarifications are issued with respect to the Operational and Procedural Guidelines (Annexure-II) and the Application Procedure (Annexure-IV) of the said Trade Notice: a. Discontinuation of UIN: The requirement of submitting a declaration of intent and obtaining a Unique Identification Number (UIN) prior to availing the factoring facility is discontinued. Exporters shall henceforth be identified through their Importer Exporter Code (IEC) at all stages of application, claim, and disbursal. b. Eligible factoring modalities and data filing triggers: The export factoring modalities and the corresponding....

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....e - I to the Trade Notice AMENDMENTS AND CLARIFICATIONS TO TRADE NOTICE NO. 25/2025-26 DATED 20.02.2026 I. Amendment - Discontinuation of UIN (Deletion in Annexure-IV, paras (a) to (e) and the Intent to Claim Form) Paras (a) to (e) of Annexure-IV and the Intent to Claim Form shall stand deleted. No declaration of intent or UIN shall be required for availing support under this intervention. The exporter shall be identified by its IEC at all stages. UINs already generated shall cease to have effect. II. Clarification - Eligible Factoring Modalities and Data Filing Triggers (Clarification on Annexure-II, para 2 and para 6) Support under this intervention shall be available in respect of the following export factoring modal....

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....mount shall be credited to the bank account linked to the exporter's IEC. Para 6(b): Factors shall register on the DGFT portal (dgft.gov.in) prior to uploading transaction data. Following registration, the Factor shall navigate to My Dashboard → Factoring Application Room → Start Fresh Application to upload export factoring transaction data. A prescribed data template, specifying all required data points at the transaction level, is provided therein. The data so uploaded shall constitute IEC-wise subvention claims filed by the Factor on behalf of the exporter and shall serve as the basis for validation and reimbursement claims filed by the exporter under this intervention. Each record uploaded by the Factor shall be tagg....

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..... For the avoidance of doubt, it is clarified that the relevant event for this purpose shall be the date of the underlying export, as evidenced by the date of filing of the Export General Manifest(EGM) specifying the said shipping bill. All eligible claims in respect of export factoring transactions on or after February 20, 2026 may be filed with effect from the date of operationalization. The time limitation for filing claims specified in Part III above shall apply prospectively from that date and shall not bar claims in respect of transactions occurring between February 20, 2026 and the date of portal operationalization. V. Clarification - Concurrent Availability with Interest Subvention (Clarification read with Trade Notice No. ....