Ashutosh Nath leads India practice of Tradewin from his Mumbai office.
Tradewin is a professional trade consulting service company established in 1997 and is a part of the leading global logistics and customs brokerage firm, Expeditors International. Headquartered in the US, Tradewin is present across the continents. Headquarter for Asia operations is in Singapore with offices in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and India.
Prior to Tradewin, Ashutosh was working with Big 4 consulting firms. During his tenure of more than a decade in the field, he has been advising clients on various Customs and Indirect Tax issues across sectors in India.
Ashutosh has managed hundreds of assignments in the field of:
- Customs and Trade Health Checks & Indirect Tax Optimization
- Setting up in Special Economic Zone and Free Trade Warehousing Zone
- Free Trade Agreements, HS Classification & Customs Valuation
- Foreign Trade Policy including duty exemption schemes and credit scrips
- GST Implementation in India
- Dispute resolutions at various levels in India
- Setting up of Companies in India
- Evaluation and implementation of fiscal incentives for setting up of operations units in India
He is a Chartered Accountant and Graduate in Commerce from Sydenham College, Mumbai University.
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Preferential tariff eligibility depends on rules of origin-importers should verify and claim benefits under trade agreements.
India's trade agreements reduce tariffs and non-tariff barriers in varied instruments. Despite numerous signed agreements, utilization by traders is low primarily due to lack of awareness and the higher costs and delays of compliance, especially the complexity and inconsistency of Rules of Origin and difficulties in obtaining origin evidence. Government initiatives include negotiating templates and outreach, but further support is needed to help importers assess eligibility and complete procedures to claim preferential tariffs. (AI Summary)
Customs - Import - Export - SEZ
MEIS/SEIS procedural automation: electronic scrip issuance, online transfer recording, and re import No Incentive Certificate rules.
A set of procedural and eligibility reforms to MEIS and SEIS emphasizes automation and ease of doing business: a No Incentive Certificate procedure for re imports requiring refund or scrip surrender where scrips were utilised; relaxed courier/export port and value treatment with capped reward computation; mandatory online recording for scrip transfers at EDI ports before transferee utilisation; online filing and system approval for SEZ shipping bill MEIS applications with prompt scrip dispatch obligations; discontinuation of physical scrips for EDI ports in favour of electronic issuance; and a timing clarification for SEIS net foreign earnings eligibility to the year services are rendered. (AI Summary)
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17 May 2019 
