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Govt approves Rs 600 cr subsidy sops to merchant exporters

The government Wednesday decided to provide 3 per cent interest subsidy to merchant exporters, entailing an expenditure of Rs 600 crore, to enhance liquidity with a view to boosting outbound shipments.  

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Govt approves Rs 600 cr subsidy sops to merchant exporters
The government Wednesday decided to provide 3 per cent interest subsidy to merchant exporters, entailing an expenditure of Rs 600 crore. Image source: Reuters

The government Wednesday decided to provide 3 per cent interest subsidy to merchant exporters, entailing an expenditure of Rs 600 crore, to enhance liquidity with a view to boosting outbound shipments.

The decision was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.

"The proposal will entail benefits of around Rs 600 crore to exporters on interest equalisation for the remaining period of the scheme," an official release said.

Approval has been given to the proposal of the Department of Commerce for "including merchant exporters under the interest equalisation scheme for pre- and post-shipment rupee export credit by allowing them interest equalisation rate of 3 per cent on such credit for export of products covered under 416 tariff lines (products) identified under the scheme," the release said.

These products are largely in MSME/labour-intensive sectors such as agriculture, textiles, leather, handicraft and machinery.

It added that the inclusion of merchant exporters in the scheme is expected to make exporters more competitive, encourage them to export more products manufactured by MSMEs.

"Additional exports by them will increase production by MSME giving a fillip to employment generation as MSME are generally in the employment-intensive sectors," it added.

The government had launched the interest subsidy scheme in April 2015 for five years for all manufacturing exporters. But merchant exporters were not covered under the scheme.

Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu has time and again raised the issue of declining export credit. He had suggested that loans to exporters should be considered as priority sector lending by banks.

Citing RBI data, the commerce minister had stated that outstanding export credit had come down to Rs 22,300 crore on June 22, 2018, from Rs 39,000 crore as on June 23, 2017.

A decline in export credit has hit exporters in general and MSME units in particular.

Commenting on the decision, Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) President Ganesh Kumar Gupta said that the move would help in promoting exports.

"Loans at affordable rates would help exporters to promote exports," he said.

Leading manufacturer and exporter of leather products Farida Group Chairman Rafeeq Ahmed said the move would help exporters in getting credit at affordable rates.

"Like manufacturing exporters, merchant exporters too contribute significantly in exports. They should be encouraged," Ahmed said.

The present scheme, which is in force from April 1, 2015, for five years, provides interest equalisation (or subsidy) rate of 3 per cent to all manufacturing exporters shipping 416 products and 5 per cent on all merchandise products manufactured and exported by MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises).

The statement said that the exporting community was persistently demanding inclusion of merchant exporters in the scheme.

"Merchant exporters play an important role in finding overseas markets, getting export orders, communicating to MSME manufacturers the current preferences, trends and demand for products in international export markets," it said.

It added that these exporters also play a key role in exports of MSME manufacturers as they ship a significant quantity of products through merchant exporters.

"High cost of credit equally impact their competitiveness also as they factor the high-interest costs in their export costing," it added.

During April-November 2018-19, the country's merchandise exports grew by 11.58 per cent to USD 217.5 billion.

Since 2011-12, India's exports have been hovering at around USD 300 billion. During 2017-18, shipments grew by about 10 per cent to USD 303 billion.

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