The Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) ranks as India's foremost WTO-compliant export incentive. It returns embedded taxes — stamp duty, mandi tax, fuel levies, electricity duty, unrebated GST on inputs — still buried within the cost of exported goods. A remission of 0.5% to 4.3% of FOB value applies across most tariff lines.
Who is eligible
Every exporter moving goods on the notified RoDTEP schedule qualifies — manufacturer-exporters and merchant-exporters equally, with SEZ and EOU consignments under separate conditions. Exclusions touch selected steel, pharma and chemical lines, plus exports already drawing full drawback on the same duties. Our desk verifies your precise 8-digit lines before you spend effort on a claim.
Rates, caps and the fine print
Rates swing widely inside one chapter: adjacent tariff lines can carry 0.8% and 3.1% respectively. Chapter-wise value ceilings cap the remission per unit, and rates reset with every Trade Notice cycle. Filing from an outdated schedule is the most frequent reason claims come back short — we only ever file from the live appendix.
The claim sequence
- State RoDTEP intent while filing the shipping bill — with box 64 flagged correctly.
- Match EGM records, invoices and gateway data on ICEGATE; fix every mismatch.
- Submit the RoDTEP claim via the DGFT portal inside the limitation window.
- Follow scroll generation and verify electronic scrip credit reaching your ledger.
- Set against duty — or encash through a verified ledger transfer.
Where claims get stuck
EGM faults, gateway-port mismatches, held scrolls and duplicate-claim objections freeze thousands of crores yearly. Almost all are procedural rather than substantive — and almost all reverse with the right rejoinder plus re-filing. Where scrips are stuck, carry the shipping bill numbers into a free consultation.