FTP - Set Top Box Added to List in FPS

By Vijay Kumar

FPS = FOCUS PRODUCT SCHEME

The Object of the Scheme is to promote export of products, which have high export intensity/employment potential, so as to offset infrastructural inefficiencies and other associated costs involved in marketing of these products.

Export of products (listed in Table 1 of Appendix 37D of HBPv1) to all countries (including SEZ units) shall be entitled for Duty Credit Scrip equivalent to 2 % or 5% of FOB value of exports (in free foreign exchange).

Now, Set Top Box /Set Top Unit (STB/STU required for receiving Digital Signals from DTH & Cable in CKD / SKD is included in the list in Appendix 37D with a 5% duty credit.

DGFT Public Notice No.51 (RE2012)/2009-14 Dated: March 05, 2013.