Pariksha SaathiGovernment Extends RoDTEP Scheme for Exporters Up to 31 December 2026
Exporters will keep receiving RoDTEP benefits until 31 December 2026, after the Department of Commerce extended the scheme for Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products through Notification No. 41/2026-27 issued on 30 September 2026. The extension covers exports from four categories: units in the Domestic Tariff Area, holders of Advance Authorisation, Special Economic Zone (SEZ) units and Export Oriented Units (EOUs). Under RoDTEP, exporters are reimbursed for duties, taxes and levies charged at the Central, State and local level that end up built into the cost of an exported product and are not refunded through any other route, including cumulative indirect taxes paid at earlier stages of production. No rate change accompanies the extension: the rates and value caps notified in Appendices 4R and 4RE, as they stood on 30 September 2026, will continue to apply through the extended period. The government presented the step as a way of giving Indian exporters a level playing field against competing economies in international markets.
Drafted with AI assistance from the official PIB release linked above and checked against it by a second AI pass. Not line-edited by a human.
Learning context
RoDTEP took effect on 1 January 2021 as the replacement for the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS). In the WTO dispute India — Export Related Measures (DS541), brought by the United States, a panel report circulated on 31 October 2019 found MEIS to be a prohibited export subsidy, treating its duty-credit scrips as a direct transfer of funds rather than a remission of indirect taxes; India appealed in November 2019. RoDTEP was therefore built around refunding only those taxes that are actually embedded in exports and not refunded elsewhere.
Reference: WTO dispute page DS541, India — Export Related Measures
Check yourself: is RoDTEP an export incentive paid on top of costs, the way MEIS was treated?
No. RoDTEP is framed as a remission of duties, taxes and levies already embedded in the exported product and not refunded under any other mechanism. That design is what separates it from MEIS, which the WTO panel treated as a prohibited export subsidy.
Revision task: note what this notification changed (only the end date, now 31 December 2026) and what it left unchanged (the rates and value caps in Appendix 4R and 4RE, and the eligible exporter categories).
Test yourself
Up to which date has the Department of Commerce extended the RoDTEP scheme (Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products) for exporters?
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Answer: 31 December 2026
Notification No. 41/2026-27 of 30 September 2026 extends RoDTEP to 31 December 2026, with no change to the rates and value caps.
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