Lok Sabha Question No. 3577 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-08-08
Subject: Grants Provided to Traders
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: KRISTAPPA NIMMALA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3577 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08 TH  AUGUST, 2016

## GRANTS PROVIDED TO TRADERS

## 3577. SHRI NIMMALA KRISTAPPA

Will the Minister of COMMERCE & INDUSTRY ( वािणÏय एवं उɮयोग मंत्री ) be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the grants provided to the traders for import and export during the last three years and the current year;
- (b) the amount of grants provided separately for the import-export of sugar, foodgrains, edible oils and oil cakes during the said period;
- (c) the details of such traders/companies which have been provided more than rupees five crore as grants for carrying out such trade;
- (d) whether  certain  products  were  imported  by  the  government  at  higher  rates  which  were subsequently exported at lower rates and if so, the reasons therefor; and
- (e) the  number  of  companies  against  which  the  cases  of  irregularities  have  been  registered during  the  last  three  years  and  the  current  year  along  with  the  action  taken  agaisnt  the persons/companies found guilty?

## ANSWER

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## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

(SMT. NIRMALA SITHARAMAN)

(  a):  Government  provides  incentives  in  form  of  duty  credit  scrips  linked  to merchandise export performance under chapter 3 of Foreign Trade Policy through the following schemes:

| Merchandise Exports from India Scheme                                                                                                                                                                                       | Scheme currently available                                         |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Focus Product Scheme (FPS), Focus Market Scheme (FMS), Market Linked Focus Product Scrip (MLFPS), Vishesh Krishi and Gram Udyog Yojna (VKGUY), Agri. Infrastructure Incentive Scrip and Incremental Export Incentive Scheme | Schemes withdrawn but incentives still being given for past claims |

No such incentives are provided for imports. The details of suchincentives provided for exports during the last three years and the current year is as follows:

|   S. No. | Year           |   Export incentive-Rs Crore |
|----------|----------------|-----------------------------|
|        1 | 2013-14        |                       16844 |
|        2 | 2014-15        |                       17768 |
|        3 | 2015-16        |                       15898 |
|        4 | Apr -July 2016 |                        6295 |

- (b): Government has not provided anysuch export incentives to sugar, food grains, and edible oils in the past 4 years. The amount of incentive provided for export of oil cakes during the last three years and the current year is as follows:
- (c): No traders/companies have been issued such export incentive for more than rupees five crore for export of Oil Cake during the last three years and the current year;

|   S. No. | Year           |   Export incentive-Rs Crore |
|----------|----------------|-----------------------------|
|        1 | 2013-14        |                        0    |
|        2 | 2014-15        |                        0.04 |
|        3 | 2015-16        |                       13.35 |
|        4 | Apr -July 2016 |                        7.61 |

(d)& (e): Information is being collected and will be placed on the table of the house.

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