Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) Scheme
Updated: 17 Oct 2025
Ministry:
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Beneficiary:
Miscellaneous
Overview
The RoDTEP scheme refunds unrebated taxes and duties like coal cess and mandi tax to exporters, ensuring zero-rated exports. It replaces the earlier MEIS and RoSCTL schemes to make Indian exports more competitive.
- RoDTEP aims to reimburse the taxes and duties incurred by exporters such as local taxes, coal cess, mandi tax etc., which are not getting exempted or refunded under any other existing scheme.
- It ensures zero rating of exports i.e., taxes and duties should not be exported.
- It replaces erstwhile Merchandise Export from India Scheme (MEIS) and Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies (RoSCTL).
- MEIS violated the provisions of WTO by giving export subsidies for a wide range of goods.
- RoSCTL was offered for embedded state and central duties and taxes that are not refunded through goods and services tax (GST).