New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- In a significant Ease of Doing Business measure for exporters, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has removed the requirement of submitting physical duty payment challans while applying for Export Obligation Discharge Certificates (EODC).

Ministry of Commerce and Industry made the announcement on Monday and mentioned that the decision is taken under the Advance Authorisation (AA) and Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG) schemes.

It further said that the licence-wise voluntary duty payment data received from customs and ICEGATE (Indian Customs Electronic Data Interchange Gateway) has been integrated with DGFT's online systems, enabling authenticated verification of such payments directly against the co...