Is RoDTEP Still Available? The Scheme Clock, and What Is Actually Notified
RoDTEP has never been a permanent scheme. It has been continued by notification, usually six or twelve months at a time, and it has been allowed to run right up to the edge more than once. If you are planning exports or buying scrips, the useful thing is not an opinion about whether it will continue. It is knowing exactly what is notified today, and what happens to credit already earned if it stops.
What is notified right now
DGFT Notification No. 74/2025-26 dated 31 March 2026, headed "Continuation of RoDTEP Scheme beyond March 31, 2026", provides that "the RoDTEP Scheme shall continue for all eligible export products for a further period of six months with effect from April 01, 2026, to September 30, 2026". It adds that "the rates and value caps as notified in Appendix 4R and Appendix 4RE, as applicable on March 31, 2026, shall continue unchanged during the aforesaid period", and that the other terms and conditions of the scheme remain unchanged.
So the answer to "is RoDTEP still available" is yes, and the answer to "until when" is 30 September 2026. No notification extending the scheme beyond that date has been issued on the DGFT notification archive, so if none follows, the scheme lapses when the notified period ends. We are not predicting one and we are not predicting its absence. We are telling you where the notified line is.
Why the scheme has an end date at all
RoDTEP is a remission scheme operated under the Foreign Trade Policy, and its continuation is a policy decision taken by notification under Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 read with Para 1.02 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2023. That is the same power used for each extension, which is why the scheme's life reads as a series of dated notifications rather than as a standing entitlement.
The recent shape of it, each step from the notification itself:
- Notification No. 32/2024-25 dated 30 September 2024 continued the scheme for exports from the Domestic Tariff Area to 30 September 2025, and separately dealt with Advance Authorisation holders, Export Oriented Units and SEZ units on a shorter clock.
- Notification No. 35/2025 dated 30 September 2025 then put every category on the same date, providing that the scheme "shall remain in force and be applicable to exports made from Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) units, Advance Authorisation (AA) holders, Special Economic Zone (SEZ) units, and Export Oriented Units (EOUs) up to 31.03.2026".
- Notification No. 74/2025-26 dated 31 March 2026 continued it for a further six months, to 30 September 2026, for all eligible export products.
Two things are worth reading out of that pattern rather than out of commentary. Extensions have come late, sometimes on the last day of the expiring period. And the categories have not always moved together, which is the subject of RoDTEP for Advance Authorisation, EOU and SEZ units, where eligibility genuinely lapsed for sixteen weeks in 2025.
A scrip you already hold is not on this clock
This is the part exporters most often get wrong, and it is worth being precise about, because the two clocks are unrelated.
The scheme end date governs whether an export earns duty credit. It says nothing about credit already earned. Once a scroll is generated and an e-scrip is created, that e-scrip lives under the Electronic Duty Credit Ledger Regulations, 2021, where Regulation 6(2) provides that it is valid for two years from the date of its creation in the ledger, and Regulation 7(3) provides that the validity does not change on account of transfer.
So a scrip created in your ledger today carries its own two year window regardless of what happens to the scheme in September. If you are buying scrips, the scheme's end date is not a reason to discount one; the expiry stamped on that scrip is. When does a scrip expire covers that clock properly.
What an end date would actually mean, and what it would not
If the scheme were not extended past 30 September 2026, the mechanics follow from instruments already in force rather than from speculation:
- Exports made up to the notified date, having claimed the benefit on the shipping bill, would still work through the pipeline. Notification No. 76/2021-Customs (N.T.) dated 23 September 2021 issues duty credit against a shipping bill presented on or after 1 January 2021 where clearance and loading has been ordered, after the claim is allowed and the export manifest is filed. That sequence is tied to the export, not to the date the scroll happens to be generated.
- Scrips already in the ledger would run their two year Regulation 6(2) course and could still be used or transferred, since nothing in the Regulations ties either to the scheme remaining open.
- Exports after the date would earn nothing, because the claim would have no scheme behind it.
What we will not do is tell you the odds. A remission scheme's continuation is a fiscal decision, we have no standing to forecast it, and a page that guesses would be the sort of confident sentence this site exists not to write.
Where to check, and the page not to rely on
The reliable source is the DGFT notification archive itself, on dgft.gov.in, read by date. Extensions arrive as a numbered notification carrying the word "continuation" or "extension" in the subject line, and the notification is the fact.
A caution, offered because it cost us time and would cost you the same. DGFT's own RoDTEP landing page is not a reliable statement of the current position. Its newest extension entry has lagged the register by months, still showing applicability up to 31 March 2026 long after the current continuation took effect, with no reference to Notification No. 74/2025-26 or to the 30 September 2026 date, which by then had been in force for nearly five months. A summary page can lag the notification that governs. The notification does not lag itself.
What we could not establish
- Whether the scheme will be extended beyond 30 September 2026. Nothing extending it has been notified, and we are not going to read a tea leaf on a page a business might plan against.
- The February 2026 rate episode, in full. Notification No. 66/2025-26 dated 23 March 2026 is a restoration of RoDTEP rates and refers to an earlier notification that had restricted them, together with a corrigendum of the same date adjusting the period. We were able to read the restoring notification but not to retrieve the restricting one directly from an official host, so we are naming the episode rather than publishing figures we have only seen quoted. If rates for a specific period matter to you, read Appendix 4R or Appendix 4RE for that period rather than any summary of it, this one included.
- What happens to a claim made on an export shipped before the end date but scrolled after it. The instruments tie duty credit to the export and the shipping bill rather than to the date of scrolling, which is why we set it out that way above, but no notification addresses the transition explicitly and we have not seen it tested. Treat it as the reading rather than as a settled rule.
Checked against the notifications named on this page: the primary sources themselves, not anyone’s copy of them.
What to do with this
If you export, the practical response is not to watch the news, it is to make sure every shipping bill in the meantime actually carries the claim, since that is the step that cannot be repaired later: the RODTEPY declaration sets it out. If you are holding scrips, the scheme clock is not your clock, and the one that is belongs to each scrip's own expiry. If you are sitting on credit you cannot use yourself, selling it is the only way it becomes money.
Frequently asked questions
Is the RoDTEP scheme still available?
Yes, as notified. DGFT Notification No. 74/2025-26 dated 31 March 2026 continues the RoDTEP Scheme for all eligible export products from 1 April 2026 to 30 September 2026. No notification extending it beyond that date has been issued, so if no continuation follows, the scheme lapses when the notified period ends.
When does RoDTEP expire?
The currently notified end date is 30 September 2026, under DGFT Notification No. 74/2025-26 dated 31 March 2026. The scheme has been continued by successive notifications before this, so the date has moved before and may move again, but a future extension is not a fact until it is notified.
If RoDTEP ends, do my existing scrips become worthless?
No. A scrip already created in the Electronic Duty Credit Ledger is governed by the Electronic Duty Credit Ledger Regulations, 2021, where Regulation 6(2) gives it two years of validity from the date of creation, independent of the scheme's own end date. It remains usable and transferable within that window.
Have the RoDTEP rates changed recently?
Rates are notified in Appendix 4R for Domestic Tariff Area exports and Appendix 4RE for Advance Authorisation, EOU and SEZ exports, and they have been amended during 2026. Notification No. 74/2025-26 continued the rates and value caps as applicable on 31 March 2026 unchanged through the extension period. For a rate on a specific tariff line for a specific period, read the Appendix for that period rather than any summary.
Where do I check whether RoDTEP has been extended?
The DGFT notification archive on dgft.gov.in, read by date. The scheme's own landing page on that site can lag: on 23 August 2026 it still showed applicability to 31 March 2026 and carried no reference to Notification No. 74/2025-26.
What is the latest update on the RoDTEP scheme?
The notification chain tells the story: Notification 32/2024-25 set the base Appendix 4R schedule from 10 October 2024; Notification 60/2025-26 cut rates by half on 23 February 2026 and a corrigendum took chapters 01 to 24 back out a day later; Notification 66/2025-26 restored the rates from 23 March 2026; Notification 74/2025-26 continued the scheme from 1 April 2026 to 30 September 2026; and Notification 15/2026-27 realigned the Appendix 4R and 4RE schedule to the First Schedule of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 as amended, with effect from 1 May 2026, which is the schedule now in force. If no further continuation is notified, the scheme lapses when that period ends; scrips already created keep their own two-year validity.