Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal calls for clearing dues of exporters
File picture of Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal NEW DELHI: Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday asked his team to seek an early payment of exporters’ dues from the finance ministry, while looking at ways to help businesses raise funds against these dues. An option being explored by the commerce department, is to accept applications from exporters for the now-defunct Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) so that traders can avail of loans against the outstanding amount and get some liquidity. The revenue department has been sitting on refunds for over a...