Which purpose codes are in group 01, Exports (of Goods)?

RBI's receipt purpose list carries 9 codes in group 01: P0101, P0102, P0103, P0104, P0105, P0106, P0107, P0108, P0109. Receipts for goods exported from India: bills negotiated or sent on collection, advances, merchanting trade and exports to Nepal and Bhutan.

Can a remittance under a group 01 code become an eBRC?

It depends on the code. Under DGFT's eBRC guidelines, P0102, P0103, P0104, P0109 can be used, and P0101 and P0105 and P0107 and P0108 cannot. Each code's page on ebrc.in quotes the rule that applies.

Who chooses the group 01 purpose code on a remittance?

The AD bank that receives the payment. It reports the remittance to the RBI with the code that describes it, and that report is the IRM the eBRC is generated from. A code that looks wrong is corrected through the bank.

Exports (of Goods) purpose codes

Group 01 of RBI’s receipt purpose codes, Exports (of Goods), carries 9 codes. Receipts for goods exported from India: bills negotiated or sent on collection, advances, merchanting trade and exports to Nepal and Bhutan.

Group 019 codesRBI receipt purposes

Every code in group 01

Code	RBI wording	eBRC on DGFT
P0101	Value of export bills negotiated / purchased/discounted etc. (covered under GR/PP/SOFTEX/EC copy of shipping bills etc.), Other than Nepal and Bhutan	No, DGFT excludes it
P0102	Realisation of export bills (in respect of goods) sent on collection (full invoice value), Other than Nepal and Bhutan	Yes, goods export
P0103	Advance receipts against export contracts, which will be covered later by GR/PP/SOFTEX/SDF, other than Nepal and Bhutan	Yes, alone or clubbed
P0104	Receipts against export of goods not covered by the GR /PP /SOFTEX /EC copy of shipping bill etc. (under Intermediary/transit trade, i.e., third country export passing through India	Yes, goods export
P0105	Export bills (in respect of goods) sent on collection, other than Nepal and Bhutan	Discontinued by RBI
P0106	Conversion of overdue export bills from NPD to collection mode	Not in RBI's 2012 list
P0107	Realisation of NPD export bills (full value of bill to be reported), other than Nepal and Bhutan	Discontinued by RBI
P0108	Goods sold under merchanting / Receipt against export leg of merchanting trade	No, DGFT excludes it
P0109	Export realisation on account of exports to Nepal and Bhutan, if any	Yes, goods export

Where the wording and the rules come from

The wording in the table is RBI’s, from the receipt purpose list in Annex I to A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 84 dated 29 February 2012, the list Authorised Dealer banks report foreign exchange receipts against. The eBRC column is DGFT’s, from its General Guidelines for Generating eBRC (last updated 26 March 2024), and each code’s page quotes the rule behind its entry. How the purpose code is checked when a remittance is mapped is in RBI purpose codes on your eBRC.

Exports (of Goods) purpose codes

Every code in group 01

Where the wording and the rules come from

Other groups

The code arrives with the money. So can the certificate.