Which purpose codes are in group 02, Transport?

RBI's receipt purpose list carries 19 codes in group 02: P0201, P0202, P0205, P0207, P0208, P0211, P0214, P0215, P0216, P0217, P0218, P0219, P0220, P0221, P0222, P0223, P0224, P0225, P0226. Receipts for freight, passenger fares, leasing, port handling and postal and courier services by shipping companies, airlines and other modes.

Can a remittance under a group 02 code become an eBRC?

DGFT's guidelines do not name P0201. They say that for a service export the exporter can attach only invoices whose SAC code matches the description of the service, and that no two purpose codes may be clubbed in one eBRC except with P0103. So where P0201 is the right description of a service you exported, the eBRC is generated with P0201 on its own, or clubbed with P0103, against an invoice whose SAC code matches that service. The same holds for every code in group 02; each code's page on ebrc.in states the rule that applies.

Who chooses the group 02 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.

Transport purpose codes

Group 02 of RBI’s receipt purpose codes, Transport, carries 19 codes. Receipts for freight, passenger fares, leasing, port handling and postal and courier services by shipping companies, airlines and other modes.

Group 0219 codesRBI receipt purposes

Every code in group 02

Code	RBI wording	eBRC on DGFT
P0201	Receipts of surplus freight/passenger fare by Indian shipping companies operating abroad	Service export, not named
P0202	Receipts on account of operating expenses of Foreign shipping companies operating in India	Service export, not named
P0205	Receipts on account of operational leasing (with crew), Shipping companies	Service export, not named
P0207	Receipts of surplus freight/passenger fare by Indian Airlines companies operating abroad.	Service export, not named
P0208	Receipt on account of operating expenses of Foreign Airlines companies operating in India	Service export, not named
P0211	Receipt on account of operational leasing (with crew), Airlines companies	Service export, not named
P0214	Receipts on account of other transportation services (stevedoring, demurrage, port handling charges etc).(Shipping Companies)	Service export, not named
P0215	Receipts on account of other transportation services (stevedoring, demurrage, port handling charges etc).( Airlines companies)	Service export, not named
P0216	Receipts of freight fare -Shipping companies operating abroad	Service export, not named
P0217	Receipts of passenger fare by Indian Shipping companies operating abroad	Service export, not named
P0218	Other receipts by Shipping companies	Service export, not named
P0219	Receipts of freight fare by Indian Airlines companies operating abroad	Service export, not named
P0220	Receipts of passenger fare, Airlines	Service export, not named
P0221	Other receipts by Airlines companies	Service export, not named
P0222	Receipts on account of freights under other modes of transport (Internal Waterways, Roadways, Railways, Pipeline transports and Others)	Service export, not named
P0223	Receipts on account of passenger fare under other modes of transport (Internal Waterways, Roadways, Railways, Pipeline transports and Others)	Service export, not named
P0224	Postal & Courier services by Air	Service export, not named
P0225	Postal & Courier services by Sea	Service export, not named
P0226	Postal & Courier services by others	Service export, not named

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.

Transport purpose codes

Every code in group 02

Where the wording and the rules come from

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