The full form of RCMC is Registration Cum Membership Certificate.

RCMC (Registration Cum Membership Certificate) is a membership certificate issued for 5 years by Export Promotional Councils or commodity board of India. This certificate is issued as a proof that any particular exporter is registered with the council.
 

FOR WHOM RCMC IS MANDATORY

Any person applying for:

• An authorization to import/export restricted items or
• Any person applying for any benefit or concession under Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) like duty drawback, duty credit scrips etc.

Certificate of Registration as an Exporter of Spices (CRES) issued by Spices Board shall be treated as RCMC and no other RCMC is to be applied with any other Export Promotional Councils (EPC).

HOW TO APPLY

An application with the concerned Export Promotional Council (EPC) will be filed using the form ANF 2C. The exporter can be registered under two categories; Merchant exporter and Manufacturing Exporter.

If you choose the option of manufacturing exporter, then you will have to submit proof of that.

Further, following points may be useful to you in regard to RCMC registration:

• While applying for RCMC, an exporter has to declare his main line of business. Further, the RCMC should be obtained from the Export Promotional Council, based on the line of business.  e.g. In case you are dealing in coconut, then you will fall under Coconut Development Board.
   
• In case you are not covered by any mentioned export promotional council, then you may apply at FIEO (Federation of Indian Exporters Organisation).
   
• Further, in case of multi-product exporters, not registered with any EPC, or where line of business is yet to be settled, then the exporter shall has an option to obtain RCMC from FIEO.
   
• In the case of multi-product exporters having their head office/ registered office in north-eastern states, RCMC may be obtained from Shellac and Forest Products Export Promotional Council (except for the product looked after by APEDA, Spices Board and Tea board).
   
• In case of exporters of handicrafts and handloom products from the state of Jammu and Kashmir  is authorised to issue Registration Cum Membership Certificates (RCMC)