Advance Licence: An advance licence is granted to a merchant exporter or manufacturer exporter for the import of inputs required for the manufacture of goods without payment of basic customs duty. Raw materials, components, intermediates, consumables, parts, spare (not exceeding 5% of the CIF value of the duty free licence), packing materials and computer software may be imported under this scheme. However, such inputs shall be subject to the payment of additional customs duty equal to the excise duty at the time of import. Exemption from payment of additional customs duty shall be allowed, if the advance licence is issued with actual user condition to the manufacturer exporter or merchant exporter. Advance licences shall be issued in accordance with the policy and procedure in force on the date of issue of licence. It shall be subject to the fulfilment of a time bound export obligation and value addition as may be specified.