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How to import into India

Pick your product category and this tool generates the registrations, category compliance, documents and duty structure you'll face — the same checklist logic Bruce Logistics has applied to clearances for 25 years.

Your product category

The process, end to end

Nine steps from PO to warehouse

Classify the product

The 8-digit HS code decides duty, policy and compliance. Get this wrong and everything downstream is wrong.

Check the import policy

Free, Restricted or Prohibited under ITC(HS) — plus any QCO, monitoring registration or licence requirement.

Model the landed cost

BCD + surcharge + IGST, FTA route checked first. Use our landed-cost calculator.

Complete registrations

IEC, AD Code, GST, ICEGATE — plus the category gate (FSSAI, CDSCO, BIS, WPC, DGFT authorisation) before shipment, not after.

Contract & ship

Incoterms, payment terms, insurance; preferential COO arranged at origin where an FTA applies.

File the Bill of Entry

Your customs broker files on ICEGATE; advance filing speeds clearance.

Assessment & examination

Duty payment, risk-based examination, and any agency clearance (FSSAI sampling, quarantine) at port.

Out-of-charge & delivery

Goods released; inland movement to your warehouse or ours.

Post-clearance hygiene

Records for five years, IGST credit reconciliation, and EPR/quarterly compliance where applicable. Audit-ready always.

Prefer to skip all nine steps? That is the actual product. THX or a group company acts as your importer of record with the licences already in place, or Bruce Logistics executes under your IEC — either way, one accountable counterparty. Send the product spec and receive the classification, duty model and compliance list within 48 hours.