Bill of Entry filing under Section 46 of the Customs Act — FCL, LCL, air and courier — with HS classification, duty assessment, SVB proceedings, DGFT licence utilisation (AA, EPCG, DFIA), duty drawback and post-clearance audit support. Audit-ready files as standard, not on request.
Ocean FCL/LCL, airfreight and project cargo, both directions — rate discovery across carriers, routing that respects your cash cycle, and honest transit estimates instead of optimistic ones.
CDSCO (cosmetics, drugs, devices), FSSAI, BIS CRS, WPC ETA, EPR e-waste, LMPC labelling and AIR mandates for foreign brands — plus HS opinions, FTA/COO strategy, CAROTAR support and written go/no-go opinions on restricted goods.
Import into India without setting up a local company. Bruce acts as the legal importer — licences, duty payment and compliance liability — with FEMA-compliant remittance and IDPMS closure. Built for foreign brands, IT deployments and project companies. The formal engine behind our market-entry offer.
Your entire India import function, managed: supplier coordination, freight booking, compliance filings, clearance, warehousing and delivery under one accountability. You sell. We import.
Free Trade Warehousing Zone handling near JNPT — storage, re-labelling, neutral packing, consolidation and switch bills of lading, duty-free until re-export — plus bonded and general warehousing. The infrastructure behind our third-country trade desk.
| Item | Detail | Typical timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Ports of operation | JNPT / Nhava Sheva (INNSA1) · Mumbai Air Cargo (INBOM) · Sahar CSIA · ICD Patparganj & Tughlakabad via partners | — |
| Routine customs clearance | RMS-facilitated consignments, documents in order | 2–5 working days |
| Complex / examination cases | First-check, SVB, re-assessment or query cases | 7–14 working days |
| CDSCO cosmetics import registration | SUGAM filing, AIR mandate, label compliance | ≈ 9 weeks |
| BIS CRS + WPC ETA + EPR | Electronics compliance, parallel-tracked | 3–4 months total |
| Regulated-cargo clearance | Food (FSSAI/FICS), cosmetics (CDSCO), electronics (BIS/WPC), chemicals (CHIMS), monitored lines (SIMS/PIMS/CIMS) | Category-dependent |
Timelines are working guides from live practice, not undertakings — regulated categories move on regulator clocks. What Bruce controls is filing quality, and that is where the days are won.
A customs broking licence is renewable, auditable and revocable. A firm that holds one for years behaves differently: it screens counterparties, refuses grey routings, and documents everything — because the licence is worth more than any single deal. When THX says a transaction has been screened, this is who screened it, in writing.
That is also why the difficult categories concentrate here. SCOMET dual-use screening on instrument exports, sanctions checks on new corridors, chartered-engineer processes on refurbished equipment, e-waste EPR before first import — handled as routine because the routine is the product.
Credentials: CB Licence AAECB6279PCH001(11/1680) · CIN U63000MH2011PTC220094 · GSTN 27AAECB6279P1ZX — verifiable with the Customs Commissionerate.
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Classification, duty model and clearance plan — from the broker who will actually file it.