All international "Gift" packages now liable for customs duty @ 77%(?)

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Yeah, I applied it as an individual merchant 😉
 
With most medium sized packages now subject to customs duty, I was thinking that I could get say packages from AliExpress shipped to Hong Kong and get it forwarded from there through Aramex ShopAndShip. Costs 10 USD plus GST for a 500 gram package. With an IEC I get the item cleared at the category wise duty, based on the actual invoice I submit. A router or minipc for example has only 18% GST (as the duty). Even if you add the forwarding cost and actual customs duty, for relatively higher value item, it would turn out to be cheaper to import it this way, rather than the much slower regular mail.
 
Amazon and NewEgg delivers the item customs cleared in India. The final charge shown is inclusive of the duty.

Anyway to answer your question, probably not. But if you get an item by DHL or any courier, they you can.
 

So where should we provide this info? And what if the item is weighing more than say 500gms?
 
varkey said:
Amazon and NewEgg delivers the item customs cleared in India. The final charge shown is inclusive of the duty.

Anyway to answer your question, probably not. But if you get an item by DHL or any courier, they you can.
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So we say buy an and item from states and ship it through DHL /or any other shipping company, can we do it through this procedure. Just providing IEC.? AND also adding a 18% gst to that said amount?
 
varkey said:
With most medium sized packages now subject to customs duty, I was thinking that I could get say packages from AliExpress shipped to Hong Kong and get it forwarded from there through Aramex ShopAndShip. Costs 10 USD plus GST for a 500 gram package. With an IEC I get the item cleared at the category wise duty, based on the actual invoice I submit. A router or minipc for example has only 18% GST (as the duty). Even if you add the forwarding cost and actual customs duty, for relatively higher value item, it would turn out to be cheaper to import it this way, rather than the much slower regular mail.
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What do you mean by adding actual customs cost..? Is it the 48 or 42 % you told earlier?
 
Ameen said:
So where should we provide this info? And what if the item is weighing more than say 500gms?
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For Aramex ShopAndShip? You need to send a copy of the IEC to them, and all future shipments would be cleared as per the category wise duty rates. It's 10 USD + GST for the first half kg, and 8 USD + GST for subsequent half kgs. This is assuming you have an Aramex ShopAndShip account, I got it many years ago for 5$ or so, not sure what is the rate now. However there are other similar providers too.

Ameen said:
So we say buy an and item from states and ship it through DHL /or any other shipping company, can we do it through this procedure. Just providing IEC.? AND also adding a 18% gst to that said amount?
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Previously, when you import items through courier even if it was for personal use, category wise duty rates would apply. Say for a router under HS code 85176930, there is only GST of 18% and no basic custom duty etc.

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However, now all personal imports are categorised under CTH 9804 which has 41.2% duty (10% BCD, 28% GST + some cess etc)

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With an IEC, you can get the category wise duty rates (but you are saying that its not for personal use too, I guess its a grey area 😉 )

Note that its not 18% duty for all items, it varies from category to category.

What do you mean by adding actual customs cost..? Is it the 48 or 42 % you told earlier?
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Category wise customs duty and not the default 41.2% duty under CTH 9804 for personal imports.
 
Received couple of small packages with some connectors, cables etc over the last few days. All were in small envelopes, with declared value of 1-2 USD (same as what I paid). No customs duty as expected.
 

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