EU CBAM for Importers of Steel, Aluminium and Fasteners
CBAM is live for EU importers of Indian steel and aluminium. Whether the 50-tonne line catches you, what default values cost you, and the data to ask your supplier for.
Trade guides
How import duty, rules of origin, payment and freight work when you buy from abroad.
Importing From India Into
How Free Trade Agreements Cut Your Duty
How a trade agreement cuts your duty line by line, why the entry date decides your rate rather than the order date, and how to time a shipment around a start date. India examples.
How Sea Freight Gets From Asia to You by Route, Transshipment Hub and Transit Time
How a container gets from an Asian factory to your port, why the quoted transit time slips, and how to name the port of loading. India lanes as the example.
How to Find the HS Code for Your Product
How the HS works, the six classification rules in plain words, binding rulings, and why your supplier's code may not be yours, with one T-shirt in 5 tariffs.
How to Pay an Overseas Supplier Safely and What Each Payment Method Really Protects
Advance, deposit against the B/L, letters of credit, D/P, D/A, open account and escrow: who carries which risk, what the bank checks, and India's rules.
How to Work Out the Real Import Duty on Any Product
The eight-step method for the duty you will actually pay: HS code, base rate, FTA proof, stacked duties, valuation and VAT, worked with an Indian T-shirt.
Importer of Record and Who Controls Your Customs Declaration
When your Indian supplier or its courier makes the customs declaration, you lose refunds, VAT and control of the box. How to stay importer of record, by country.
Low-Value Import Rules by Country for Selling Direct From Overseas
Low-value import thresholds, who collects the VAT or GST, and what happens above the line in AU, NZ, UK, EU, US and UAE, plus the courier-as-importer trap.
Paid Full Duty by Mistake? How to Claim FTA Duty Back
Your origin proof arrived late or your broker missed the preference. The refund and post-entry routes in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US and the EU, the evidence, the deadlines, and why claims fail.
Proof of Origin Certificates, Self-Declarations and Importer's Knowledge
The three kinds of proof of origin, who signs each, who customs questions when it checks, and which one to use, with the UK, Australia, NZ and EU as examples.
Rules of Origin Explained: How Goods Qualify for FTA Duty Rates
How a product earns FTA origin: tariff shift, value content, tolerance, accumulation and the steps that never count. Worked with an Indian T-shirt and table.
Timber-Legality Rules by Country for Importing Wood Products
What you must prove about the wood in furniture, decor and toys under EUDR, the Lacey Act, Australian illegal logging law, UKTR and NZ, told through a real Indian rosewood case.
Wood Packaging Rules (ISPM 15) for Pallets, Crates and Dunnage
What the ISPM 15 mark means, which wood is exempt, what happens at the border without it, the stricter Australian rules, and what to write in your PO.