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

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The path taken by the package is interesting. 😝😝

Hongkong - Japan - China - India - UAE and the destination is Kochi 😂😂

The reason is that the FedEx Cargo flight take that path. Although I'd have thought they'd do the customs clearance in Delhi and then send it as a domestic package.
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Finally in Bengaluru 🤪

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10+ days for customs clearance, FedEx is damn slow, basically defeats the purpose of getting anything through express courier. The only issue was that the seller by mistake entered part of the address in the company name field in the shipment manifest, and which FedEx claims to have caused additional delays. Any person looking at it can understand that it's part of the address. 😑

They have also outsourced the KYC process for international shipments to some 3rd party called Cogent E Services which employs some really incompetent people. I was literally fed up of dealing with those idiots. Anyway all documents were submitted and processed even before the shipment reached Bangalore. And then FedEx delays clearance stating no KYC documents, the customer care or email support is clueless on the reason for the delay. Nobody gives a clear answer, some people say the KYC docs are still pending whereas they were all submitted days ago.

I'd never deal with these losers again, I had asked for Aramex and due to the Corona issue, the seller's logistic partner had to ship it through FedEx for some reason.

I'm yet to get a copy of the bill of entry, so not sure what duty they charged, I did use my PAN and IEC for clearance. Will probably know tomorrow.
 
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Got the BOE, duty was charged at 18% as expected. Declared value was 80 USD FOB ie freight on board. I had asked the seller to make it 80 USD CIF ie cost insurance freight, but looks like they missed that.

Since it's FOB, they add 20% of the item value as freight charges, and 1% as insurance, so assessable value came to 7k or so with duty/gst at 1250 or so.

The stupid part is, FedEx charges some duty advancement charges of Rs 500+tax just for paying the duty on my behalf. Aramex charges just Rs 100 or as clearance charges.
 
Nice, can you tell me in brief how to get the IEC as an individual? I have seen conflicting stuff on internet some say you have to be a company to get IEC others say individuals can get it as well.
 
@JB700 Well, you could apply through the DGFT portal. I entered my name and address, and submitted copy of PAN and voter ID for address proof.

For a sole proprietorship, everything is based on the proprietor's PAN, there is no additional documentation or anything required for it. I put the designation of the applicant as Proprietor when applying for the IEC.
 
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