Chapter 85 into Faridabad via ICD Faridabad. The classification, duty and compliance levers.
Chapter 85 — Electrical machinery, IT hardware, mobile phones, LED, batteries. If you are importing under Chapter 85 into Faridabad, your nearest operating gateway is ICD Faridabad. Aurum clears here daily.
Smartphones (HS 8517 12), LED panel lights (9405 41), CCTV cameras (8525 81), power banks (8507 60), networking equipment (8517 62).
Chapter 85 compliance overlaps three regulatory bodies in most cases. Faridabad has its own optimal routing — usually ICD Faridabad, occasionally JNPT or Mundra direct depending on consignment value, time-criticality and AEO status. We model the routing per consignment rather than defaulting to one gateway.
Faridabad's own ICD Faridabad (INFBD6) is the natural gateway, set up specifically to serve the city's industrial cluster — machinery, auto-component and steel-fabrication shops dominate the volume here. Sub-two-hour last-mile to Ballabgarh, NIT Faridabad and Sector 25 means demurrage exposure is among the lowest in NCR.
Pre-shipment classification, duty estimate and PGA mapping — done before goods leave China, not after they're stuck.
Related pages: Electronics & IT Hardware sector page · Customs broker in Faridabad · ICD Tughlakabad
For Faridabad-bound cargo, ICD Faridabad usually wins on landed cost because rail-haul is bundled and last-mile is short. JNPT/Mundra direct only beats it for time-critical or oversized consignments, or for AEO-T1+ importers running DPD.
Without pre-clearance, Chapter 85 consignments are held at the dock more often than not — BIS CRS, WPC ETA, BEE star, ADD on selected components. If you pre-apply 6–10 weeks before vessel ETA, holds are rare.
No — BIS CRS R-numbers are SKU-specific. A model variant with a different display, battery or wireless module needs its own R-number or an amendment. We've seen consignments held for exactly this reason; treat every variant as a separate application.
Tell us the commodity, the origin port and the destination ICD — we'll come back with a duty estimate and clearance plan.
