Chapter 94 into Delhi via ICD Tughlakabad. The classification, duty and compliance levers.
Chapter 94 — Furniture, bedding, lamps and lighting fittings. If you are importing under Chapter 94 into Delhi, your nearest operating gateway is ICD Tughlakabad. Aurum clears here daily.
Office furniture (HS 9403), LED luminaires (9405 41), plywood (4412 — overlaps), bedding (9404).
Chapter 94 compliance overlaps three regulatory bodies in most cases. Delhi has its own optimal routing — usually ICD Tughlakabad, 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.
Delhi importers operate primarily out of ICD Tughlakabad (INTKD6) — the city's flagship inland container depot, 15 km from the South Delhi industrial belt and the fastest gateway in NCR for out-of-charge releases. TKD's faceless assessment pool sees high volume on Chapters 84/85/90, and proximity to the CBIC zonal office keeps queries short.
Pre-shipment classification, duty estimate and PGA mapping — done before goods leave China, not after they're stuck.
Related pages: Furniture & Lighting sector page · Customs broker in Delhi · ICD Tughlakabad
For Delhi-bound cargo, ICD Tughlakabad 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 94 consignments are held at the dock more often than not — BIS QCO on plywood, BIS CRS on LED, ISPM-15 pallet marking. If you pre-apply 6–10 weeks before vessel ETA, holds are rare.
LED luminaires fall under IS 16108 — but the R-number must match the exact model and wattage range. The most common hold is an R-number issued for a parent SKU that doesn't cover the specific variant on the BoE. Pre-clearance review catches this.
Tell us the commodity, the origin port and the destination ICD — we'll come back with a duty estimate and clearance plan.
