Chapter 73 into Faridabad via ICD Faridabad. The classification, duty and compliance levers.
Chapter 73 — Articles of iron or steel. If you are importing under Chapter 73 into Faridabad, your nearest operating gateway is ICD Faridabad. Aurum clears here daily.
Steel pipes & tubes (HS 7306), fasteners (7318), structural steel (7308), steel wire (7217).
Chapter 73 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: Steel & Iron Articles 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 73 consignments are held at the dock more often than not — BIS certification of foreign mill, ADD on Chinese flat products, Steel QCO. If you pre-apply 6–10 weeks before vessel ETA, holds are rare.
Only for specific articles outside BIS QCO scope. For Chapter 73 articles covered by Steel QCO, foreign-mill BIS certification is non-negotiable. We map your article against the current QCO schedule before you place the order.
Tell us the commodity, the origin port and the destination ICD — we'll come back with a duty estimate and clearance plan.
