Chapter 87 into Delhi via ICD Tughlakabad. The classification, duty and compliance levers.
Chapter 87 — Motor vehicles and their parts. If you are importing under Chapter 87 into Delhi, your nearest operating gateway is ICD Tughlakabad. Aurum clears here daily.
Auto parts & accessories (HS 8708), bearings (8482 — overlaps), tyres (4011 — overlaps), EVs (8703 80).
Chapter 87 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: Vehicles & Auto Parts 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 87 consignments are held at the dock more often than not — AIS type approval where applicable, ADD on steel inputs, EPCG for tooling. If you pre-apply 6–10 weeks before vessel ETA, holds are rare.
Not always — AIS type approval applies to safety-critical and homologated parts. Generic parts (washers, fasteners, brackets) typically don't. The decisive question is whether the part is on the AIS schedule for type approval, which we map against each line of the packing list.
Tell us the commodity, the origin port and the destination ICD — we'll come back with a duty estimate and clearance plan.
