Chapter 87 into Ghaziabad via ICD Tughlakabad / ICD Dadri. The classification, duty and compliance levers.
Chapter 87 — Motor vehicles and their parts. If you are importing under Chapter 87 into Ghaziabad, your nearest operating gateway is ICD Tughlakabad / ICD Dadri. 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. Ghaziabad has its own optimal routing — usually ICD Tughlakabad / ICD Dadri, 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.
Ghaziabad and Sahibabad importers split between ICD Tughlakabad (~55 km via NH-9) and ICD Dadri (~45 km via NH-91) — the choice usually turns on commodity, with Dadri preferred for plastics/polymers and TKD for electronics and machinery. Both routings keep last-mile under three hours.
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 Ghaziabad · ICD Tughlakabad
For Ghaziabad-bound cargo, ICD Tughlakabad / ICD Dadri 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.
