Watch Import Duty Calculator India

Usually 9102 11 00: "Wrist-watches, electrically operated, with mechanical display only". The last digits can change with material, power or use, and the duty can change with them, so check the full heading against your product before filing.

India agreed to phase down duty on Swiss watches over several years from October 2025, under the India–EFTA TEPA. The calculator does not yet hold the year-by-year rates, so it charges the standard rate; check the TEPA schedule for the current year.

Yes. Heading 9102 splits watches by movement and display: electric with hands, electric with a digital display, and mechanical automatic or hand-wound. Most sit at 20% BCD, but use the right subheading on the Bill of Entry.

Basic Customs Duty is a tax on importing: it is a cost to you, and nothing gives it back. IGST is GST charged at the border so imports bear the same tax as goods made in India. A GST-registered business claims it back as input tax credit against the GST it collects on sales, so for a registered reseller the real cost is the value plus customs duty; the calculator shows both.

A surcharge of 10% on the customs duties, not on the value, so 20% BCD becomes 22% in total. Since 2025, lines where part of the duty moved into AIDC, such as solar modules, gold and silver, are exempt from it so their overall rate did not rise.

The rate CBIC notifies for imports, published every fortnight, in force on the day the Bill of Entry is filed. It is usually a little above the market rate. The calculator starts from a reference market rate; replace it with the notified rate for an exact figure.

Ask the supplier for a certificate of origin issued under the agreement, and claim the preferential rate on the Bill of Entry. Under CAROTAR 2020 you must also hold enough information to show the goods meet the agreement's rules of origin, and customs can deny the rate and ask for the difference if you cannot. Rates vary line by line; where the calculator does not know a line's preferential rate, it charges the standard rate.

Often, yes. Under Notification 45/2017-Cus, goods exported from India and re-imported within three years pay no duty if they are unchanged and still yours, for example unsold stock returned by a foreign buyer. Goods sent abroad for repair pay duty only on the repair cost, freight and insurance, not their full value.

It applies to commercial shipments, including express courier consignments up to ₹10,00,000. Goods ordered for personal use are assessed under heading 9804 at a single flat rate instead of the product's own line, and genuine gifts up to ₹5,000 sent by post or courier are exempt. Travellers carrying goods in baggage use the baggage allowances, not this calculation.