Search India’s customs import records by ITC(HS) code, product, importer or port. See quantities, assessable values, duty and the overseas suppliers behind each shipment.
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| ITC(HS) code | Indian tariff classification up to 8 digits |
| Importer name and address | The declared consignee in India |
| Supplier name | The overseas exporter on the declaration |
| Product description | As filed on the bill of entry |
| Quantity and unit | Declared volume and unit of measure |
| Assessable value | Value on which duty is computed, in INR and USD |
| Duty paid | Basic customs duty and applicable cesses where published |
| Port of clearance | Sea port, air cargo complex or ICD |
| Country of origin | Where the goods were produced |
It is the shipment-level record of goods entering India, compiled from Indian customs filings — importer name, HS code, product description, quantity, assessable value, duty and the port of clearance.
All major sea, air and ICD locations including Nhava Sheva (JNPT), Mundra, Chennai, Kolkata, Tuticorin, Cochin, Delhi Air Cargo, Bangalore and Hyderabad, plus land customs stations.
Yes — search by 2, 4, 6 or 8-digit ITC(HS) code, or by product keyword if you do not know the classification yet.
Indian import and export data is refreshed monthly, typically within weeks of the customs release.
Two features of the Indian system make its records more tractable than most. The first is the entity identifier attached to every filing, which means a company’s history aggregates deterministically rather than through fuzzy name matching — no judgement calls about whether two similar spellings are the same business, and no risk of merging two that are not. The second is the inland clearance network, which puts a genuine geographic signal on the declaration: companies file where it is convenient, and convenience is geographic.
Together those give Indian trade data something most markets lack — reliable company-level aggregation and a usable location field. It is why counterparty verification, manufacturer-versus-merchant analysis and cluster-level market work are all more dependable here.
| Gateway group | Serves | Typical commodities |
|---|---|---|
| Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Kandla, Hazira, Pipavav | Western and northern India | Chemicals, polymers, machinery, textiles, project cargo |
| Chennai, Kattupalli, Kamarajar, Tuticorin | Tamil Nadu and the south east | Auto components, electronics, chemicals, capital goods |
| Cochin, New Mangalore | Kerala and coastal Karnataka | Petroleum, fertiliser, food inputs, machinery |
| Visakhapatnam, Krishnapatnam, Kakinada | Andhra, Telangana and the east coast | Bulk cargo, chemicals, pharmaceutical inputs, minerals |
| Kolkata, Haldia, Paradip | Eastern and north eastern India | Steel inputs, minerals, edible oils, machinery |
| Inland depots (Tughlakabad, Dadri, Ludhiana, Pithampur…) | Landlocked clusters | Whatever the cluster manufactures or consumes |
The Indian duty stack compounds: basic customs duty applies to the assessable value, a surcharge applies to the duty, integrated tax applies to the total of those, and any cess or trade remedy sits alongside. Every rate attaches to a tariff line rather than to a product, which means the classification does not merely affect the duty — it determines the entire landed cost. A classification confirmed before the goods ship is the cheapest hour in any import project.
Anti-dumping and safeguard measures are origin-specific and can be notified quickly. Goods ordered under one duty regime can arrive under another, so check at order time and again before shipment on sensitive lines.
Indian duty is assessed at the national line, not at the six-digit international code.
Learn more ›The depot or port narrows the geography better than any other field in the record.
Learn more ›Long enough to separate seasonality from trend, with the incomplete recent periods excluded.
Learn more ›Inputs in and finished goods out is the clearest evidence of a real manufacturing operation.
Learn more ›Trade data rewards a short, boring discipline far more than it rewards technique. Four steps cover most of it, and skipping any one of them is where the confident wrong conclusions come from. Fix the classification first, because every filter, every duty figure and every price comparison downstream is keyed to the tariff line and inherits any error in it. Then read at least three years, so that seasonality and trend can be told apart rather than conflated. Then exclude the most recent one or two periods, which are still filling in as late filings arrive. Then separate value from volume, because a value movement can be price, quantity or a change of mix inside the line, and those point in different directions.
| Step | What it prevents | Cost of skipping it |
|---|---|---|
| Confirm the tariff line | Filtering the wrong product | Every downstream figure is wrong by an unknown amount |
| Read three years | Mistaking a season for a trend | Strategy built on a cyclical high or low |
| Drop the incomplete tail | Reading reporting lag as decline | Writing off buyers who never stopped buying |
| Separate value from volume | Reading price as demand | Investing against a movement that was not demand |
| Check the counterparty | Acting on an unverified name | Credit or capacity committed to a company with no history |
| Record the period and source | Unrepeatable analysis | Figures nobody can reconcile three months later |
The material here is one layer of a set that is meant to be used together. The country pages establish the shape of a market from official reported figures. The HS chapter pages take a single classification down to product level. The industry hubs group the chapters that make up a real industry and sum them, because almost no industry is one chapter. The India location pages read the national record as places, using the clearance point as a geographic signal. And the trade role pages take one job at a time — building an importer list, checking an exporter, reading a lane — and set out the signals that matter for it.
Reported totals, partner markets and chapter breakdown for 99 markets.
Learn more ›All 98 chapters, each with the markets that trade it.
Learn more ›Thirty-eight industries, each summed across the chapters it spans.
Learn more ›Seventy-nine trading places, their gateways and their clusters.
Learn more ›The same record read as a buyer list, a supplier check or a lane analysis.
Learn more ›Classification, documentation, pricing, sourcing and compliance in practice.
Learn more ›Customs records cover goods that physically crossed a border and were declared to an authority. They do not cover services. They do not cover domestic trade, so a business selling mainly inside its own market will look far smaller here than it is. They carry no margin, no contract terms, no payment behaviour and no intent. Coverage of counterparty names varies by jurisdiction and is not universal, data arrives on a lag, and published periods are revised as corrections come in.
None of that reduces what the record is good for, and stating it plainly is what makes the rest credible. Used within its limits, customs data is one of the very few commercial sources where the underlying event actually happened, was documented at the time, and was documented under legal obligation rather than for promotional purposes. That is a rare property, and it is worth not overselling.
Before relying on any trade dataset — ours or anyone else's — ask which markets are covered at which depth, what the lag is in each, how company names were matched, and what happens to a historical series across an HS revision. The answers tell you more than any headline figure.
The bill of entry as filed — importer and identifier, overseas supplier, HS code to the national line, product description, quantity, declared value, origin, port of clearance and the duty assessed.
Approximately, through the clearance point. Indian consignments frequently clear at inland depots near the trader, which makes the depot the strongest geographic signal in the record.
Eight. The first six are internationally harmonised; the last two are India's national extension and are what the duty rate actually attaches to.
It refreshes on the customs authority's release cycle, normally monthly. The most recent one or two periods are still filling in and should be excluded from trend analysis.
The declaration carries the assessed duty, which is what makes Indian records useful for landed-cost work as well as for counterparty discovery.