One 8-digit code drives six outcomes
Classification isn't paperwork — it's the single decision your entire import or export economics hangs on. Get it wrong in either direction and it costs money: overpay silently, quarter after quarter, or underpay and answer for it later, with interest, up to five years on.
Import duty stack
BCD, Social Welfare Surcharge, AIDC and Health Cess — every rate keys off the 8-digit line. The wrong line means the wrong landed cost.
GST rate & invoice HSN
The HSN you print on every invoice, and the GST slab you charge, both flow from the same classification.
Licences & clearances
BIS, FSSAI, CDSCO, WPC, Legal Metrology, EPR — whether a clearance is triggered at all depends on where the product sits in the tariff.
Export incentives
RoDTEP, RoSCTL and drawback are all published against tariff lines. Mis-classify and you leave incentive money on the table.
FTA eligibility
Preferential rates under ASEAN, UAE CEPA, UK CETA and more are granted per tariff line — subject to rules of origin and CAROTAR 2020.
Penalty exposure
Under-declaration is recoverable for up to five years, with interest and penalty. The classification is the first thing an auditor checks.
Classification is now a monitoring problem, not a one-time opinion
India's tariff and exemption architecture has been rebuilt in the space of a year, and more is scheduled. A rate confirmed last quarter can be wrong this quarter. An opinion filed and forgotten is a liability waiting to surface.
That's why we don't sell a one-off PDF. We classify, then we watch — matching every change to your catalogue and re-doing the arithmetic before it hits your bill of entry.
Classify a product right now
One product, one instant read: ITC-HS 8-digit code, the indicative duty stack, GST, possible FTA routes and the compliance flags it triggers — with the GRI reasoning shown. Indicative only, not expert-signed. It's the free version of what we do at catalogue scale.
Single-SKU HS Classifier
One product per submission · India-first · results in ~15 seconds
What expert-signed classification actually delivers
The free tool gives you one indicative read. The enterprise service turns it into a defensible, monitored, money-saving classification programme across your whole catalogue.
Five blocks of output — on every SKU
Inputs & extraction
Every input captured, key attributes extracted, and the missing duty-determinative facts flagged — so nothing is classified on a guess.
Classification with GRI reasoning
ITC-HS 8-digit, candidates considered, the GRI path walked in order, and a plain-English rationale citing the governing notes.
Import duty stack
BCD, SWS, AIDC, Health Cess and IGST, with the total effective duty computed exactly — and ₹/unit where price is known.
Opportunity & compliance
FTA routes by origin with their rule-of-origin conditions, and the licences and clearances the product triggers.
Risk & action
A risk rating and a specific recommended action — from "accept & file" to "file a CAAR advance ruling" — with the exact information needed for any grey area.
Three value engines
Duty savings & FTA arbitrage
We quantify preferential-rate opportunities across your origins — always with the rule-of-origin and CAROTAR 2020 documentation cost stated, so the saving is bankable, not a headline number.
Compliance shield
Every licence, QCO and clearance the classification triggers, surfaced early — so a BIS or WPC requirement never ambushes a shipment at the port.
Always-on monitoring
Notifications, Budget changes, GST moves and FTA events matched to your SKUs, the duty recomputed, and an alert issued within a 48-hour SLA from publication.
Reliability & governance
How we engage
Prove it on a slice
Up to 200 SKUs, ~2 weeks, fixed fee. Expert-signed classifications, duty stacks and the savings we find — before you commit further.
Classify the catalogue
The full register classified, duty-mapped and FTA-optimised, with the reasoning trail and licence map on every line.
Keep it live
Continuous regulatory watch with the 48-hour alert SLA, quarterly duty-optimisation reviews, and HS 2028 readiness.
HS classification, answered
The free tool gives you an instant, AI-generated indicative classification and duty view for a single product — no sign-up, no charge. The enterprise service adds expert sign-off by a licensed customs specialist, rates verified against the live tariff and notifications on your transaction date, quantified FTA savings, licensing execution, and 48-hour change monitoring across your whole catalogue.
It walks the General Rules of Interpretation (GRI 1→6) in order and classifies to an ITC-HS 8-digit line where the facts allow, dropping to a confident 6-digit where they don't. It's a strong first read — but indicative only. It can be wrong where duty-determinative facts (composition %, principal function, retail-set contents) are missing, which is exactly when it lowers its confidence and tells you precisely what it needs to firm the code up.
No. This tool is not legal advice, not an expert-signed opinion, and not a customs ruling. Binding classification certainty in India is available only through a CAAR advance ruling, which is valid for five years (extendable). Where a product sits in a genuine grey area, the tool is designed to say so and point you to the CAAR route.
The more duty-determinative detail, the tighter the code: material and composition percentages, the product's principal function, how it's sold (retail set or bulk), power source, and target user. For textiles, knit-vs-woven and fibre split matter; for footwear, upper and sole material; for supplements, whether therapeutic claims are made. A product image and a product page URL (as reference text) help too.
The free tool is India-first. The enterprise service extends the same monitoring loop to any lane you trade on — US, EU, UK, GCC and more — adding each destination or source country's official tariff sources to the sweep, while India remains the default depth and country packs activate on need.
Regulatory changes — CBIC notifications, Budget measures, GST rate moves, FTA entry-into-force and staging cuts, anti-dumping duties, QCOs — are matched to your SKUs, the duty is recomputed with the working shown, and you get an alert within a 48-hour SLA from publication. Every alert is version-stamped against a knowledge snapshot so it holds up in an audit months later.
No. The free tool processes your input to generate the single result on screen and does not retain product inputs beyond the request. We log only anonymised counts (for rate-limiting and to know the tool is being used) — never your product descriptions or images. Enterprise SKU registers are handled separately under client confidentiality.
The whole catalogue —
with duty savings
and monitoring
Expert-signed classifications with verified live rates, quantified FTA savings, licensing execution, and 48-hour change monitoring across every SKU you trade. Start with a fixed-fee pilot on up to 200 SKUs.
Book a pilot
Tell us about your catalogue — we'll come back with scope and a fixed fee.