Send iPhone USA to India, Custom Duty, GST Tax Calculator
Sending iPhone to India is expensive (customs duty + GST Tax) than buying in India. Mark as Gift does not help. Carrying and not declaring at Indian airport custom evades duty but not safe.
The cost of shipping the iPhone from the USA to India is USD $150. Buying the iPhone from the USA and shipping to India is not cheap after adding custom duties and GST tax.
Use this Calculator to find Indian customs duty on importing phone from China, US, Canada, UK, or Australia. You can calculate the costs involved for iPhone & iPhone Plus models:
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You have to pay for shipping, insurance, customs duty in India along with GST tax for sending any phone including Google Pixel, Samsung Note, Samsung S series to India.
You may be paying much more for a smartphone if you decide to buy from the USA and ship it to yourself in India, the legal way.
Custom Duty, Taxes in India
Indian Customs duties and GST tax are due when you import mobile phones under the cell phone category.
Indian customs will find the CIF value for the iPhone or mobile that you are importing to India.
The CIF value is the price paid for the goods plus the cost of transportation, loading, unloading, handling, Insurance, and associated costs incidental to the delivery of goods from the place of export to a place of import.
All other charges are calculated on this CIF value. In our example, this CIF value is the total money that you have spent on the item in the USA including all sales tax.
We have made all calculations and provided information to the best of our knowledge and research. Please correct or share more information about it if you had any experience of sending a mobile phone to India from the USA.
We would suggest buying directly from India. If you carefully understand the calculations, you are approximately paying about 34% extra for the phone if you import.
FAQ
Any person can send a mobile as a gift to India. It can be your business associate, friends, relatives, companies abroad can send mobile as a gift to India.
No relationship proof is required.
The Indian receiver is required to pay the customs duty and taxes on imported mobile.
You can pay iPhone custom duty yourself at the airport or your shipping company can pay and then you can pay them.
When the shipment reaches India, your postal company like FedEx would run it through customs. The customs officer would create a custom invoice and the postal company would either call you to keep the money ready or ask you to deposit the money first.
Once you deposit the money, you will be handed over your package. Most of the companies these days like BlueDart, FedEx, etc. have streamlined the process.
They would call you before coming to deliver the package and ask to keep the money ready. You pay the customs duty to the delivery boy itself.
The mail company can take 3 to 10 days to deliver your mobile from the USA to India. There can be delays caused by custom checking in India.
GST tax is applied to imported mobile phones in India including the iPhone.
GST is a short form of Goods and Services tax.
Sales tax is not charged on imported mobile phone in India.
You cannot avoid Indian custom duty by marking the mobile package as a gift when shipping to India.
Only gifts up-to INR 10,000 worth of single package is allowed as custom free in India.
The value of 10K is converted value after applying the USD to the INR exchange rate. Postal charges or air freight or insurance is not taken into account to find the value of the product.
NOTE: If the value of the gifts received is more than INR 10,000, the receiver has to pay Customs duty on the whole consignment, even if the goods were received free.
You have to pay customs duty on a mobile phone while receiving it in India even when you won it in any online competition or lottery or anything.
You can carry the new iPhone in your pocket but custom duty is required to be paid if the total value is greater than 10,000 Indian rupees.
You can carry mobile but if you do not declare it on the customs form, you may have to pay a penalty if you are caught.
You have to pay an 18% GST tax on imported mobiles in India.
