Packaged Commodities - Import

General notes regarding import policy, of ITC(HS) Classifications of Export and Import Items:

5.          All such packaged products, which are subject to provisions of  the Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977 when produced/ packed/ sold in domestic market,   shall be subject to compliance of all the provisions of the said rules, when imported into India.  The compliance of these shall be ensured before the import consignment of such commodities is cleared by Customs for home consumption.  All prepackaged commodities, imported into India, shall in particular carry the following declarations: 

(a)        Name and address of the importer;

(b)        Generic or common name of the commodity packed;

(c)         Net quantity in terms of standard unit of weights and measures. If the net quantity in the imported package is given in any other unit, its equivalent in terms of standard units shall be declared by the importer;

(d)        Month and year of packing in which the commodity is manufactured or packed or imported;

(e)        Maximum retail sale price at which the commodity in packaged form may be sold to the ultimate consumer.  This price shall include all taxes local or otherwise, freight, transport charges, commission payable to dealers, and all charges towards advertising, delivery, packing, forwarding and the like, as the case may be.

Right Informer’s Comment: Though industrial consumers are exempted from the provisions of Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977, certain industries and Automobile Industry in particular, import many components, a part of which is sold as ‘Spares’.  These industries do not appear to fall under the exempted category and hence have to fulfil all the requirements of the above Rules.   Accordingly, in order to safeguard revenue, it would be appropriate to resort to Provisional Assessment and as and when the entire consignment is used up either in production or sold as spares, the Provisional Assessment could be made final.

(b) Industrial Consumer – Those consumers who buy packaged commodities directly from the manufacturers/packers for using the product in their industry for production, etc.'.