Clear faster. Pay the lowest lawful duty. Prove every rupee of it.
FDP Connect is import-compliance software for Indian importers. It drafts your Bill of Entry, compares standard, FTA-preferential and concessional-rate duty on every line, and keeps the CAROTAR, IGCR and bonded-manufacturing paper trail audit-ready, so the duty you save actually sticks, and the goods clear while the container is still worth clearing.
One consignment. Full duty paid. A claim you can't defend.
Follow one container landing at Nhava Sheva, before FDP Connect. Watch each hand-off leak duty you overpaid, savings you couldn't prove, and clocks you never saw start.
- OVERPAID
The concession nobody checked
An FTA rate existed for this line, but nobody ran the rule of origin, so your CHA filed it at the standard rate to be safe. The Bill of Entry is assessed. The moment has passed.
5–10% of the invoice, paid to Customs, and unrecoverable the day the BoE was finalised.
- QUERIED
The claim that collapsed at assessment
You claimed the preferential rate. The appraiser asks for the origin evidence: RVC working, the exact criterion, Form I. You have a supplier's PDF and a guess.
Provisional duty and a bond posted under CAROTAR, while the container sits and the query ages.
- DEMURRAGE
The Bill of Entry waiting on a spreadsheet
Your supplier emailed five documents stitched into one PDF. Someone re-types every line into the broker's system before the BoE can even be drafted.
Free days burn while data is re-keyed. Then detention and demurrage start the meter.
- LAPSED
The end-use clock you forgot was running
You imported at the concessional IGCR rate against a bond, with a one-year end-use clock ticking from clearance. No one reconciled the lot. The window quietly closed.
§28AA interest at ~15% p.a. plus penalty: the concession clawed back on goods you already consumed.
- UNMATCHED
A certificate tied to nothing
The supplier's Certificate of Origin lands as a loose attachment. Which invoice line it actually justifies is anyone's guess, until an auditor asks you to map evidence to claim.
Five years of retention obligation, and no defensible link between the paper and the benefit.
- MISCLASSIFIED
One wrong digit, the wrong tariff
An 8-digit HSN typed from memory drops the goods into the wrong tariff line. Nobody catches it until a demand notice does, or until you realise you've been overpaying, shipment after shipment.
Short-paid duty becomes interest and penalty; over-paid duty is money you never even knew you left behind.
Every one of these traces back to the same thing: a record nobody could trust, and paper nobody could check. Here's the other way.
Your goal, delivered
Per-line duty intelligence compares the standard rate against the FTA-preferential and concessional (IGCR) rate, showing the duty saved struck through per line, with every HSN validated against the ITC-HS schedule so a mistyped code never drops goods into the wrong tariff. The regime picture (anti-dumping, safeguard, SVB related-party valuation, Project Imports) stays in view so nothing surprises you at assessment.
OCR reads the supplier's stitched-together PDF into one structured record that drafts the Bill of Entry, its type (Home Consumption, warehousing, or an Advance Authorisation / EPCG leg) derived from the item-level scheme links, then signs it with DSC or Aadhaar eSign. No re-typing while the container accrues demurrage, and cross-document checks catch invoice / packing-list mismatches before the appraiser does.
CAROTAR-ready origin checks verify the supplier's Certificate of Origin against the actual rule (RVC %, CTC, wholly-obtained), with the Form I confirmation flagged and the 5-year retention clock tracked per shipment. Supplier CoOs are OCR-ingested, classified and matched to the exact invoice line they justify, so a benefit claimed is a benefit you can prove.
IGCR lot-by-lot end-use clocks and bond balances are tracked in real time with §28AA interest exposure flagged before it accrues; MOOWR / Section 65 bonded manufacturing defers BCD and IGST on imported inputs with FIFO ex-bond clearance and B-17 bond-utilisation monitoring; and the scheme bonds behind EPCG, IGCR and warehousing are cross-linked to your Bank Guarantee register with 30-day expiry alerts.
Verify a supplier's Bill of Lading or Certificate of Origin against the chain in 30 seconds (no login) before you release payment. Issue import Letters of Credit under UCP 600, hedge payables with FX forwards, and let SCOMET dual-use screening plus HSN-scoped Regulatory Watch keep import controls on your radar. Underwrite marine cover on the same verifiable shipment record.
Built around how you work
Landed-cost & duty intelligence
Per-line comparison of standard, FTA-preferential and concessional (IGCR) duty, with each HSN validated against the ITC-HS schedule and the duty saved shown line-by-line, so you never overpay MFN on a line an FTA covers, or misclassify into the wrong tariff.
Bill of Entry, drafted not re-keyed
OCR turns the supplier's documents into one structured record that drafts the BoE (Home Consumption, warehousing, or an AA / EPCG import leg), DSC or Aadhaar-signed. The same engine flags cross-document mismatches before assessment, not after demurrage starts.
Origin & duty-deferral compliance
CAROTAR Form I and 5-year retention, IGCR end-use clocks and §28AA interest, MOOWR / Section 65 bonded-manufacturing deferral, bonded-warehouse §61 interest and B-17 bond utilisation: every clock and bond tracked and audit-ready, with SCOMET import screening and HSN-scoped Regulatory Watch alongside.
Verify before you pay
Confirm a supplier's Bill of Lading or Certificate of Origin against the chain in 30 seconds with no login, take eBL title as consignee, issue import LCs and hedge payables. Trust the paper before you release the money.
- Bill of Entry drafting (Home Consumption / warehousing / ex-bond)
- Per-line duty intelligence: standard (MFN) vs FTA-preferential vs concessional
- FTA / preferential import claims (RVC %, CTC, wholly-obtained)
- CAROTAR 2020: Form I, supplier-origin verification, 5-year retention
- IGCR: end-use clock, bond balance, §28AA interest exposure
- MOOWR / Section 65 bonded manufacturing: BCD + IGST deferral on inputs
- Bonded-warehouse ledger: §61 interest, FIFO ex-bond, B-17 bond
- Advance Authorisation import leg: duty-free inputs, pre-import BoE sequencing
- EPCG import leg: capital goods at zero/concessional duty, bond & BG linkage
- Project Imports regime awareness
- SVB: Special Valuation Branch (related-party valuation) awareness
- Anti-dumping / safeguard / countervailing duty in the per-HSN picture
- HSN classification & ITC-HS validation
- Supplier Certificate-of-Origin OCR ingestion (matched to invoice line)
- SCOMET import-side dual-use screening
- PULSE weekly stock disclosure (Essential Commodities Act)
- Regulatory Watch: importer + HSN-scoped updates
- Bank Guarantees for scheme bonds (EPCG / IGCR / warehouse)
- Import Letters of Credit (UCP 600) & documentary collections (URC 522)
- FX forwards & options for import payables
- Marine cargo insurance for import legs (CIF / CIP)
- Chain verification of supplier BL / CoO before payment (no login)
- Electronic Bill of Lading custody: take title as consignee / endorsee
Make every duty saving defensible, and every clearance faster.
Walk a real Bill of Entry, a preferential claim and an IGCR bond through FDP Connect in a 20-minute demo.
Free to start, no card · your first Certificate of Origin is on us · you approve every filing.
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