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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