Friends,
I ordered E3 Flasher from Amazon. Now after a few days I got a letter at my house from the Foreign Post Office, Ahmedabad saying that my package is detained (Detention cum show cause notice) and I have to submit some documents (like Commercial invoice, payment details, IEC code, literature, End use certificate on company letterhead, etc; basically what you need to submit incase you have a commercial establishment/purpose).
It also has a form attached that says "I hereby declare that the aforesaid package was sent by my relative/friend and contains the following". Then there is a table where we can mention details, then it says "By providing this declaration I agree to accept the show cause notice in my name and to pay any duty, fine or penalty levied by the authority". Basically it said that if I agree to this they will issue me a show cause notice.
My friend spoke to the post office people and they are not clearly informing anything. On one side they are saying they don't know what it is so can't confirm if any duty or penalty will be applicable. On other hand they say that if I submit the documents and the declaration and if they levy any penalty then I HAVE to pay it. Else I can forfeit the package right now and it will be returned to the sender. Further, they are claiming that the custom duty will be 41% !!!!
Please suggest how I should go about this. Paying custom duty is ok but penalty would be too much. A $114 E3 Flasher will in the end cost Rs. 20,000/-.
Any insight on how best to get out of this mess and what I should ideally do in this regard will be highly appreciated. Also, would this affect any more products that I order from outside India in the future?
Thanks,
Moshel
I ordered E3 Flasher from Amazon. Now after a few days I got a letter at my house from the Foreign Post Office, Ahmedabad saying that my package is detained (Detention cum show cause notice) and I have to submit some documents (like Commercial invoice, payment details, IEC code, literature, End use certificate on company letterhead, etc; basically what you need to submit incase you have a commercial establishment/purpose).
It also has a form attached that says "I hereby declare that the aforesaid package was sent by my relative/friend and contains the following". Then there is a table where we can mention details, then it says "By providing this declaration I agree to accept the show cause notice in my name and to pay any duty, fine or penalty levied by the authority". Basically it said that if I agree to this they will issue me a show cause notice.
My friend spoke to the post office people and they are not clearly informing anything. On one side they are saying they don't know what it is so can't confirm if any duty or penalty will be applicable. On other hand they say that if I submit the documents and the declaration and if they levy any penalty then I HAVE to pay it. Else I can forfeit the package right now and it will be returned to the sender. Further, they are claiming that the custom duty will be 41% !!!!
Please suggest how I should go about this. Paying custom duty is ok but penalty would be too much. A $114 E3 Flasher will in the end cost Rs. 20,000/-.
Any insight on how best to get out of this mess and what I should ideally do in this regard will be highly appreciated. Also, would this affect any more products that I order from outside India in the future?
Thanks,
Moshel
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