Customs duty on Lighting or visual signalling equipment fo motor vehicles in Nepal

Q: What is the customs duty on Lighting or visual signalling equipment fo motor vehicles in Nepal?

The customs duty on Lighting or visual signalling equipment fo motor vehicles (HS 8512.20.00) is 15% (general). From India or another SAARC country under SAFTA, with a certificate of origin, it is 7.25%. On top of customs duty, 13% VAT applies on the CIF value plus duty.

Q: What is the HS code for Lighting or visual signalling equipment fo motor vehicles in Nepal?

The Nepal customs HS code for Lighting or visual signalling equipment fo motor vehicles is 8512.20.00 (chapter 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles).

Lighting or visual signalling equipment fo motor vehicles is classified under HS code 8512.20.00 (chapter 85, Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles). It attracts 15% customs duty (general), or 7.25% from India & SAARC under SAFTA, plus 13% VAT on the CIF value and duty.

15%General duty

7.25%India & SAARC (SAFTA)

13%VAT

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Landed cost — worked example

For a shipment with a CIF value of Rs 100,000 (cost + insurance + freight to the Nepal border), the customs duty and VAT work out as:

Origin	Customs duty	Duty amount	VAT (13%)	Landed cost
General (any origin)	15%	Rs 15,000	Rs 14,950	Rs 129,950
India & SAARC (with SAFTA certificate of origin)	7.25%	Rs 7,250	Rs 13,942	Rs 121,192

Importing from India or SAARC under SAFTA (with a certificate of origin) cuts the duty from 15% to 7.25% — about Rs 8,758 less on this Rs 100,000 example, once the VAT on the saved duty is counted. How SAFTA & the certificate of origin work →

Excise duty, the road-development fee and other charges apply to specific goods (vehicles, alcohol, tobacco, petroleum…) and are not in the figure above. Open the full calculator →

Nepal’s imports of Lighting or visual signalling equipment fo motor vehicles

Nepal imported about Rs 3.06 Arab of Lighting or visual signalling equipment fo motor vehicles in FY 2082/83, mainly from India, China, Thailand.

Source country	Import value (FY 2082/83)
India	Rs 54.54 Crore
China	Rs 18.30 Crore
Thailand	Rs 1.10 Crore
Japan	Rs 58.3 Lakh
Korea, Republic of	Rs 34.7 Lakh

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Full landed-cost calculator Open 8512.20.00 in the tariff Chapter 85