Customs and import support for distributors

With bonded storage, you pay duty when you remove goods from the warehouse, so you can clear stock in line with your orders.

Yes. Cleared goods can move straight into a Lozy warehouse and stay there until you need them.

If you’re the importer of electronics, batteries or goods in plastic packaging, you’ll generally need EPR registration as a producer.

That’s how Lozy is set up. Clearance and warehousing sit with the same team, so there’s no handover gap.

The duty stays out of stock you have not sold yet. Goods enter the bond with duty unpaid and are assessed batch by batch as they leave, so slow lines do not tie up money that faster ones need. What you pay in the meantime is storage, and the desk shows both sides of that trade in the quote. Nothing forces the whole consignment out at once either: you release what the market is buying, and the rest keeps waiting. The slower the line, the more the arrangement earns its keep.

When stock turns over months rather than days, usually yes — the duty on unsold goods stays in the business, and the record-keeping is the desk’s to run: into-bond entries, ex-bond clearances, duty challans. Weigh it honestly: bonded storage rents space, and the comparison is that rent against the cash you would have paid at the port. Run the comparison per product family rather than per company: a catalogue usually carries both kinds of stock. The desk will lay the two schedules side by side for any consignment you are weighing.

Yes — that is the point of the flow. Most bulk imports India sees arrive as one entry and leave as a series of releases, each with its own duty payment and invoice. Removals can follow purchase orders, your own stock plan or distributor dispatches, so the bridge between a large landing and steady sales becomes a schedule. Batch sizes are not fixed in advance — thin out releases in a soft month and speed them up in a strong one. The desk sets the calendar and adjusts it as orders land.

Each ex-bond clearance carries the taxes due on that batch, and your GSTIN goes on the entry, so input credit follows the releases that actually happen. Keeping releases and sales invoices in step stops credit from trailing the stock. The desk prepares the documents on the same cycle, so nothing waits on a month-end reconciliation. If a buyer’s GSTIN changes mid-season, tell the desk before the next release and the records follow. Auditors ask for the chain from entry to invoice, and it will already be in one folder.

No — the desk stays on the file through storage. Stock is held in our space, releases are prepared as they are approved, and the records needed for GST credit and audits are maintained without a handover gap between the broker and the warehouse. That is what the one-team arrangement is for. Compliance does not pause at the warehouse door either: labels, registrations and serial records stay in the same hands that filed the entry. When a release needs a quick review of paperwork, it happens in-house, not across two vendors.

Yes, and that is how a bonded flow is set up: a release calendar drafted against your sales plan, then adjusted as orders firm up. You approve each removal, duty is paid on it and the stock moves out. After a season or two the rhythm is right there in the records, which makes planning the next one easier. Two things make that work in practice: a standing release rule agreed in advance, and a named person on your side the desk can call.