Import duty
What it costs to bring it in.
Duty is not one number. It is a stack — customs duty, additional customs duty, regulatory duty where it applies, sales tax, and income tax — and which stack you land on is decided by the heading your goods are classified under. These pages work that through product by product.
- 01What it costs to bring parts in for a workshop or an assembly line, not a car.Auto parts
- 02What a dye or textile chemical pays at the border, and why the invoice does not decide it.Chemicals and dyes
- 03What customs charges on cosmetics, and which regulator signs off before we get there.Cosmetics
- 04What a dyestuff shipment pays at the border, class by class.Dyes
- 05The duty on a fabric shipment depends on what it's woven from, not what the invoice calls it.Fabric
- 06What a generator actually pays at import — it is not one number, and it does not scale the way you'd expect.Generators
- 07What customs charges on scrap, and why the auto-parts line isn't priced like scrap.Scrap
- 08What it costs to bring a lithium battery into Pakistan, and why it isn't one number.Batteries
- 09What machinery from China actually costs to bring in, and where the invoice usually goes wrong.Machinery from China
- 10What paper, board and A4 stock pay at classification, and where the weight on the invoice starts to matter.Paper
- 11What PE, PP, PVC and PET cost coming in, and why only one of them carries an anti-dumping duty.Plastics
- 12What it costs to bring a solar inverter into Pakistan, and why the brand on the box matters.Inverters
- 13What it costs to bring solar panels into Pakistan, and what changed this year.Solar panels
- 14What steel actually costs to bring in, by product, not by chapter.Steel
- 15Textile machinery can enter at zero duty — but the concession has a condition, and the condition is the whole thing.Textile machinery
- 16What a new tyre pays at the border, and why a used one does not clear at all.Tyres
- 17The lunda trade is assessed by the kilogram, not the invoice, and it is treated as the commercial import it is.Used clothing