Industries · Automotive parts
Clearing the parts a workshop or assembler imports — not the car itself.
Shafiq Traders · Updated 13 September 2026
This is about parts and components, not vehicles: Guard Filters, Oditer Motorcycle Parts, Waheed Brothers (Pakistan) and Sohail Autos among the companies on our register. What decides a shipment is what the part actually is, whether it is supplied under a vehicle assembler's vendor programme, and whether it carries somebody else's brand — not which car it eventually fits.
Parts and components, not the car
A workshop bringing in filters, a manufacturer supplying an assembly line, a distributor stocking tyres — none of that is the personal car-import scheme, and the rules built around a single imported vehicle do not apply to any of it.
What matters here is the part itself: its classification, who it is going to, and whether the brand on it is genuine. Those questions decide the assessment far more than the make or model it eventually sits in.
What comes in, and what decides it
| What is imported | What the assessment turns on | What usually holds it up |
|---|---|---|
| Components supplied to a vehicle assembler's vendor programme | Whether the EDB vendor certificate covers this exact part | A certificate that does not match what is actually on the invoice |
| Aftermarket and branded parts | Whether the brand mark on the part matches a genuine supply chain | An IPR notice against a trademark customs is watching for |
| Filters and consumables | Classification line by line across a mixed parts shipment | One filter type sitting in the wrong heading on a long parts list |
| Tyres and rubber components | Size, construction and declared value against comparable imports | A valuation query on a bulk tyre consignment |
| Motorcycle and two-wheeler parts | Classification against the specific part, not the machine it fits | A description that names the vehicle instead of the part |
Automotive companies on our register
Every automotive parts and components company we have cleared for, from filtration to tyres.
Oditer Motorcycle Parts · Sohail Autos
The vendor programme, and the certificate it runs on
A company supplying parts to a vehicle assembler under the industry's vendor and localisation arrangements can claim a concessionary rate, but only against a certificate the Engineering Development Board has issued for that specific part. The certificate is not a blanket approval for the vendor — it is tied to the part.
We check the certificate against what is actually on the invoice before the declaration goes in. A vendor holding a certificate for one component and a shipment carrying another is not a paperwork mismatch customs will wave through.
We will not clear a branded part on the strength of an invoice alone if the mark does not sit right. Customs holds counterfeit auto parts under the Trademarks Ordinance, 2001, and once a rights-holder has filed a notice against a shipment, no agent can talk it off. That is not a service we sell around.
Questions
What automotive parts importers ask us
Contact
Tell us what is coming.
Give us the product, the port and roughly when the vessel is due, and we will tell you what the clearance involves and what it will cost.