The Directorate General of Foreign Trade vide Notification dated 12th December 2019, has amended para 2.25 of Foreign Trade Policy (FTP), 2015-2020 thereby prohibiting the import of goods as gifts through e-commerce portal.
The Import of goods was earlier free and not subject to customs duty and through this revised policy the import of goods including those purchased from e-commerce portals, through post or courier, where Customs clearance is sought as gifts, except for life saving drugs / medicines and Rakhi (but not gifts related to Rakhi) is prohibited.
In case of Rakhi, no duty will be collected if the amount of duty leviable is equal to or less than Rs 100. Further import of goods as gifts with payment of full applicable duty is permissible.
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