Export to Asia

SUDAN GOLD delivered a 28 kg gold consignment from Ghana’s Western Region to Mumbai, aligning documentation with India’s revised import duty structure and providing full origin proof to avoid customs valuation disputes.

Challenge

India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade updated gold import duty rules, requiring detailed breakdowns of contained metal value, origin certificates signed by Ghanaian authorities, and assay reports in metric units. The buyer faced potential 18% duty reassessment without compliant paperwork.

Solution

We restructured the commercial invoice to itemize contained gold value, obtained a countersigned certificate of origin from Ghana’s Minerals Commission in Takoradi, and converted all assay data to grams and percentages. Mumbai customs accepted the file on first review; no duty penalty applied.