HS Code 2524 90 14: Amosite

Amosite imported into India falls under tariff item 2524 90 14. The standard rate of basic customs duty in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 is 10%, and integrated tax is 5%. Below is the whole bill worked at an assessable value of ₹10,00,000, with the base each levy is charged on.

Import policy: Restricted. This tariff item is listed as restricted for import. It needs a licence or authorisation from the DGFT before it can be cleared, and the figures below assume nothing about whether one has been granted.

Duty and tax on ₹10,00,0002524 90 1416.55% of value
Basic customs duty10% of the assessable value₹1,00,000
Social Welfare Surcharge10% of the basic customs duty₹10,000
IGST5% of value plus the duties above₹55,500
Payable with a duty-credit scripbasic customs duty only₹1,00,000
Payable in cashsurcharge, integrated tax and cess₹65,500
Total duty and tax on this Bill of Entry₹1,65,500
Worked at the standard First Schedule rate. No exemption notification is applied.Change the value

Where tariff item 2524 90 14 sits in the schedule

LevelDescription
25Chapter 25: Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
2524Heading 2524: Asbestos
2524 90Sub-heading 2524 90: Other
2524 90 14Amosite. Unit: kg.. Import policy: Restricted

Heading 2524 holds 18 tariff items in this dataset and every one of them carries the same standard rate of 10%, so within this heading the choice of eight digit line does not change the duty.

Duty on an import of this item

Put your own assessable value in and the whole stack re-works on this line's own rates: basic customs duty at 10%, the Social Welfare Surcharge charged on that duty rather than on the value, and integrated tax at 5% on the value plus both. Assessable value is cost, insurance and freight plus landing charges where they apply, not the invoice value on its own.

RateLevyAmount
10%Basic customs duty, of the assessable value₹1,00,000
10%Social Welfare Surcharge, of the basic customs duty₹10,000
5%IGST, of value plus the duties above₹55,500
16.55%Total duty and tax, as a share of the assessable value₹1,65,500
₹1,00,000Payable with a duty-credit scripOf this, the basic customs duty of ₹1,00,000 can be paid with duty credit scrips. The remaining ₹65,500 is paid in cash.

RoDTEP on this tariff line, the export side

Appendix 4R carries no entry for tariff item 2524 90 14, so an export on this line earns nothing under RoDTEP. That is an answer rather than a gap: whole chapters of the tariff sit outside the scheme, and an exporter told so plainly is better served than one shown a hedge.

Notification 74/2025-26 ran the scheme to 30 September 2026, which has passed, so check DGFT for a continuation notification before relying on the figure above. Rates come from Appendix 4R and Appendix 4RE as DGFT publishes them. Work the entitlement on your own FOB value and quantity.

Preferential rates by origin

Where a trade agreement covers this line, the preferential rate replaces the basic customs duty rate, and it pulls the surcharge and the integrated tax down with it. At 0% for ASEAN countries, the whole bill on ₹10,00,000 falls from ₹1,65,500 to ₹50,000.

ASEAN countries0%
Australia0%
Japan0%
Least Developed Countries0%
Malaysia0%
Nepal0%
Philippines0%
SAFTA (LDC) countries0%
Sri Lanka0%
the republic of Korea0%
United Arab Emirats0%
SAFTA countries5%
APTA countries5.5%

A preference is never automatic. It applies against a valid certificate of origin, and the Customs (Administration of Rules of Origin under Trade Agreements) Rules, 2020 put the burden of proving origin on the importer. These are the 2025 schedule.

Other tariff items under heading 2524

CodeDescriptionDutyIGSTExport rate
2524 10 10Crocidolite10%5%n/a
2524 90 11Chrysotile10%5%n/a
2524 90 12Amphibole10%5%n/a
2524 90 13Crysolite10%5%n/a
2524 90 19Other10%5%n/a
2524 90 21Chrysotile10%5%n/a
2524 90 22Amphibole10%5%n/a
2524 90 23Crysolite10%5%n/a
2524 90 24Amosite10%5%n/a
2524 90 29Other10%5%n/a
2524 90 31Chrysotile10%5%n/a
2524 90 32Amphibole10%5%n/a
2524 90 33Crysolite10%5%n/a
2524 90 34Amosite10%5%n/a
2524 90 39Other10%5%n/a
2524 90 91Waste10%5%n/a
2524 90 99Other10%5%n/a

What this means in plain English

Bring in ₹10,00,000 of amosite and customs will ask for ₹1,65,500, which is 16.55% of what the consignment is assessed at. That is not one charge. It is four, and each is charged on a base that includes the ones before it.

  • Basic customs duty, ₹1,00,000 at 10% of the assessable value.
  • Social Welfare Surcharge, ₹10,000 at 10% of that duty rather than of the value, under section 110 of the Finance Act, 2018.
  • Integrated tax, the large one: ₹55,500 at 5% on the value plus the duties above it, under section 3(8) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975. Carried under CBIC notification 9/2025-IT(R), schedule I.
Read the duty rate as a ceiling, not a bill. 10% is the standard rate in the First Schedule, before any exemption notification, and the total above carries no Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess, no duty stated per unit and no trade remedy duty. What is and is not inside these figures, written once for the whole chapter.

Paying part of this with a duty-credit scrip

Of the ₹1,65,500 above, exactly ₹1,00,000 can be paid with a RoDTEP or RoSCTL duty-credit scrip instead of cash, because Regulation 6(1) of the Electronic Duty Credit Ledger Regulations, 2021 confines the credit in an e-scrip to duties of customs specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975. The remaining ₹65,500 is paid in cash.

A scrip bought below face value therefore saves that discount on ₹1,00,000, not on ₹1,65,500. How the buy side works, or read what a duty-credit scrip is end to end.

Where these rates come from

The First Schedule states the duty on this line as "10%". Integrated tax is carried under CBIC notification 9/2025-IT(R). How the figures in this chapter are checked, and when they were last checked is in the meta line at the top of this page.

This is the tariff arithmetic on a published rate, not an assessment. Goods are assessed by the proper officer under section 17 of the Customs Act, 1962, and valuation, exemption notifications, anti-dumping and safeguard duties can all change what is finally payable. A wrong tariff line makes every number on this page wrong together, so this is not classification advice.

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For importers

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