A tariff concession is worth what you can evidence. Eligibility is published; origin is something you have to demonstrate, and HMRC and CBIC verify it separately from the declaration. A four-minute executive assessment of where you stand on both.
Eight sectors · 28 product categories · including the four where the answer is no
Does your product qualify. What is it worth. Can you prove origin. Work through them in order — each tab carries forward into the next.
Select the closest match to your product. Includes lines that are excluded, quota-capped or phased — not just the ones that won.
Enter your annual shipment value. The model applies the CETA rate against the duty you pay today.
CETA preference applies only to originating goods. Answer honestly — a failed origin claim is worse than never claiming.
Is the product wholly obtained or produced entirely in the exporting country, from originating materials only?
Do all non-originating materials undergo a change in tariff classification during your manufacturing process?
Have you calculated your qualifying value content, and do you know which threshold your product's rule actually sets?
There is no universal QVC percentage under CETA. The threshold is set by the product-specific rule in Annex 3A for your line, and varies with whether you use ex-works or FOB pricing and the build-up or build-down method. Anyone quoting you a single number across all products is guessing.
Do you have costed bills of materials with country of origin for every input, retained and auditable?
Does your process go beyond packaging, labelling, dilution or simple assembly?
If you don't, the Navigator will tell you so in about forty seconds rather than wasting your afternoon.
Typically read by Export Directors · Commercial Heads · CFOs · Trade Compliance · India Entry teams
Most tariff calculators only tell you about the lines that won. This one covers exclusions, quotas and staged cuts too — because "your product isn't in the deal" is an answer worth having on day one rather than month six.
Partly modelled means the sector is liberalised but published rates are ceilings across wide product ranges rather than figures you can apply to a line. The tool says so instead of guessing. Metals, gems and the excluded lines are covered inside the categories above.
The Navigator exists because CETA created a specific version of that problem. A tariff line looks like a number. It behaves like a supply chain decision — and the people who get it wrong will mostly get it wrong confidently, on the basis of a headline rate that didn't apply to them.
Northstar Bharat's UK–India Trade Desk. The firm was founded by a group of international business professionals with over 50 years of combined experience across trade, investment, market entry and international business development — spanning the UK, India and beyond. We have sat in the operator's chair and the advisor's, on both sides of the border.
The desk sits inside our India Entry practice. Tariffs are rarely the whole question: the companies that ask us about duty usually end up asking about partners, entity structure and whether the market wants them at all. The Navigator is the front door to that conversation, not a product in its own right.
We work globally. India is the corridor we know best.
Confidence varies, and we mark it. Process and Rules of Origin statements are taken from DBT guidance and CBIC Circular 33/2026-Customs — primary sources. Tariff rates come from the Commerce Ministry list carried by multiple outlets. Figures introduced with "reported" rest on a single press account of a ministry briefing and have not been corroborated against the schedule; treat them as directional. Rates are headline published figures, current as at 15 July 2026 — the day the agreement entered into force. There is no universal value-content threshold under CETA: the requirement is set per product by the rule in Annex 3A, and varies with the valuation method used. Process references verified against DBT guidance and CBIC Circular 33/2026-Customs.
The UK–India CETA is a complex agreement, and this tool is not a substitute for reading your own tariff line. The figures here are drawn from official government policy documents, ministry briefings and published guidance — the best information available at the time of writing. They are headline rates: ceilings that span wide product ranges, not rates that apply to a specific line. Your product's actual treatment depends on its precise classification, the product-specific rule in Annex 3A, and the staging category that applies to it. Several lines in this tool are marked as unmodellable for exactly this reason.
This is an indicative model, not a customs ruling, not legal advice, and not a basis for claiming preference. Origin status remains separately verifiable by HMRC and CBIC — authentication of a declaration confirms it is genuine, not that the goods originate. Users are responsible for their own due diligence and for verifying their position against the agreement text and current official guidance before acting. Northstar Bharat accepts no liability for decisions taken on the basis of this tool. Where we are engaged to verify a position, our responsibility is set out in the engagement terms — and that is a different thing from a free calculator on a website.
Rates current as at entry into force, 15 July 2026. Schedules change. If you are reading this materially later, assume it has drifted.
Everything you've run, written up as a position summary — what you checked, what it's worth, where the risk sits, and what the caveats are. Print it, send it, or bring it to the conversation that follows.
Free, no email required. It downloads to your machine and we never see it.
A rate is not a saving until the origin holds.— Northstar Bharat
Should we claim preference on this product, and would it survive verification?
Billed in sterling or rupees depending on where you are — each price is set for its market, not converted at the day's rate, so neither of us is exposed to the currency. £500 covers one product line. Complex bills of materials, multiple lines, or a portfolio review are scoped and priced before we start — we will tell you the number before you commit, not after. If the answer is that you do not qualify, you get that in writing, and it is worth more than the fee: a rejected claim costs the duty back plus the credibility.
Does the corridor work for us at all, and how would we enter it?
Three core workstreams fixed at the outset. Modules — state incentives, localisation economics, investment facilitation, post-entry support — added only where the engagement needs them, and priced before they start. Sits alongside The Bearings, our entry diagnostic, rather than replacing it.
We have decided. Now open the doors.
Where the work needs a customs broker, a tax adviser or a company secretary, we coordinate rather than pretend. Knowing which specialist to bring in, and when, is part of what you are paying for.
Each tier answers a different question. Most companies only need the first. We will tell you which one you are, and we would rather scope narrow and extend than sell three tiers and staff one.
On government engagement: we advise on how to approach the relevant authorities and programmes, and make introductions where we hold the relationship. We do not claim access to HMRC, CBIC, DBT or Invest India that we do not have — and we will tell you when a door is one you have to open yourself.
We verify your position against the tariff line and the applicable product-specific rule, then tell you plainly whether the saving is real and what it takes to hold it. Roughly half the enquiries we take don't need us — either the answer is obvious or the volume doesn't justify the work. We tell those people so, and we'd rather do that in the first conversation than the third.