the BLF GT customs declaration survey

Hello my friends!

Neal asked me to help him getting the custom declarations of your choice.

i am not sure if he manages to make it to the wish of everyone but different countries should be able to get different values.

please use the form below to fill in your suggestion / wish

I have no clue, i was always buying as is,GB and BG orders never had problems

Under $49 for registered

In case gt split in 2 box, i think $22.9 each box.

In Germany it would be perfect if the value was below 22€ (25:money_mouth_face:. I chose the registered mail so each package should be below that value.

I chose the registered mail to Finland and both packages value should be under 22€ each.

i didnt pay, but i will definite pay in next 2 weeks, can i take a survey ?

It’s something like $200 or under for the US. $400 if you bring stuff back from vacation. DHL and Fedex have their own processing lines at all US custom houses. I’ve had two boxes worth $5000 pass through DHL without taxes or duties, and it takes roughly 2 to 4 days for delivery from China.

So, as long as it’s $200 or under, people in the US have nothing to worry about, especially with DHL.

I put £15 on each box UK for registered to be safe

So did I

In Hungary, the value should be below 22 EUR, or 25$.

For the USA thru DHL to a residential address, Do I need to worry? I am assuming I don’t have to worry, but what have others seen?

What is the "legal top limit" in the USA to get items from China without needing to pay customs duties/taxes?

Thanks!

General EU tax limit seems to be 22€ so down payment amount of $14.96 is good number for each of packets when using the registered mail. You don`t necessarily want to use even numbers like 22 which is just the taxable limit as that may seem suspicious to customs.

I believe it’s $200. It’s convoluted though. But I’ve never had a problem with larger amounts using DHL since they have their own lines through customs. If you are flying back to the US, you are allowed up to $400 worth of stuff. Says so right on the customs entry forms they give you on the plane.

I always ask sellers to not put a price higher than 19$ on the package.
For all packages to the Netherlands I’d advice to do the same.

:+1:
And no more than $19.

In Canada, anything UNDER $20 CDN comes through without taxes or DHL brokerage fees. If declaring in US$, then $14 at todays’s exchange rate would be safe.

Pretty sure its more than that. I’ve ordered stuff from abroad that passed this number quite a few times and never had any sort of customs duties assessed. In fact I had a flashlight come in just today that was declared at $300 on the customs form, no taxes required.

EDIT: Seems to be $800. De Minimis Value Increases to $800 | U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Good find !

But I wonder what they mean by

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This discussion makes me feel nervous.

Just by choosing regular registered mail we probably will not get a letter from the customs but just receive our goods.

They might not even look at the values marked on the package, as those are almost always fake or random when the country of origin is China. If the package looks valuable or is identified and tagged for further scrutiny, they’re going to ask you. With probably just a few GTs arriving in Finland it’s not going to draw much attention. At this point you have the options to truthfully declare ~100 euros and pay some VAT or to commit customs fraud, it’s your choice.

I’m not going to discuss fraudulently marking low values on shipments. Asking for that is not actually legal here, and my best guess is this would be case in several countries and jurisdictions. I don’t care what is printed on the parcel, and even if this discussion never took place the value would probably be something way below the actual value of contents. That’s an ages old practice we cannot change.

My major concern here is the relatively large size of the packages. If chosen for closer inspection, I’m going to receive the Customs letter asking for a declaration. At that point my only option is to provide a copy of the receipt. Yes, the actual receipt. I don’t think trying to avoid VAT of about 25 euros is worth a criminal process.

As I have already stated in the GT main thread a long time ago, at least around here any actual customs declaration is done by the importer, in other words the recipient. Any false “declaration of goods” on the parcel is just paper and worth nothing outside of mainland China. To commit fraud(as in submitting a false receipt or invoice in response to the customs query) may result in prosecution.