OK
This will help us http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs#European_Union
OK
This will help us http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs#European_Union
I live in Belgium ans the system here changed
first it depends on if the customs find your package.
If they do, you have to pay, but it is a fixed amount.
10 euro's no matter for how much you ordered.
Seems like the system here is better than with you guys :d
LOL! EU should have about the same practices but as we found it is a mess. After hearing all this my customs arent THAT bad afterall...
My all packages passed without any custom fees. And that is a lot of them.
I hope we will never join the EU :)
$40 CDN, at which point an extra 12-15%
I'm sure I read earlier that there was a limit of 170 SEK (~18,90 EUR) before you had to pay customs or VAT but checking the official swedish customs homepage today it seems to be gone. This means you have to pay 25% VAT plus a handling fee of 100 SEK for any item from outside the EU (e.g. that would be 11,97 EUR for one DX pig light!!!). If your order is more than 1600 SEK up to 20% customs will be added.
I think robbery is too nice a word! |(
Luckily it seems that customs is not very often interested in these yellow padded envelopes from the far east. From my about 15 orders from HK/CN last year only one was caught. :p
I have read on a Swedish site that duties less than 100SEK will not be collected but if that is including the fee it is surely a silly rule.
I checked what HMRC (Our Customs) say.
From
There are a number of other circumstances where relief from some or all customs charges may be available. If you think your goods may be eligible for a relief you should contact the Customs Helpline for further information.
Goods sent as a gift that are over £40 in value are liable to import VAT. Customs duty also becomes payable if the value of the goods is over £135 but is waived if the amount of duty calculated is less than £9.
To qualify as a gift:
Note: if you purchase goods from outside the EU to give as a gift to a relative or friend, whether or not addressed to that person, is treated as a ‘commercial consignment’ for which the import VAT relief threshold is £18 (paragraph 2.3 refers).
Argentina:
I theory there are taxes of 50% of the value of the object you receive, and you have a "free tax ticket" of 25usd per year per person. So, if you receive something wich costs 30usd, you will have to pay the 50% of the difference, that is (30-25)/2 = 2,5usd.
In real life, if packages are not too big, customs don't check it and you receive them at home. So I buy multiple small packages.
Not sure about that. The particular order of mine that got caught was for 352 SEK. I had to pay 88 SEK (25% moms) plus 100 SEK for handling a procedure I did not want to have in the first place.
Germany:
officially 22 € but customs officers don't start collecting under 26,30€ (equal to 5€ tax)
26,30-150€ taxes of 19%
150-30000000000000 € taxes of 19% plus import duties (which vary widely on which product you are importing)
So essentially I try to stay under 26,30 € which equals to 33,92 $ atm (depending on the actual PP exchange rate)
I envy You.
And the beers are cheaper in Germany also.
And even the mass-market German beer is better than the mass-market British stuff which I am sure has cats involved somewhere.
LOL Don. It is an evening of laughter it seems.
Well, soon the Easter will be here. Then we will have some very good, strong 0.5 L beers in Superbrugsen called "Willemoes Påske Ale" (has a dark green label). They are often on sale before Easter (3 for DKR 40-45)
When she occationaly drink a beer my wife likes dark beers, so I´ll remember that offer. Strong, you said.
Maybe she´ll get some funny ideas! Let there be Easter soon!
And even the mass-market German beer is better than the mass-market British stuff which I am sure has cats involved somewhere.
I have heard that UK are famous for making beers thinner than water.
Good English beer works very well for me. Scottish beers not so much because they are too strong and too sweet. Strong beers in general I find to be unacceptably sweet.
But I'd bet on Fuller's London Pride against any beer anywhere. Or better still, if you can get it, Fuller's ESB. If you get the chance, try them.
If you like ridiculously strong beers, look out for Tactical Nuclear Penguin which is brewed about 50km from me.
I think it is revolting, but it is the highest alcohol beer ever brewed at 32% alcohol by volume. And 125 euros per litre.
It is €150 for personal purchases if items are in low volumes and if not seen like reseller import. Taxes and other import duties for items above this limit.
Customs may still hold it to inspect if the price declared is true but many goods passed without problems if under €150. Some say declaring even a $400 camera as gift and lower than $100 may let it pass through the customs without problems. But some customs may have memory and count your incoming packages and mark you as a trader. My goods from China never stopped at customs with their cheap bubble wraps, gift labels, and $10-15 totals, even though 7 packages arrived at the same time. :)