import duties to europe - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 03, 2012, 09:10:21 pm
content: hi, im intrested in that if any of you know how much are the duties from america via ups or fedex, or ordered some expensive stuffs from america, and maybe from digikey , if you can tell me how much extra you paid for duties/taxes etc

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 03, 2012, 09:14:58 pm
content: Import duties and taxes are charged by your local government. Look up your local government website where you should find a list of dutiable items and duty rates charged.If the items are delivered by UPS or Fedex they will also charge an administration fee. You should be able to find out about that on the local UPS or Fedex websites in your country. Or call them.

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 03, 2012, 09:23:40 pm
content: Quote from: IanB on February 03, 2012, 09:14:58 pmlocal costum office site is the worst paid website what was ever made unforunatly, i couldnt find anything like test equipments or similar categories only consumer electronics but nothing specific value and mostly against products from china, ups and fedex tax/import duty papers are tied to corporate account so i cannot view them either, then the only solution left is call any of them up,main reason for all of this is that i can get the same meter from digikey almost 60% cheaper if i count only the 27% tax then the local distributor and farnell prices

author: Kibi
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 03, 2012, 10:04:40 pm
content: I like the way Mouser deals with it. They just have a tick box that, to me, means "deal with it". I forget what it's labelled, but all I know is that I won't get a surprise bill a month later.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 03, 2012, 10:37:47 pm
content: Here in the UK all that is normally charged is VAT (20%) I would expect much the same any where else in the EU, I would avoid UPS or Fedex as they charge a whacking great fee for the pleasure of doing it. I recently had something shipped from the US The value was £17 - 40p the VAT came to £3-48 and UPS fee was £11-00. UPS got the VAT calculation wrong and charged £3-49p.They demanded the money in cash before the driver would hand over the goods. I only had £15 in notes and no change on me at the time so the driver said they would be back with the change, well I have not seen them since despite several emails and phone calls I know its only a small amount but I expect that they are bilking dozens a day in the same way. I will no longe have anything to do with UPS and if that is the only rout to get the item I want I would rather go without.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 03, 2012, 10:59:07 pm
content: to be honest if there are running around charging such fees on the doorstep theu should have portable card readers for you to make payment on. A bloke in my local photography club has one so no reason for these guys not to. Sounds like a right racket, they have already been paid carriage and then charge import fees and keep change.I had to pay £11 to royal mail when i bought just under £30 of goods from Australia to the UK and i've never found much help with import duties so I tend to stay away. Strangely I've never been charged import on chinese goods, not even my Rigol.....

author: Kibi
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 03, 2012, 11:38:03 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on February 03, 2012, 10:59:07 pmWhich photography club would they be? I'm dying to get my camera out.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 04, 2012, 12:02:29 am
content: In some countries, Digikey will take care of the duties and customs stuff. If you order through sites likede.digikey.com, they will ship from the US, but customs charges are included in the advertised price (which is in euros). The courier should only charge VAT on delivery. No idea if you can order from these websites from other EU countries. I'm guessing there's no hu.digikey.com.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 04, 2012, 07:59:37 am
content: Quote from: Kibi on February 03, 2012, 11:38:03 pmwww.rdps.co.uk- a bit far for you to come.....

author: Kibi
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 04, 2012, 10:29:25 am
content: Quote from: Simon on February 04, 2012, 07:59:37 amThanks for that Simon. Rushden is about 70 miles away from me. Not too far I suppose.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 04, 2012, 10:43:44 am
content: Quote from: Kibi on February 04, 2012, 10:29:25 amoh right, make sure it's the right rushden, there are two, we are the NN10 postcode. The guy has actually not been around in quite a ling time. As far as I know there are camera clubs / photographic societies all other the country, is there not one close to you ?

author: Kibi
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 04, 2012, 12:04:17 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on February 04, 2012, 10:43:44 amI attend meets that sometimes come up on the talkphotography forums, but I often miss meets because of other commitments.

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 04, 2012, 03:15:09 pm
content: Quote from: alm on February 04, 2012, 12:02:29 amthere is digikey.hu but then it changes to the global site,if i would order from digikey as i see they ship to hungary for free after 200usd via fedex or ups.i found an another distributor which ships herehttp://www.tme.eu/hu/which has a little bit higher prices then digikey but dunno about them 1-30bucks more as i see and whit plus vat still cheaper then the price on farnell and on the local shop without vat

author: Neganur
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 04, 2012, 04:52:13 pm
content: Quote from: M. András on February 03, 2012, 09:23:40 pmuse this website to find the TARIC code and the customs / VAT rates for goods imported to the EUhttp://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/dds2/taric/taric_consultation.jsp?Lang=enFor example the TARIC code for cathode ray oscilloscopes: 9030201090http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/dds2/taric/measures.jsp?Lang=en&SimDate=20120204&Area=US&Taric=9030201090&LangDescr=enIt lists 4.20% customs if the country of origin is for example the United States.Add to that the VAT of your country and you have a pretty good idea of what you're going to pay.

author: Neganur
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 04, 2012, 05:04:16 pm
content: Quote from: G7PSK on February 03, 2012, 10:37:47 pmIn Finland you can do the customs declaration yourself online, or ask FedEx to do it for you and they charge 2.5% of the customs and tax (minimum 10 EUR + VAT). I don't think this is much if you buy goods for for example 500 EUR. "whacking great fee" is exaggerating a bit. For UPS I don't know.

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 04, 2012, 07:41:43 pm
content: thank you

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 12, 2012, 12:10:34 pm
content: according to the taric number on the farnell site multimeters has 0% import tax/duty then i dont know what justifies that they sell the fluke 289 the same price as the fvf kit and over all this +vat. just for an example

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 12, 2012, 12:30:18 pm
content: In Romania, the fees are split between packages from persons to persons and companies to persons.For person to person packages it's no customs fees if the value is less than 45 euro, and you pay customs taxes for the added value of items left after 45 euro worth of items is removed. If the added value of the items in the package is less than 700 euro, you pay a default value of 2.5% in customs taxes.For company to person packages, there's no customs fees if the items were ordered online and the value is less than 150 euro. Just saying you ordered it online it's enough. But you pay the VAT for any package from outside EU, if it's worth more than 10 euro.I think there's a separate rule somewhere saying you only pay VAT (24%) for anything over 25 euro.From experience, if the packages come through local post from China or if the packages don't look very professional, I go to the post office with customs department and they don't really care about packages unless they're really large - I got Hakko 936, multimeters, even cd envelopes from China and they just open up to check for counterfit merchandise - makes no sense to spend 10 minutes to fill up forms and get about 1$ in customs fees.Anyway, I received an order close to 500$ from Digikey (various stuff, capacitors, soldering wire, solder wick etc) and UPS stopped the package at the airport and calculated the fees and everything and I think I paid about 3% in customs and 24% vat. Still worked a bit cheaper than Farnell and it's quality parts you can't easily find here.

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 12, 2012, 04:13:04 pm
content: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/dds2/taric/measures.jsp?Lang=en&Taric=90303100&SimDate=2011081590303100 is the category, as i see every place has 0% for these items so only vat, but correct me if im wrong, as i calculated from usd to huf prices still cheaper then at farnell without vat. i know there are fees what they put on the goods what they sell but 2-30% is absurd, and even if they buy directy off manufacturers in bulk once again these prices are absurd