Customs limit lifted!?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 07 Apr 2008, 20:44

I read this on Imports Forum - from 1 December the customs limit on importing goods (£18/22€) will be lifted:

http://www.theimportforums.com/viewtopi ... 707#330707

I'm sure it will apply to us in the UK too! No more worrying about whether a supplier is customs friendly, great

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 07 Apr 2008, 21:12

I hope so.
It's ridiculous that you pay taxes all year long, and then when you order something from another country, you'll have to pay your own goverment money for something they have absolutely nothing to do with.

It will make importing hardware a lot easier. You will be able to buy a console for half the price.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 07 Apr 2008, 21:13

Can you copy/paste please Grim I still cannot get into sodding Import forum.

I find it next to impossible to believe they'd suddenly stop such a lucrative way of making money. Just like speed cameras and the television license.

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 07 Apr 2008, 23:06

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Lex ... 002:EN:PDF

Point 3 on pages 1 and 2.

Can't find anything more than that.

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 07 Apr 2008, 23:54

bradavon wrote:Can you copy/paste please Grim I still cannot get into sodding Import forum.

I find it next to impossible to believe they'd suddenly stop such a lucrative way of making money. Just like speed cameras and the television license.

Customs in this country hate the £18 limit, because it costs them more to process the sheer volume of products coming in that cost more than £18 than they actually make from the V.A.T.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Apr 2008, 08:07

Here's the link Godfather used on Imports Forum. It's in German, but it basically says they're doing it as the amount hasnt been changed since 1991. Which is what Lourdes' link said too.

http://www.areadvd.de/news/2008/200804/ ... Zoll.shtml

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Apr 2008, 14:18

Thanks Grim and Lourdes. I had trouble understanding Lourdes's link.

OMG so the limit will increase from £18 to a whopping £120.

I hope this means orders over £120 (namely HD Players) won't be charged more than they are currently, but obviously for most orders this is reason to rejoice.

I always thought the point was we hadn't paid TAX on the goods hence the charge but it was set to £18 so little things with no value weren't stopped either. If that's true it's weird £120 will now be the limit.

Here is it translated:

On 1 December a new European Union regulation enters into force, with which the duty-free borders for European Union imported goods are raised clearly. The free border "for small transmissions with small value" rises from up-to-date 22 EUR to 150 EUR. Thus the import is facilitated by DVDs and Blu ray Discs from the USA or Australia.

Who would like to order films or computer games with foreign senders, it should note however that the import by indicated films or pornography in Germany is not permitted and a seizure threatens. The European Union commission justifies the decision for the lowering of the duty-free border with the fact that despite a dismantling by tariffs in the last years the free border was not no more raised since 1991.

Shingster wrote:Customs in this country hate the £18 limit, because it costs them more to process the sheer volume of products coming in that cost more than £18 than they actually make from the V.A.T.

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know that.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 08 Apr 2008, 16:41

Its bullshit.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Apr 2008, 16:51

Any info/links Romero?

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 08 Apr 2008, 16:52

Thanks for that informed and explanatory response, Romero.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Apr 2008, 17:38

You haven't said that on Imports Forum Romero, why do yoiu think its BS?

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 08 Apr 2008, 17:42

Er have a google.

and I did not say Bullshit on that forum, as I would be banned haha

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Apr 2008, 17:46

Bullshit = Rubbish

Romero = To lazy to post his Google link.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 08 Apr 2008, 17:54

If it was true do you really think the entire EU would not know about it (just one german site!), including Royal Mail and all other delivery services and the UK govenment? look on their sites and check, not a word.

The chances its true are slimmer than an anorexic midgets cock, after its been shaved.

But then stranger things have happend, like Kill Bill S.E. being released, like the 10 times you lot have been sucked into thinking it was coming, but look still not here

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 08 Apr 2008, 18:04

Did you not read the PDF I linked to? It's evidently happenng.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 08 Apr 2008, 18:10

Lourdes wrote:Did you not read the PDF I linked to? It's evidently happenng.

That does not state prices/figures does it? (I could not see any)

I read it by the way

them things can be even harder to understand than my posts on a good day.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 08 Apr 2008, 18:40

romerojpg wrote:
Lourdes wrote:Did you not read the PDF I linked to? It's evidently happenng.
That does not state prices/figures does it? (I could not see any)

I read it by the way them things can be even harder to understand than my posts on a good day.

You have good days!?!?

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 08 Apr 2008, 18:42

Day, not days

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 08 Apr 2008, 18:58

romerojpg wrote:If it was true do you really think the entire EU would not know about it (just one german site!), including Royal Mail and all other delivery services and the UK govenment? look on their sites and check, not a word.

There's a slight difference between knowing about it, and publically announcing it.

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 08 Apr 2008, 19:22

romerojpg wrote:
Lourdes wrote:Did you not read the PDF I linked to? It's evidently happenng.
That does not state prices/figures does it? (I could not see any)

I read it by the way them things can be even harder to understand than my posts on a good day.

Look again, I referenced two specific sections...

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 08 Apr 2008, 19:25

ECU 22 Shall be Replaced by EUR 150

We can wish. Just like that damn Kill Bill set.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Apr 2008, 20:02

romerojpg wrote:If it was true do you really think the entire EU would not know about it (just one german site!), including Royal Mail and all other delivery services and the UK govenment? look on their sites and check, not a word.

I'm sure they do. They just haven't announced it yet.

I'd think it was maybe suspect, if say it was on a Swedish website, but Germany is one of the biggest economic sectors in the EU.

romerojpg wrote:I read it by the way them things can be even harder to understand than my posts on a good day.

I'll second that

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 08 Apr 2008, 22:11

bradavon wrote:I'd think it was maybe suspect, if say it was on a Swedish website.

You do realise Ken still reads these boards & he's a very patriotic Swedish assassin right?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Apr 2008, 22:25

gasteropod wrote:
romerojpg wrote:If it was true do you really think the entire EU would not know about it (just one german site!), including Royal Mail and all other delivery services and the UK govenment? look on their sites and check, not a word.
There's a slight difference between knowing about it, and publically announcing it.

Exactly!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 24 Jul 2008, 16:00

saltysam wrote:the supposed raising of the threshold at the end of the year doesn't sound like it's gonna happen

http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPort ... t#P46_5576

Bollocks

.

It sounds like it is happening but for Customs Duty.

Any ideas how that differs?