Import duty from US to mainland Europe?

[makster]

Do you guys in Euroland proper get consistantly hit with import duty when buying parts from the US?

 

[mattr]

For me, buying globally, shipping to Sweden, it's about 15% of deliveries get hit.

It'd still save me money if it was 100%

 

[Jamis Diablo]

Yes, in Holland we pay 12% import dutys over price plus shipping costs, and then 21% over the total of that.
So a part with price of $80 and $20 shipping will be $100 x 1.12 x 1.21 = $135,52 :?

 

[makster]

For me, buying globally, shipping to Sweden, it's about 15% of deliveries get hit.

It'd still save me money if it was 100%

I'm working in Sweden in a months time so maybe I need to get the parts I need shipped there!

 

[makster]

Re:

Anyone in France?

 

[Pyro Tim]

Avoid Spain and Italy. You pay the duty and VAT and don't get the goods

 

[makster]

Re:

I've bitten the bullet and taken my chances with shipping to my address.
I hate paying tax on 2nd hand bike bits. It an absolute joke

 

[Bollox64]

My Yo Eddy F & F import cost me 25% in import duties :-(

Of course the small stuff they choose to miss...

 

[ishaw]

I've had a $500 frame get through without anything applied but have had less expensive and smaller items get hit, even something I sent to the states to get serviced I had to pay tax and import duty on. I think postage is also taxed which is a bit of a joke as the person posting the item pays that in the local country anyway.

 

[Neil]

In my (albeit limited) experience, it's all been down to the accuracy of the customs declaration on the item being imported.

Anything in the hundreds that I've imported, that has had an accurate customs declaration on it, has had VAT added (I calculated it beforehand, though, using an online calculator, so factored it into the cost).

Other things have varied - especially going back a few years. In the last couple of years, though, the small number of things I've imported, have had the correct level of charges imposed on them - nothing has slipped through - but then the customs declarations were correct.