Import duty post brexit.

[Kentol750]

Boots I ordered from fc moto for £102 plus postage (£7) arrived and there was no extra to pay. Still £35 cheaper than uk' s cheapest shop.
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[Shaft]

Thought it might be as well to update this thread, rather than start a new one.

Been wanting a retro style full face for a while and finally settled on an offering from Nexx - sportsbikeshop had the colour I wanted on offer, but it turned out that was because it was a discontinued design and they didn't have my size, nor did any other UK seller.

Ended up ordering from a company called Helmexpress in Austria, who could sell me what I wanted for pretty much the same price as SBS.

Ordered last Tuesday (11th May) at around 8.15 am and with typically Teutonic efficiency, I was able to track my order every step of the way, from despatch, through to arriving at the airport and clearing customs, to arrival in the UK, which it did the following lunchtime - then, nothing, just sat on the tracking site saying no delivery details available.

Next thing was I receive a letter from Parcel Farce yesterday (17th May) telling me my parcel would not be delivered until I paid them £61, of which £12 was their admin fee, £4.39 was customs duty and £44.74 was VAT, taking the cost of my lid to within 20 quid of the normal retail price of the latest version.

I don't mind the admin fee and import duty, that's the price of admission to the new import shit show, but VAT on an item that would normally be exempt seems a bit of a con.

Anyway, you have been warned.
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[stinkwheel]

Meh. As of January, the EU is imminently going to start charging itself a 10% import tarrif on electric cars made in the EU if they can't start making their own batteries.

@ shaft,
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-customs-dutyimport-vat-relating-to-imports-by-post-bor286

You should send it because if the revenue start getting loads of them, they'll start becoming pissed off and do something about it.
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[grr666]

I bought an extra wide bike ramp from FC Moto last year and there was no extra charges, again a BIG saving over best
UK price and a 20%extra discount because it was Black Friday. Would definitely use again.
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[A100man]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[A100man]

The article here also explains..

https://www.bikestop.co.uk/blog/buying-motorcycle-gear-from-europe

And I guess your £4.39 duty charge is the 2% mentioned for manufactured outside EU, but that begs the question of why we were never charged that pre-Brexit and, if it was absorbed by the importer/seller, why Helmexpress passed on that charge in this case.
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[CaNsA]

Bought a replacement tank from GermanLand in 2022

mpo-motorparts-online / motorparts-online.com

Paid £169.21 on Ebay via Paypal
Customs charged me £44.39

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[dave001]

Thanks to fucking brexit my humidor is getting low. they never use to check 99 out a hundered parcels from germany

[sickpup]

I thought everyone on BCF supported Brexit? There were enough abusive threads on it.

[MarJay]

[stinkwheel]

Mind you, this isn't anything to do with Brexit, it's Parcel Force being incompetant by levying VAT on something that is VAT free. Parcel Force being incompetant predates brexit by decades.
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[dave001]

[sickpup]

[Nobby the Bastard]

One wonders why peopple expect a delivery company to be an expert on tax on items that they are only delivering. The issue has only arisen since Brexit for items from the EU.
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