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UK abolishes <£15 VAT free imports. EU to follow.
petematthews:
Hold the phone - it's just one of the companies you may wish to deal with, but JLCPCBs site (my main concern, tbh) now has the following:
United Kingdom 0~135GBP (VAT collected by JLCPCB)
>135GBP (VAT collected by local custom)
From https://support.jlcpcb.com/article/89-customs-duties-and-taxes
Seems to imply they will be handling it. Might email their support folks again and see if I can get hold of someone who knows what's up.
madires:
Interesting, 135 GBP = 150 EUR, i.e. the EU limit for simplified imports (just VAT).
Monkeh:
--- Quote from: madires on January 15, 2021, 04:43:52 pm ---Interesting, 135 GBP = 150 EUR, i.e. the EU limit for simplified imports (just VAT).
--- End quote ---
It is, after all, merely an implementation of EU law.
tszaboo:
So I ordered a few PCbs for a side project from China.
The PCBs were 28 EUR, DHL was 33.
Then just now, DHL charged 17 EUR for "Advance payment fee" and 11 EUR as import duty.
I guess we can kiss goodbye to cheap PCBs.
artag:
Why couldn't the payment processor (paypal, or a credit card company) handle the VAT ?
They could charge a fee that's lower than the post office - after all, the paperwork is going through them already.
It makes more sense than the carrier paying it, when it's related to the payment cost rather than the transport cost
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