Does sending cd abroad need customs declaration?

kuepper

Never sent a cd abroad before and used a large letter size compliant jiffy bag. I asked for cheapest way to send airmail and PO told me £3.50 with royal mail. Besides this being more than i'd thought I've just mentioned it to someone who said I had to fill in a customs declaration too but PO never mentioned this. I'm now worried it'll end up getting sent back and end up costing me, does anyone know about this ?

ballisticbrian

CN22 is needed outside Europe mainly. Where is it going?

There's no large letter format for international mail.

eaglesrjh

ballisticbrian wrote: »

CN22 is needed outside Europe mainly. Where is it going?

There's no large letter format for international mail.

just to clarify that point Within the EU means no customs label is needed on this item,

outwith EU customs label is needed (not sure what happens if it does not have one)

So some European countries which are not full EU members do need a customs label, Norway, Croatia for example.

ballisticbrian

just to clarify that point Within the EU means no customs label is needed on this item,

And yet Jersey and Guernsey need a CN22 and some other exceptions the other way which is why I asked the OP where it is going.

kuepper

ballisticbrian wrote: »

CN22 is needed outside Europe mainly. Where is it going?

There's no large letter format for international mail.

Norway.

There's no info in post offices anymore you just have to trust the staff as the royal mail website isn't that helpful - I couldn't understand if what i was sending was a letter or a parcel, I couldn't see any definitions of these terms.

ballisticbrian

Norway

- it needs a CN22 then.

eaglesrjh

ballisticbrian wrote: »

And yet Jersey and Guernsey need a CN22 and some other exceptions the other way which is why I asked the OP where it is going.

True, i always forget about those!

chancesare_2

eaglesrjh wrote: »

just to clarify that point Within the EU means no customs label is needed on this item,

outwith EU customs label is needed (not sure what happens if it does not have one)

So some European countries which are not full EU members do need a customs label, Norway, Croatia for example.

Croatia isn't even a part member, but are due from July this year. Norway needs a customs label.

Read the sticky on postage.

There ARE places within the EU which DO require CN22/23 (which is value dependent and only for Royal Mail)

ballisticbrian

And having said all this, all you need to do is go to google or yahoo and type CN22 and both search engines come up with the page you need as the first result.

chancesare_2

ballisticbrian wrote: »

And having said all this, all you need to do is go to google or yahoo and type CN22 and both search engines come up with the page you need as the first result.

Whilst for this post CN22 is correct (assuming it isnt a rare expensive cd), do not assume this is the customs label for all. It is only for Royal Mail, not courier and is value dependent.

ballisticbrian

It is only for Royal Mail,

I hate to disagree, it's for HMRC:

http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pageTravel_ShowContent&id=HMCE_CL_000014&propertyType=document#P21_1852