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Customs Duties/Fees on Christmas gifts
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Regardless of the rules in individual countries everyone should by now know we are no longer part of the EU so when sending to an EU country it's an export.
Nor are retailers obliged to warn you of a countries customs charges because there are hundreds of countries and why should they.
Like the importer, the exporter needs to do their own due dilligence on a countries customs laws.
Welcom to Brexit, rule Britannia and all that crap.2 -
Linked legislation is explicitly for goods sent into the EU as gifts from outside the EU and so have now become applicable between UK to Germanybris said:Regardless of the rules in individual countries everyone should by now know we are no longer part of the EU so when sending to an EU country it's an export.0 -
Tip for the future,use Amazon Germany for the gifts prices include all local taxes.
I believe your UK account login works in all countries?0 -
But at least we can print crowns on our pint glasses again, even though there was nothing stopping us from doing it before.bris said:Regardless of the rules in individual countries everyone should by now know we are no longer part of the EU so when sending to an EU country it's an export.
Nor are retailers obliged to warn you of a countries customs charges because there are hundreds of countries and why should they.
Like the importer, the exporter needs to do their own due dilligence on a countries customs laws.
Welcom to Brexit, rule Britannia and all that crap.1 -
And soon we might have the national anthem played every night on the telly. There is no end to the wondrous benefits of Brexit.Ergates said:
But at least we can print crowns on our pint glasses again, even though there was nothing stopping us from doing it before.bris said:Regardless of the rules in individual countries everyone should by now know we are no longer part of the EU so when sending to an EU country it's an export.
Nor are retailers obliged to warn you of a countries customs charges because there are hundreds of countries and why should they.
Like the importer, the exporter needs to do their own due dilligence on a countries customs laws.
Welcom to Brexit, rule Britannia and all that crap.
It's unfair to blame it all on Brexit, all this nationalist nonsense was always there, Brexit has simply emboldened the fruitcakes who subscribe to it.3 -
Even though it was for the first 20 years or so of us being in the EU...Aylesbury_Duck said:
And soon we might have the national anthem played every night on the telly.Ergates said:
But at least we can print crowns on our pint glasses again, even though there was nothing stopping us from doing it before.bris said:Regardless of the rules in individual countries everyone should by now know we are no longer part of the EU so when sending to an EU country it's an export.
Nor are retailers obliged to warn you of a countries customs charges because there are hundreds of countries and why should they.
Like the importer, the exporter needs to do their own due dilligence on a countries customs laws.
Welcom to Brexit, rule Britannia and all that crap.2 -
I think that's a very unfair comment to make just because someone had a different view to yours.Aylesbury_Duck said:
And soon we might have the national anthem played every night on the telly. There is no end to the wondrous benefits of Brexit.Ergates said:
But at least we can print crowns on our pint glasses again, even though there was nothing stopping us from doing it before.bris said:Regardless of the rules in individual countries everyone should by now know we are no longer part of the EU so when sending to an EU country it's an export.
Nor are retailers obliged to warn you of a countries customs charges because there are hundreds of countries and why should they.
Like the importer, the exporter needs to do their own due dilligence on a countries customs laws.
Welcom to Brexit, rule Britannia and all that crap.
It's unfair to blame it all on Brexit, all this nationalist nonsense was always there, Brexit has simply emboldened the fruitcakes who subscribe to it.
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Most of those "different views" have turned out to be lies though.powerful_Rogue said:
I think that's a very unfair comment to make just because someone had a different view to yours.Aylesbury_Duck said:
And soon we might have the national anthem played every night on the telly. There is no end to the wondrous benefits of Brexit.Ergates said:
But at least we can print crowns on our pint glasses again, even though there was nothing stopping us from doing it before.bris said:Regardless of the rules in individual countries everyone should by now know we are no longer part of the EU so when sending to an EU country it's an export.
Nor are retailers obliged to warn you of a countries customs charges because there are hundreds of countries and why should they.
Like the importer, the exporter needs to do their own due dilligence on a countries customs laws.
Welcom to Brexit, rule Britannia and all that crap.
It's unfair to blame it all on Brexit, all this nationalist nonsense was always there, Brexit has simply emboldened the fruitcakes who subscribe to it.
Many of the "things we can do when out of the EU it turns out we could have done when in the EU anyway.0 -
This isn't the place for a discussion on Brexit, nor should it be a place to insult those that voted either way in it.jon81uk said:
Most of those "different views" have turned out to be lies though.powerful_Rogue said:
I think that's a very unfair comment to make just because someone had a different view to yours.Aylesbury_Duck said:
And soon we might have the national anthem played every night on the telly. There is no end to the wondrous benefits of Brexit.Ergates said:
But at least we can print crowns on our pint glasses again, even though there was nothing stopping us from doing it before.bris said:Regardless of the rules in individual countries everyone should by now know we are no longer part of the EU so when sending to an EU country it's an export.
Nor are retailers obliged to warn you of a countries customs charges because there are hundreds of countries and why should they.
Like the importer, the exporter needs to do their own due dilligence on a countries customs laws.
Welcom to Brexit, rule Britannia and all that crap.
It's unfair to blame it all on Brexit, all this nationalist nonsense was always there, Brexit has simply emboldened the fruitcakes who subscribe to it.
Many of the "things we can do when out of the EU it turns out we could have done when in the EU anyway.
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