Customs Duties/Fees on Christmas gifts

y3sitsm3

user1977 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Ergates said:

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.

But at least we can print crowns on our pint glasses again, even though there was nothing stopping us from doing it before.

And soon we might have the national anthem played every night on the telly.

Even though it was for the first 20 years or so of us being in the EU...

So from 1993 then?

We didn't join the EU, we joined the EC.  It didn't become the EU until after the Maastricht Treaty in 1993.

If it was still the EC I suspect there wouldn't have even been a referendum, let alone a majority leave vote.

Manxman_in_exile

y3sitsm3 said:

user1977 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Ergates said:

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.

But at least we can print crowns on our pint glasses again, even though there was nothing stopping us from doing it before.

And soon we might have the national anthem played every night on the telly.

Even though it was for the first 20 years or so of us being in the EU...

So from 1993 then?

We didn't join the EU, we joined the EC.  It didn't become the EU until after the Maastricht Treaty in 1993.

If it was still the EC I suspect there wouldn't have even been a referendum, let alone a majority leave vote.

I think, for once, I agree with you...

user1977

y3sitsm3 said:

user1977 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Ergates said:

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.

But at least we can print crowns on our pint glasses again, even though there was nothing stopping us from doing it before.

And soon we might have the national anthem played every night on the telly.

Even though it was for the first 20 years or so of us being in the EU...

So from 1993 then?

We didn't join the EU, we joined the EC.  It didn't become the EU until after the Maastricht Treaty in 1993.

Ok, the EU and its predecessors if you like - the national anthem was still part of BBC1 closedown after 1993.

Manxman_in_exile

I think the differences between the EU post-Maastricht and its predecessors were quite significant actually.

I think it caused quite a lot of people to re-consider their position on "Project Europe".   

y3sitsm3

user1977 said:

y3sitsm3 said:

user1977 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Ergates said:

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.

But at least we can print crowns on our pint glasses again, even though there was nothing stopping us from doing it before.

And soon we might have the national anthem played every night on the telly.

Even though it was for the first 20 years or so of us being in the EU...

So from 1993 then?

We didn't join the EU, we joined the EC.  It didn't become the EU until after the Maastricht Treaty in 1993.

Ok, the EU and its predecessors if you like - the national anthem was still part of BBC1 closedown after 1993.

Not really.

What we joined as the EC was VERY different to what it morphed into with the EU.

People should really have been given a referendum at the time of the Maastricht Treaty but they were not, and when they were given a referendum (Lisbon Treaty) they were told to vote again until they got the right answer (yes).

The people that voted to join the EC in the 70's are the same who voted to leave, and that must tell you something. The deal changed and that's not OK.

The national anthem is another red herring by remoaners. Who really cares about the national anthem being played when they don't shut down anyway, they just "join" "BBC News 24" for a few hours.

Manxman_in_exile

@y3sitsm3 -  while I agree we should have had referendums for Maastricht and Lisbon, we in the UK didn't get one for either, did we?  (You seem to be suggesting that we did have one for Lisbon but had to have another because we voted the wrong way.  Wasn't that the Republic of Ireland and possibly somewhere else?)

Aylesbury_Duck

y3sitsm3 said:

user1977 said:

y3sitsm3 said:

user1977 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Ergates said:

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.

But at least we can print crowns on our pint glasses again, even though there was nothing stopping us from doing it before.

And soon we might have the national anthem played every night on the telly.

Even though it was for the first 20 years or so of us being in the EU...

So from 1993 then?

We didn't join the EU, we joined the EC.  It didn't become the EU until after the Maastricht Treaty in 1993.

Ok, the EU and its predecessors if you like - the national anthem was still part of BBC1 closedown after 1993.

Not really.

What we joined as the EC was VERY different to what it morphed into with the EU.

People should really have been given a referendum at the time of the Maastricht Treaty but they were not, and when they were given a referendum (Lisbon Treaty) they were told to vote again until they got the right answer (yes).

The people that voted to join the EC in the 70's are the same who voted to leave, and that must tell you something. The deal changed and that's not OK.

The national anthem is another red herring by remoaners. Who really cares about the national anthem being played when they don't shut down anyway, they just "join" "BBC News 24" for a few hours.

Is it?  Why is it always an ERG type Tory who proposes this sort of nonsense, then?  It seems to me that the more data that emerges to show that the sunlit uplands we were promised are still at an an indeterminate point way over the horizon, the more of these daft suggestions come forward.  If they are diversionary tactics, it's very obvious which direction they're coming from, and why.  Desperation.