Has anyone had any experience regarding the importation of vintage Scott parts(or any other bike) from outside the Common Market. Import duty ? VAT ? etc
Over several years I have bought eBay items such as handlebar levers, repro’ saddles, Enfield hub parts, etc., from companies in India, and import duty, VAT, etc., has never been mentioned.
Brian
Yes,well. I bought a couple of Runbaken magnetos from a guy in Oz.I paid a good price for them,well he thought it was good !!!
the problem was that as it was insured and tracked post,the p&p was quite expensive,and he put the total price,including p&p on the customs declaration form.Of course our friends at Border Force seized on that figure and Duty and VAT me for another £84.00. i have appealed but I doubt if I can overcome ingrained bureaucracy.
I’ve never been clobbered with import duties from the far east but stuff from the US appears to be more of a lottery. We have been stung a couple of times (though not always) from the US.
Perhaps only the higher value parcels get clobbered, because there are hundreds of thousands of items coming into the country every day, and they can’t cope with all of it, so just target items above a certain declared value ?
Brian
I bought a part for a bevel Ducati from California for ~£600 and got stiffed for about £120 duties. Previously bought much lower cost items and had no such issue – I’ve been told that there is a lower threshold below which C&E don’t bother, but I don’t know where that threshold is.
I sent two crank halves and a rod from Australia to the Mother country to be machined by Eddie Schermer. From memory it was 30 GBP import duty and the parts second hand were valued at $200 AUS. KP
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