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Keith956 · 2nd Sep 2021, 1:03 pm

My experience recently has been that importing pretty much anything from Europe or the USA is subject to 20% import charges (VAT) after postage has been applied. EBay usually applies this automatically; sometimes not though, and you will face a bill for import charges from the courier instead, who will of course slap on a handling charge (in UPS's case it's £11.50).

Others countries vary; I've had no import charge on a significant item from Israel as well as China - it seems entirely random sometimes.

2nd Sep 2021, 1:03 pm	#14
Keith956 Heptode Join Date: Jun 2019 Location: Oxfordshire Posts: 740	Re: Importing from Europe and us.... My experience recently has been that importing pretty much anything from Europe or the USA is subject to 20% import charges (VAT) after postage has been applied. EBay usually applies this automatically; sometimes not though, and you will face a bill for import charges from the courier instead, who will of course slap on a handling charge (in UPS's case it's £11.50). Others countries vary; I've had no import charge on a significant item from Israel as well as China - it seems entirely random sometimes.