Post Brexit (01/Jan/2021) postage issues between EU and UK

Just to confirm for the 150cm max box size. Guy in the main PO depot in town this morning confirmed that as of the beginning of January this year, no packages over 150cm total length will currently be accepted due to Covid restrictions, whether posting nationally or internationally, EU or non-EU.

Ordered some trainers for my kid...assumed it was from a U.K. site. Nope it’s in the Netherlands and UPS the courier.

It’s no biggy, but I wouldn’t have ordered from the site if I knew it was for stock held outside U.K.

Next Brexit Bombhead I meet, my daughter can punch in the balls.

I ordered some car parts (under £135 value) from a .co.uk website last week.
the invoice is in GBP and states that I've paid the vat, but it looks like the order is being sent from Germany.
there was no mention at point of ordering that i was buying goods from outside the UK...
I'm hoping I don't have any further charges to pay but who knows?

We have family in Italy and we regularly send and receive gifts. it's going to be a pretty crap gift if they have to pay to receive them. I guess one way around this is to order any presents for them from within the EU and have them delivered directly...

still waiting to hear of any positives at all to this bullshit, or do I need to start reading the daily mail?

I just posted stuff from NL to the UK. Filled out one custom slip, I did mark the items as gifts under 40euros. Feedback from buyers were good as they said the designation as a gift kept them from paying duty on it.

any idea what happens you essentially ignore customs duty responses...actually, I know it 'just gets sent back' but would you then claim PayPal or chargeback and get your money back? Made one order they've split into 2 boxes, one with £40 customs charge one with £80.....cant see they could've split the value 33% 67% so tempted to pay for £40 and see what turns up potentially letting the other return to Germanv and claiming the cost of goods for the bits not received.

Our first gift parcel sent to the family in Italy since 1st Jan has arrived there with no duty or excess to pay.
Sent with RM tracked, customs form sticker filled out at the post office.

Still waiting on my car bits from Germany.

Heya, how did this turn out? I was thinking of buying from power2max but not sure how the shipping situation is with them to the UK.

Thanks

So I haven't posted anything to EU since brexit.

I'm potentially sending a groupset to slovenia. It seems I need a full itemised break down of the contents of the box.

Finding the HS codes is tricky, so far I've got HS Code 87149950 - Derailleur, gears, bicycles

Don't know if I can be arsed filling out all the codes

Has anyone sold anything to someone in the EU recently? How'd it go?

According to the lady at my post office, if it’ll go in the size of parcel that Royal Mail handle ie ‘medium parcel’ then all you need is a cn22 stuck to the back. You’d just write ‘bicycle parts’ on that.

Thanks dude, I should be able to get it a box that royal mail will handle.
Gonna be that guy and mark it as gift and declare value sub £20 in the hope buyer doesn't have to pay any fees...

The risk with declaring a lower value is that if it's lost, you will be stuck with claiming that value as any refund etc.

Yeah, declare it as a gift bit of out the full value, just incase.

Then again, if it goes missing then the declaration goes missing with it. They don’t, afaik, copy that info down or anything.

Pallet of Champagne has finally arrived in London.

What a nightmare - I had to use a third party wine import company to deal with the transport / excise / VAT as the post Brexit system no longer allows ad-hoc imports.

Net result is moving from a 250€ ex VAT shipping fee for a pallet to a £650 ex VAT for the same service but adding 4 extra forms and using someone else VAT & Excise deferments accounts while i already have my own.

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A few weeks ago I posted a parcel via To Ireland via Parcel2go using DPD to Ireland and it got bounced back and only just received it back 3 weeks later because of Brexit rubbish. In any case dpd apologised and refunded the cost of the shipping. Apparently now they have resolved the issue so should be fine.

Totally worth it for the blue passports and all the happy cod :)

If I want to send some of my old parts to a mate in France, what's the appropriate customs declaration? The stuff has value but there's no money changing hands. If they open it and see a bunch of used stuff, they're not likely to think "gift" is accurate so I wonder what to put down to avoid any bullshit taxes/fees?

I am sending Brompton wheel and some nylon covers to my brother in Berlin. DPD says it's a prohibited item and I can't find the tariff code on the government website. Any advice on how I should ship this? Thanks so much, and what a pain..would have taken me 2 minutes pre collective economic suicide pact

Still a gift, but you will have to put the actual value down too. Not sure about French rules, but items worth over a certain amount will have some duties/tax applied, even if marked as gift.

https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/headings/8714 I think this is the section.

It's unclear whether you might have to have separate tariff codes for each component of the wheels, as there isn't one for 'assembled wheels'

Why though? I paid all the taxes for them already and they're used.

Double taxes are fucked.

Thanks for the answer though, not having a go at you.

I know, it's infuriating.

I live in NL but from the UK. Wanted to ship a second hand bike that I bought in August from UK > NL but I will probably be charged around €300 import duty on it thanks to Brexit.

So the only options are

Gift
Intra Company Transfer
Sample
Sold

What if I was posting them back their own stuff they'd left at mine?

Reached the limits of my knowledge I'm afraid.

Thanks. Will just see what happens.

Fuck Brexit.

Thanks so much. But How tedious is this system? It’s basically impossible to send something to Europe now without spending an hour looking up/guessing tariff codes

It's SUPER unclear. A UX nightmare. Assume they're working on a better version? Probably not.