A few years ago I did some research to help a US Kickstarter project try to get their logistics costs down to stay within budget when other costs went up at their Chinese manufacturer (more pilot runs were needed than expected). By far the cheapest and best way I found to get goods from China to the US West Coast was to use a shipping container (containing only your product, not shared). Doesn't have to be one of the large 40' ones: Even the smaller 20' containers are comparative bargains. One amazing container benefit is that US Customs can be cleared AT THE FACTORY, when the container is sealed (it takes some paperwork and planning, but is otherwise straightforward). The project's original intent was to ship individual units direct from the factory to each backer, taking advantage of the subsidized China Post rates. Even with those great rates, it was still cheaper to send the container to the US, then create separate shipments for destinations outside the US and Asia. Only Asian units weren't loaded into the container. The first quote I got was for a shipping company to bring a container to the factory, then deliver it to the US destination. The shipping companies know how to get every dollar possible, and costs soon become impossible (it was an endless negotiation for a one-off shipment - they basically didn't want the hassle). But if you have your own container, nearly all of the hassles evaporate, though you do need to do more of your own paperwork. But obtaining a container in China is harder than you may expect. Renting isn't done, leases are long-term, and buying one is expensive due to the endless demand. In the end, a 40' container was used, even though it was less than half full, simply because, at the time, shorter containers were harder to get. But the best part was the container itself: It is surprisingly cheap to buy a used container near US ports, and it is also cheap to send a container to China (the ships would otherwise go back close to empty). The shipping company offered a free ride (including US pickup and delivery to the Chinese factory) if they could fill the container with "some stuff", the only demand the project made was that the container would be cleaned before delivery to the Chinese factory (recyclables were, until this month, what many China-bound containers were filled with). Worked like a charm, especially if you aren't fussy about which ship you get on. Being willing to wait up to an extra week at the Chinese port cut the costs considerably. I did the math to figure out the cross-over point between China Post and a container, and it turned out that even a lightly loaded container (say, 1/4 full) would have been cheaper overall, even including the transshipment costs in the US. Still, 1/4 of a container is a significant volume: 680 cubic feet (8x8.5x10). Best for bulky low-density items: The weight and volume of a standard container is included in the basic shipping rate, and you pay extra only for the additional content weight (on a sliding scale: extremely heavy containers are difficult to load and balance). I have no idea if things still work today like they did then. For example, it seems AliExpress now has a service tailored for single-container folks like Kickstarter projects. I don't know much about it, other than that it exists and is reported to be time- and cost-effective. BTW, I did discover that the subsidized China Post rates are basically containers that are identified to go to each major postal terminus, which then sit until they are full (or have waited a month) before being sent. Which explains some of the variability in the delivery times: It's actually quite fast if your China Post package is the last one into its container!

i love that electronic entry processing fee...185$ for someone to scan a barcode...thats IF it isnt scanned on a conveyor line

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

Yup! Milk that cash cow!

@AndrewTSq

6 жыл бұрын

I could do that for a living. Scan 3 packages a day, work 20 days a month and get paid 133200 AUD a year. Sounds fair.

@erzengelmichi666

6 жыл бұрын

Ack! Most of these fees are mirroring the parasitic system that sucks out all of us must do a real productive Work every single day.

@wobblysauce

6 жыл бұрын

Every part needs to take a slice. the other example I was shown 1 time was asked to move a box, someone moved it back, double the handling fee.

@GRBtutorials

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew N Exactly what I thought! Except, that job probably no longer exists, since now a machine does it. More money for the boss!

Just another reason I like your videos. You share everything which keeps it interesting. Thanks. (Love Mailbag)

So frustrating... I've got hit by the same charges when importing some high-performance motors from the USA to Australia a few years ago... I paid $790 just in fees (not including shipping costs) with that money I could actually buy another motor...

@RiccardoMacri

6 жыл бұрын

Its why we call it Frustralia

Ship it to China on a wrong address, but specify yours as the sender, they will return it for free.

@gillianseed4419

6 жыл бұрын

i was gonna say, send to someone in china that can repack it into single pieces and get them all shipped to his door for a buck a piece

@jam99

6 жыл бұрын

Aren't China import fees excessive? The Chinese system is hugely biased towards exporting, isn't it?

@bleckers

6 жыл бұрын

Except it won't. They won't even make it into the country without an import license in China and then they'll be be stuck for god knows how long until someone sorts it out.

Happy New Year Dave!

I had a standard ISO container of granite (28,000 pounds) delivered to my curb in Las Vegas from China ten years ago by an expediter for $2800...

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, boat is cheap for big heavy stuff.

@kameshganeshan2894

4 ай бұрын

16 years ago! Your comment is irrelevant in 2024. Heck, even at the time of posting it.

@ats89117

4 ай бұрын

@@kameshganeshan2894 in 2018 it cost $2500 to ship a 20' container from Shenzhen to Los Angeles. How is that irrelevant?

What a rip off. Even the local delivery fee from the airport. I had a pallet of goods shipped from Sydney to Bega (approx 250 kg) by overnight express freight and it was $106 - something like 25 times the distance for 80% of the cost. Whether there is one box on a pallet or 50 boxes - very little difference (if any) for road transport. Many of those costs you have shown are a rip off including the processing fees. It isn't hard to understand why stuff is so expensive in Australia compared to say the US - unfortunately there are too many trying to rip you off. Thanks for the video Dave.

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

To be fair the courier they have is a private contractor courier that comes here direct, like within 2 hours or something.

@zer0b0t

6 жыл бұрын

9 bucks per multimeter is not terribly bad, he still can make a profit

@coopsnz1

5 жыл бұрын

Usa no taxes on retail price

Many years ago I sold a 16 bit processor board for the Commodore 64 on eBay. My original listing said US only, but a guy in Australia kept bugging me to buy it. I told him I did not want to fool with the high cost of shipping and the difference in currencies. But he kept begging me so I finally relented and said okay. He won the auction, and wound up paying nearly $100 US for shipping. That was as cheap as I could find. And I looked with all the carriers. And what is even stranger, I can have a $10 item, shipped from China and it cost pennies, If anything at all. But if I have to ship the same item back to China, It might cost 30 or $40 or more. It seems that the US postal system is getting the short end of the deal when it comes to shipping from China into this country. But on the flipside, if there is a problem with the item, The Chinese company cannot afford to have the item shipped back. So they wind up refunding the money and losing the item. It is a very strange system.

@UpLateGeek

6 жыл бұрын

Small items used to be pretty reasonable to ship from the US overseas, even via FedEx or DHL. Once you got above a certain size or weight the cost would go up like crazy though. Not anymore though, it's prohibitively expensive to buy anything from the States nowadays, unless it's something ultra-rare that you can't get from elsewhere. I'm thinking it's because the US has become less and less of an export economy compared to the rest of the world, so actually sending stuff out would become relatively more difficult and hence more expensive.

@JeffKarney

6 жыл бұрын

It's a Tri-Lateral agreement between Ebay, USPS and China. And yes, the USPS is taking a bath. about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2010/pr10_058.htm I believe there are also subsidies in place for shipping from countries with developing economies. China is still considered developing. Also for packages that take 2x as long as your other packages (6+ week as opposed to 2 - 4 weeks). These are bundled into a shipping container and do not enter the postal system until they make ground somewhere in the USA.

Dave, would love to see the same breakdown for shipments into the United States and into the EU. Thank you for an interesting look into what real business costs can be.

When I get my pcbs from PCBgogo in China by DHL, DHL not only adds the import duties, but also a handling fee which is twice as high as the duties...

Sea charges are not much lower, but at least the shipping charges are a heck of a lot lower, plus you get to share a container as well, lowering the shipping as that is a per container amount. For sea you are not charged actual mass but volumetric mass, they take the mass or the volume, whichever is larger, and use that. for air they use the actual mass for the plane calculations, but charge you a volumetric mass as well. As your shipment is mostly air you got volumetric mass as the one used.

I used to import granite from China to Slovakia at one of my previous jobs, about 10 years ago. I wish I could remember the price for a 20 feet shipping container from Xiamen to the company. It had to travel by boat to Germany, then by train to Slovakia to the logistics centre, from where it came to us by a truck. I used to handle the communication with the company organising the shipping, and with the customs office as well. The latter was much more nerve wrecking. Often the grand total was a few cents off compared to the actual sum of the fees, because of Excel rounding issues (only two decimals displayed, but there were more, so for example instead of $50.014 only $50.01 was displayed, and $50.01 + $50.01 could become $100,03)

Almost tempted to say, lucky you! in ARG we have to pay (FOB+Shipping charges) * 0,50 as customs/tax costs.... nice!

Thanks for the insight, speaking of DHL and multimeters my BM235 is supposedly our for delivery at this moment!

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

Enjoy.

That's crazy. Here in Japan when I had 148 kgs of personal effects air-freighted over (like you on a commercial flight) the only fees I had to pay on this end were a couple days of storage until I could make it out to the airport to pick the stuff up, totaling under 3000 yen ($30)! I even got to be around when they spread out the boxes and had drug-sniffing dogs walk through them...

8 years ago I bought an electric scooter in China, shipped with a shared container and I also had to pay for all sorts of handling/processing fees like you for about 1000$. But in the end it was still 1000$ cheaper than directly buying an equivalent model to a French reseller.

one time I ordered some odds and ends on Sparkfun in the US to Canada, I was just over the $100 threshold where they would only ship with FedEx. So shipping cost was like $50 or $60 Canadian, which I thought was high, but wasn't the end of the world. I'd shipped hundreds of dollars of stuff from sparkfun and other companies in the states so I thought that'd be all it was. Something about how FedEx does its customs paperwork though screwed me! I've never had any electronics shipments stopped at the boarder before, but this one they opened the box, and took it upon themselves to charge a flat rate of $1 PER ITEM in my shipment. Ok, not bad to charge $1 for "electronics" if I was shipping usb sticks or cell phones across the boarder, but I was shipping 1206 LEDs and other individual electronics COMPONENTS in this shipment. Customs at the boarder was like $100!!! I paid in total like $160 to ship $100 worth of electronics! You argue with the people on the phone about it and they think you're the crazy one, or they blame some other agency or whatever, nobody gets how ridiculous it is because they think you're making millions reselling it or something? I'm just a hobbyist. Craziness. The best part was this charge came around AFTER I'd accepted the package. I probably could have got away with not paying it, but who knows what happens if that shit goes to collections, at very least FedEx would hold future packages of mine. (they act like they did you a favor to 'pay customs on your behalf' - yeah ok, no other company gets me fucked over by customs though)

I wonder if somewhere in all those “spam” emails there was a fulfilment company who deals with things on such a large volume that they would deal with all that for you and do it at an equal or lower cost than the total cost you of importing and then sending off.

Thanks for the passenger flight shipping tip... Hate doing business with DHL... They keep losing our packages and never deliver during business hours. We have now boycotted DHL and use more reputable and reliable couriers like FedEx, Purolator, UPS or even the mail.

Hi, Dave, the two destination fees, did your consignment arrive in Sydney direct from South Korea? Did it swap planes somewhere?

Canada has a problem with carrier companies adding these charges up to 140% the cost of the item. There are no taxes or fees but if you ship it, currier, you get screwed if you ship the same item from the same person through the post office there are no fees.

Good news everyone, the price of the meter has gone up another $10.00. (hehe)

I guess it would be nice to have a fulfillment center in the origin country and just ship them from there..

split the parcels into parts and use the post VIA air. get them to post them from SK to you direct. there are cheaper ways

Hey Dave, any advice on compliance for RCM here in Aus? The EESS, EMC and EME web of requirements is a mess.

Why not by sea? Might take longer but with some planning, would it turn out less expensive?

Would it be cheaper as baggage? Maybe help pay for someone's tickets?

Mascot knows how to charge. I wonder if it's cheaper to Darwin and road to Syd.

what would it cost to ship one meter via dhl?

So your saying if Iimport 50 of the same item from the same place I will face the same bill at the airport even tho it only 50 units?

In Norway, we pay 25% VAT/Value Added TAX on anything that costs over 300 NOK Including Shipping. So, Not only do we have to pay Duty/VAT on the Goods itself, but we pay VAT on the shipping too. Example, 20$ vinyl record, shipped from the US, 20$ shipping, 40$ right? Now add 10$ VAT, 50$ ? Right? Wrong. They charge nearly 20$ to process the thing, so now a 20$ record is 70$ after everything is charged.

Just imagine the cost if Australia and South Korea didn't have a free trade agreement .HA!

Thank you for sharing, Wow, interesting :-)

Great video ! A big name aerospace company in the USA imported a costly diamond into the USA... And was taxed at a high rate. And when NASA launched the payload out of the country to another planet, the aerospace company got a refund from the IRS (government). tjl

thats an eye opener..that really cuts into your profit margin. A drop shipping agent/logistics mob in Korea would be the go??

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

No, it's actually more expensive to do that for Australian customers.

I’m getting some items shipped from Amsterdam, about 25kg. I hope I don’t get slugged as much as that.

Dave - go back to DHL and complain. They are not giving you good rates at all. I just looked up our import rate chart from South Korea - you should be getting around $8/kg plus fuel levy for 300kg+ (your shipment cubed out to about 380kg cubic).

@coastalfloorprep4037

5 жыл бұрын

who are you using?

last month i paid a 25$ fee for a 2$ SMA-N-Adapter because customs thought it was suspicous and had to inspect the package...

@realitygroup6857

6 жыл бұрын

I've had customs inspect many packages before and never had a charge. Now I'm wondering if there's a account I don't know about hahaha.

@antoineroquentin2297

6 жыл бұрын

It's a swiss thing I guess. Until end of last year the delivery could be randomly selected for inspection and you had to pay for it. Since this year they found another way to fund those inspections.

@realitygroup6857

6 жыл бұрын

+Antoine Roquentin ahhh. that's a bit over the top making you pay for it. I'm here in Australia where they basically inspect every 3rd parcel because of the meth epidemic.

@antoineroquentin2297

6 жыл бұрын

The fun part was that you could reject the delivery. If the sender didn't pay the fee, the parcel got destroyed and you could try your luck again.

Ok but .. wouldn’t regular (not express) dhl be siignificantly cheaper ?

Omg that is crazy the movie Good fellas come to my mind every boddy gets there cut :O

I imagine that doing it by boat would be cheaper. But isn't there any handling service in Korea that would warehouse the products and ship them directly to customers? That would probably cost more than shipping but the price would also include your handling costs if you personally touch every meter. On the other hand maybe that is part of the pleasure of owning a EEVblog meter, knowing that Dave personally handled that meter. : ) Now, if there was a service out there that would ensure the product is handled by nude virgins... without the gray beard preferably. That would be some marketing stunt worth paying for. But i guess it would be problematic to document the service was performed though :)

Who did you us to move it

Screw DHL, it costs me 150 euros to ship a 150 euro 3d printer.. 50 euros were just for them to do the customs clearance

Hi there I’m looking for some cargo company to import staff from China can you help with please

Could the two international terminal fees be going from the international part of the terminal to the domestic part of the terminal at Sydney?? >. A bit rich but like you said, everyone gets a cut lol Edit: It could be the Seoul then the Sydney terminal costs.

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, likely something like that.

@WTFMacca

6 жыл бұрын

Nah, It comes direct out of the International Terminal Freight department / area. SACL taking their cut to pay for the lot no doubt.

Do you get to recover the GST through an Input Tax Credit?

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I am a GST registered company.

I had some custom LEDs samples delivered once, cost me nearly £100 for free samples because of the fees that you get charged. That brakes down into £20 shipping, £30 professing, £40 VAT and Import Duty (You can claim this back under certain conditions) and £12 fee from DHL for disbursement where you used there import duties service. Had they been shipped by China Post the total cost would have been £9, but most companies in China won’t use that for commercial post.

Gosh! I'm looking at importing garments. This is a major bummer

Doesn't DHL have cheaper Logistic options? Seems like DHL Express is an easier to find option but they do offer other options but those require specific requests. (DHL AIR ECONOMY etc.) Not saying you were wrong, I don't do any business like that. I know private is like limited to 31.5KG max. but Private Express would increase the price 5x-10x over regular price.

Checking DHL price on express of bulky and heavy shipment is not valid. You should get a quote for DHL freight. It's door to door service too. You paid premium for urgency. would you be able to wait for a shipment month or two and plan your shipment in advance, any local freight company will beat those prices tenfold. My company moved me from Russia to USA and it cost just about 4000$ for a half load of 40ft container shipped by sea door to door with boxing and unboxing by local movers at both ends. It took about three months though.

Unbelievable! It would probably be cheaper to book a return flight to south Korea and bring it back your self in multiple suit cases. And I though the UK was expensive.

Things are so expensive in Oz. Buying stuff in the court and bring stuff in and shipping stuff out. I just don’t understand why?!

@coopsnz1

5 жыл бұрын

10% - 50% consumption tax since Bob hawke prime minister . $100000 car is taxed $25000

Transparency in costs is a good thing, tho

I would have assumed that you were able to ship direct from the factory to your US distributor ( where my 121GW will come from) and not need to bring them into Australia (not Austria ). In Canada we also have that GST which some of us refer to as the Gouge and Screw Tax.

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

I am. This is just for Australian customers and some others.

@oswaldjh

6 жыл бұрын

My Mistake. You spoke about getting hit with the GST 8:15 and said you get reimbursed that amount when you re export the goods. I thought they all physically came into Australia. In Canada I believe that you are hit on paper with the GST even though the product doesn't arrive here and is credited when proof of transaction to the country of destination is received.

@percih70

6 жыл бұрын

woops...... er I meant I mostly get the GST back...... Oh heck I just leave it to my accountant to sort out....

@WreckDiver99

6 жыл бұрын

....but you have free healthcare....sorry...had to...tired of all the people that don't get it in 'merica that free is never free...

@oswaldjh

6 жыл бұрын

WreckedDriver99...tired of all the people that don't get it in Canada that free is never free...We pay for healthcare through high taxes and is a socialized mess with wait times longer than some developing countries. Now that that is out of the way, what does your statement have to do with the price of eggs in China?

With what DHL is charging you could almost put 1 meter into space.

Have you never considered manufacturing products locally?

How much would it cost for a container via ship?

@almostanengineer

6 жыл бұрын

It’s varying based on the time of year, weight of the cargo (your charged by Cubic Ton, weight or volume, which ever is bigger), and availability of space but can range from £1,000 to £5,000 and that doesn’t include all the import duties, port fees, delivery fee (you only get so long to unload too, usually 4 hours from time of arrival), disbursement services if used etc... but spread over the cost of 1,000,000 widgets inside a container it could be as little as £0.0001 per unit

From China you often have charges that properly translate to "bribes"

What about boat shipping?

@Kodachi123

6 жыл бұрын

Doesn't it takes several months?

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

You'd get hit with similar import charges which is the majority of the cost here, so boat actually doesn't same you much in this instance. For much bigger or heavier things, yes you'd save a lot.

@nraynaud

6 жыл бұрын

and what about drop shipping? have you tried it? Thanks for the information, one day I'll have a product I'll manufacture and ship.

Come and life a while in Germany ... Know what fun we allways have with the customs ... OR if DHL brings the parcel to your door and the want extra money - no one told them to handle the customs for me ... such things.

That's why I love EU. Fo example 100 kg spare parts delivery from Italy to Poland cost me about €50 for standard delivery (3 business days), or about €120 for air service (next day). On other hand when I ordered 2 pcs motor brushes (weight 20g) from US I paid over €50 of different fees. Dave if you looking for someone who can handle GW121 distribution in Europe, I am here :) .

@Okurka.

6 жыл бұрын

Will you pay the fees to import the 121GW into the EU?

@Pampali

6 жыл бұрын

Of course someone must pay it. Usually distributor do this and include all applied fees into retail price. Thats why retail prices are bigger. Only way to omit some fees is buying direct from producer or exporter as a gift. That's how aliexpress usually works. But sometimes even retailer have to pay custom taxes. Few years ago I ordered something worth $100 from ebay US and Royal Mail (UK) charged me £2 costum fees and £8,5 operation fee

@tuttocrafting

6 жыл бұрын

With what carrier you paid €50 for shipping italian post service is not cheap. To send stuff inside italy you have to pay a lot, I have sent a package from venice to Padova (30km away) and I had to spent €25 if I took the car I could have paid €2.6 (hightway fees)

@Pampali

6 жыл бұрын

Big companies got different rates. When I order spare parts from producer (who is big international company) I can ask him to delivery with his rates. But it is no a point. The point is that inside UE we do not have to pay any extra fees, we pay only for delivery.

@percih70

6 жыл бұрын

Surely you should be buying your GW121 as a single item direct from Asia, that has't to be the cheapest way, if Dave ships from Ausi he's just acting as yet another middle man.....

Next time you are in your local supermarket have a look out for US fruit. This grown, picked, packed , stored, sold to wholesales, get shipped in refrigerated containers to Australia, sold again to supermarkets, shipped to the store, put on the shelf and sold for less than $5kg, with everyone making money in between.

How can I import live fish from the Amazon 😭😭😭

Don't know why you are having to pay so much for DHL. I ship the same volume/weight in espresso machine parts from Italy to the USA and my door-to-door is about $ 700.00. On top of that I pay import duties and brokerage fees, but they are about $ 300 - $ 400. My weights and volume are more like 200Kg and it is one large box on top of a pallet (euro pallet size). Ask the manufacturer if they can quote you door to door service. I can be cheaper for them to use their account than you to use your own DHL account.

Woo! if that's an example of the free trade market god help the UK post brexit......

Why don't you get it manufactured in Australia or are there no factories in Australia that will/can do it?

@IanScottJohnston

6 жыл бұрын

Dave isn't the one doing the actual manufacturing, it's out of his direct control by all accounts.

@simontay4851

6 жыл бұрын

I realise that he's not doing the manufacturing but he's obviously designed it. I was asking why he doesn't use an Australian manufacturer/factory. That would save him a lot of money on import fees and he'd be able to sell it cheaper to the customer.

@jam99

6 жыл бұрын

Not sure he did design it. I think he had a lot to do with the specification.

@GoExploreAU

6 жыл бұрын

Australias manufacturing industry is in the toilet. Having something like this made in Australia just wouldn't make sense from a $$$s point of view, even with this kind of import fees.

@coopsnz1

5 жыл бұрын

@@simontay4851 business costs are nuts in Australia , greedy government takes more than half your profit if you own a small business

You're a soulman :) I wonder how those guys got selling thru Amazon.

i import cigars and i know Im doing it wrong... taxes of 1,500 per kg means it costs me more than the product

In Brazil (Multimeter price + shipment fee) * 0.6 = custom fee. Lets say a multimeter costs US$300.00. In numbers: US$ 300.00 + US$30.00 = US$330.00 * 0.6 = US$198.00 -> custom fee! Total cost = US$330.00 + US$30.00 + US$198.00 = US$558.00 !!! Including custom fees, each multimeter costs US$558.00 Such custom fee is nicknamed as "cost's Brazil".

@aemvasconcelos

6 жыл бұрын

You are forgetting that in Brazil "they" can say that the "real" cost is not 300 but (say) 500. And then apply the taxes over that price. I heard that you can appeal the decision by sending them information about 3 places where the price is what you say it is. But I think they don't have to accept that.

@Nets-nutsBr

6 жыл бұрын

That's really true.

Have the Koreans declare it as a "GIFT" on the CN22.

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

Makes no difference, and there is no "CN22", this is not regular mail.

@marvin19966

6 жыл бұрын

EEVblog2 IT'S A JOKE DAVE

@stevec5000

6 жыл бұрын

Or have them assembled in China and sent to you with "free" shipping!

@TobyCowles

6 жыл бұрын

TheAnalogKid2 I got a lot of 'gifts' from the Chinese. Resistors, micro switches, LEDs, an old connector here and there. As an electronic hobbyist no one beats the Chinese when it comes to ordering components

@TheAnalogKid2

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry Dave, I was just playing with you. Obviously, this will never fly given the package description you described.

why dont ship lose contain

It would be cheaper for you to fly to Seoul, declare them as luggage, and fly back with them.

I buy small frozen pizzas from Germany for like $3 Canadian... Dr Oekter and PC

Haha yeah I get you mate. I work for a freight forwarder and let me tell you that these charges are very normal for all countries. But with so many people handling both the documents and cargo it can only add up. Well known way around most of these fees is to send it via dhl but with the value of the goods being less than 1000 aud each consignment. Then you won’t be paying any customs related charges or terminal fees. Just dhls charges :)

@coopsnz1

3 жыл бұрын

5% custom duty in Australia and 125 taxes in Australia

If you really want to be dazzled, look for the Brazilian import taxes. Spoiler alert: it can get as high as close to 100% of the "price of the product" + "shipping costs"

What happened to our free trade agreement?

I wait for the day they invent a "Fee fee fee charge"

Wow, Australia is pretty terrible but you have no idea of the fees you'd have to pay here in Brazil!

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

I basically won't send stuff to Brazil any more, stuff just goes missing.

@simontay4851

6 жыл бұрын

People in the postage service nick it. Brazil is really corrupt.

@Nets-nutsBr

6 жыл бұрын

shipments must have tracking number otherwise they will get lost

I've paid up to AU$8,500 for a 40ft container from China.

@coopsnz1

3 жыл бұрын

Shipping a pick up truck from USA is $5000

CRAZY addition error! I don't think it's "$1200", it's only 1016.92. It looks to me like the Quarantine Processing Charge and the Declaration Processing Charge are breakdowns of the Electronic Entry Processing Charge, but Dave appears to have added in both the items and their total, double counting them. So basically this story is 15% less CRAZY than Dave says. :-)

USA doesn't have federal sales tax = no tax on the retail price ... why a dirt bike $8000usd and in Australia it $14000 it tax $2500 by Government

Need to build drone submarine

Thanks for sharing that Dave. That is a big scam for sure. Legal mugging just like speeding tickets.

Use Helium Bubble Wrap....

51% tax on a Bmw m2 / $25, 000 taxes to Government / Audi s4 $33,000 in tax

Who says there is no longer get any money in hardware 😆

Wait. So you first pay a lot to get everything in and than you (or the costumer) pay a lot to ship it out again? Also if you can prove some of your product will never really 'enter' (being used in) Australia, you might be able to deduct the import tax. At least that was how it supposed to be where I'm from. Because you don't import it.

@Okurka.

6 жыл бұрын

Did you watch the video?

@bbreeuwer4577

6 жыл бұрын

Yes?

You haven't lived in Brazil yet.

Buy your own boat, Australia has a big coast doesn't it? 😀

@UpLateGeek

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, although our Navy has a habit of boarding boats, and any without the right paperwork are sunk and its occupants returned to the port they came from on life rafts. With maybe a bit of human rights abuse in between. And no, I'm not joking.

@UpLateGeek

6 жыл бұрын

+Nick Janse I'm not doing your homework for you. This stuff has been covered by our MSM, so it's not my fault if you haven't been paying attention well enough.

@1ohtaf1

6 жыл бұрын

The Up Late Geek, you're a crock of shit.

@UpLateGeek

6 жыл бұрын

+1ohtaf1 because calling someone names is the best way to prove your point.

@UpLateGeek

6 жыл бұрын

+Nick Janse I don't have time to google for a source every time I post a comment on the Internet. If you want to learn something then you're welcome to take some initiative and google it, otherwise I'm not here to educate you.

Perhaps there is some official redistribution company so you can avoid the import costs.

@EEVblog2

6 жыл бұрын

There is no magic bypass.

@MauroTamm

6 жыл бұрын

More like a company in SK who would send them directly to buyers - unless they still need finishing/testing.

Naa just ship used products it's usually cheaper.

A car imported from Japan is still cheaper than buying the car in Australia lol 😂

Lols I want to to import a car and bloody hell thats a lot of money

@coopsnz1

3 жыл бұрын

Importing a f150 to Australia $5000 , you pay by weight and scale

That rate from DHL is line card rate that's not a good deal!,,

51% tax on European cars , free trade cars 46%

SHIP to USA.. I'll ship for you...

Someone lock his door so he will take some time off.

We call it fee'ses.

*International *International *International *International Terminal! jeeeez! :D