Customs Charge

[Malandro]

Does anybody know how much I am likely to be charged to buy goods from the USA (approximate value of the item �300) and shipped to this country (uk)? What other charges might I face? (VAT etc?)

[sft42]

It's not a guitar is it?

There have been a couple of questions just like this asked about guitars recently....here's the link to one http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/DisplayAnswers.go?q
uestion_id=41348&category_id=18&index=0

[Malandro]

Thanks for that (although the link does not want to work for me) I'm fairly certain I did a search however nothing came up that was relevant in the 'How things work' section Sorry!

[j2buttonsw]

This is a site which is essentially the UK customs page: http://www.sloanefox.freeserve.co.uk/importukduty.
htm You pay import duty (between 5 and 9%) on the cost of the product plus shipping and VAT (at 17.5%) on top of that! So for a �300 product with �15 packing would cost approximately �388 (17.5% x (5% x 315))