(UPS) Customs import form for Harmonised code 930599

[Colonel Kurtz]

Haven't heard anything more from them, no confirmation of the form being received or it clearing customs etc. I'll probably just get the package turn up at my door and then an email asking me to pay the fee. When that occurs I'll certainly see if I can squeeze more info from them, best-case scenario is I find out a toy-part commands no duty and I successfully argue classifying it otherwise is their mistake and therefore not a fee i should pay.

EDIT - figured i should probably check the tracking info (doh) and it's being delivered to me today apparently, will see if i get a charge as I answered 'no' on pretty much everything on that form, to the degree where i wasn't saying it was airsoft or RIF in any manner

 

[Colonel Kurtz]

Turned up and no charge so far...

 

[Mack]

Seems to have happened to someone else on Z1. Is this a new thing with UPS? never had it before myself.

http://forums.zeroin.co.uk/showthread.php?259052-New-UPS-Import-Questioning

 

[Sacarathe]

I think UPS just send that, or other similar forms, for all imports which are on regulated harmonized codes (930..... for firearms), if there is duty due on the package then UPS will charge their flat rate duty clearance of £11 and also bill you the VAT.

If you should be paying duty on your package then you gain nothing by not filling in this form, AFAIK. But I don't think you need provide UKARA unless there is a RIF in the package.

 

[Sacarathe]

I just had a realisation. For the time that UPS took to contact me, by post and email, while waiting for a response from me and taking days actually contact me, they held my package before allowing it to pass through customs, FOR NO REASON beyond the off chance that a package from evike.com, a known airsoft retailer might contain a RIF or other 'iffy' item.

That's some kind of interfering with postage. They had held my parcel entirely off their own back for their own interests without involving UK customs, just because of the source.

Had they just given it to UK customs it would have gone straight through without any issue.

This all before the ransoming begins.

 

[GiantKiwi]

I just had a realisation. For the time that UPS took to contact me, by post and email, while waiting for a response from me and taking days actually contact me, they held my package before allowing it to pass through customs, FOR NO REASON beyond the off chance that a package from evike.com, a known airsoft retailer might contain a RIF or other 'iffy' item.

That's some kind of interfering with postage. They had held my parcel entirely off their own back for their own interests without involving UK customs, just because of the source.

Had they just given it to UK customs it would have gone straight through without any issue.

This all before the ransoming begins.

They are allowed to do this, as is every other parcel company importing from outside of the EU.

 

[Sacarathe]

Good to know, though I did not intend to imply it was illegal.