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Declare As Gift / Declare As Sample
Posted by - NA - on 19 06 2008 03:21 AM
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"Can You Declare My Goods As A Gift / Sample?"
Based on our many years experience of exporting, we do not recommend doing this, because of the two reasons below:
1. Our logistics system generates shipping invoices automatically and such a degree of customization is not feasible.
2. In the vast majority of countries worldwide, declaring goods as a "gift" or "sample" makes no difference whatsoever to the assessment of the value / taxability of the goods at Customs.
(To take one example, in the UK goods can be assessed by Customs differently if they genuinely appear to be gifts, i.e. individual items gift wrapped with name tags or a greeting.... but simply stating "gifts" on a commercial-looking shipping invoice won't cut any ice with Customs.)
However, we will still do our best to follow your request, but we don’t have any guarantee on that, appreciated your understanding.
In cases where we are sending you repaired or replacement products under warranty, we will declare them as such. However that is also no guarantee you will not have to pay import duties or sales taxes upon receipt of the goods.
Import duties and taxes are usually not that bad. For more information click here to read our other Tax FAQs.
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