Planning to get someone to send me an iPad 2 into Taiwan from Canada. How much should I expect to pay in duties if it gets inspected at customs? I heard it was like 12% of the actual value of the device. That’s a lot. Are there any links where I can look this up?
Usually you can get away with it if it’s sent UPS, while FedEx normally always end up sticking you with a lot…
Who cares if you imported 40 units of whatever? This is a single device for a consumer, not the same rules. Try posting something relevant next time
Yikes! 28%! So where do you guys get these figures? I know US customs has a website where you can look up the duty on every kind of item.dataweb.usitc.gov/scripts/tariff.asp
Is there such a thing for Taiwan?
He’s wrong, if you’re sent it from your friend as a gift, it won’t be nearly as much. He’s confusing his business and personal purchases. Besides, friend of mine just bought a camcorder from the US and was taxed zero, so there you go…
Send it as a gift.
Duty Free, and Exempt.
Be sure to undervalue it on the customs notice.
Be wary of some carriers into Asia. Especially some of the big names, most esp. Fedex or UPS. They will at time pass off voluntarily imposed storage fees as non-existant customs duties.
For some obvious reason I find the Cdn version of the HS most easy to navigate. The first 8 digits will be the same, only the last two will differ from country to country for statistical reasons.
if according to the rules it should be x% on the value plus transport cost …
but as said, UPS, FedEx, or any other courier service, sent as gift … probably nothing …
FedEx normally charges you while UPS doesn’t, at least in my experience and that’s related to product samples which should be duty free.
It will be sent Canada Post Xpresspost which is known as EMS here. Another related question, if I have to pay extra duties how will this happen? Will customs hold the package and call me and I need to go to some place to pay off duties to pick it up, or do I pay the postman at the time of delivery to my house?
My experience … EMS doesn’t charge …
Normally you pay when it arrives, but I guess it depends. The post office would make you come and collect it and pay tax+duties there.
Update: I received my iPad 2 today, no duties levied. My brother wrote down it was a gift and that the contents were a digital photo frame. BTW, the postal system in Taiwan is awesome. My packaged arrived at Taoyuan Airport at 9am and was processed and delivered to me in Taipei by 3pm the same day. In Canada it sat in the post office for 2 days before being shipped out.
You were lucky… In my time in Taiwan…
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A beat up old style GPS (no map, just built in icons) was sent to me. The customs agent thought it was a radio. I was called to the post office. He wanted to charge me. I showed him it was old and there were missing parts… He let me pass. Tainan 11 Years ago
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Mom sent my kid a Bratz Kids karaoke machine. Customs opened up the box. Took things apart. Passed it with no duty and made us go into Kaohsiung to pick it up saying that it was too fragile to let it continue it journey. We live in Pingtung county and had to take a weekday off to go into town for that thing. Rural Pingtung County 3 years ago.
Both were using the post office.
I paid a little extra to have a videocamera sent by USPS last week instead of a private service, because in Taibei things arriving by UPS, FedEx etc. and valued at over $3k routinely get inspected and taxed, in my experience. As usual, it arrived with no duty imposed, despite being worth NT$15k.
The Canadians need to collect enough parcels to ship out, save money …
Many years ago, I had some vitamins/minerals and other pills shipped from the US, FedEx calls in, pleas pay tax on the amount of pills that’s to much to be for personal use … my answer … stuff it! Or ship it back! Magically it appeared at my door a day or so later … no charges!