UPS Duty Charge and Disbursement Fee????

[Z06vetteman]

I just received a bill from UPS for my FlashScan delivery. It appears that I was charged a 5.30% tariff rate on the extra plastic terminals I ordered. In addition to this charge (5 cents), UPS is charging me a $5.00 Disbursment Fee. :evil:

Has anyone that ordered extra terminals with FlashScan received a bill from UPS?

Regards,
Ted

[Blacky]

US customs will charge a 0.21% (min $25.00) "Formal Entry" fee (also called a Merchandise Processing Fee) if the cost of the goods is over USD $2,000.
UPS will charge a disbursement fee of 2% (min $5.00) of monies paid upfront to customs.

As far as I know, you should not have been charged anything by US customs or UPS, if your order was under USD $2,000
Check the invoice attached to the shipment to make sure it does not incorrectly state a price over USD $2,000

I will ask UPs about it tomorrow and let you know what they say.

Regards
Paul

[Z06vetteman]

My EFILive invoice states the total value of FashScan as 199.00 USD and the plastic terminals (2 total) as 1.00 USD each.

The UPS International Services Invoice lists the following:
................Entered Value...Tariff Rate...Amount
FlashScan.......199.00............FREE..........0. 00
Plastic Term.......2.00............5.30%........0.05

Plus the Dispursement Fee of 5.00.

It sounds as though UPS may have made a mistake. Thanks for the offer to contact them on my behalf, but I know you are very busy with many more important matters. I will give them a call and try to resolve this issue.

Regards,
Ted

[Blacky]

It does look like a mistake to me.

[Blacky]

but I know you are very busy with many more important matters.

Hmmmm, yes it is my wife's birthday tomorrow - important things indeed
Paul

[Z06vetteman]

That certainly is important. I hope you both enjoy the day.

[PITS]

Hi,

I have just had UPS ring me saying that Australian Customs have grabed my Upgrade from EFILive V6 Pro to FlashScan on the way in and they want $92 is this normal? Is this what everyone is paying? Does it work out something like 15% duties and 10% GST?
Thanks

Matthew

[Blacky]

I've done some investigation...
Australian Customs have a very low threshold for imports.

Anything over AUD $250 (compare with the US at $2,000) they will charge you a $49.25 "Compile fee" whatever that is.
There is also the GST component which comes to about AUD $30
To me, that should only be $79.25
Where they get $92 from I do not know.

At around $300, a single FlashScan upgrade is just an unfortunate price. Even a $20,000 product would only incur $49.25. Because FlashScan is *just* over $250 it gets hit with the same $49.25 fee.

We may have to look at bulk shipping FlashScan units to Australia and distributing them from within Australia. That way the entire shipment only gets hit once with one $49.25 fee.

Regards
Paul

[GMPX]

Anything over AUD $250 (compare with the US at $2,000) they will charge you a $49.25 "Compile fee" whatever that is.

Except my PLX WBO2, I got lucky, it just turned up without me having to give the government MORE money.

Cheers,
Ross

[wait4me]

I can Ship out for you guys in the states, If that would save anyone money or time too.