Importing from the US

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Stevo2006

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can anyone help?

I am looking to import a ride on lawnmower from the states as they are much, much cheaper than here. I am told that they are duty free but i obviously have to pay VAT on it.

Now how do i go about organising this and does anyone know of transport companies that will collect, ship and deliver to an address in Ireland?

Thanks in advance!
 
Hi Steve,
I work for a shipping company in Shannon. You will need to provide place of collection, size and weight of lawnmower to get a price. It is relatively easy once you have those details. I think that lawnmowers are Duty applicable, you can check it out on [broken link removed]
although and you are correct in being liable for 21% Vat.
PM me if you have any queries/questions
Angelina
 
Stevo2006 said:
can anyone help? I am looking to import a ride on lawnmower from the states as they are much, much cheaper than here.
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Considering transport costs, VAT etc. Is it really worthwhile to go down this route? Is it a model available here? What if it goes wrong? Just raising these questions. I don't have any experience of importing a large item from the states.
 
Grifter,

I am trying to get prices etc to see if it is worthwhile doing at the minute but to answer a couple of your questions:
Yes the model is available here
If it breaks it will be under warrenty regardless of what country its in
The exact model is approx 1/2 the price in the states, i.e. €1500 cheaper so its definitly worth investigating!!
 
sears and also home depot are good aswell.

does anyone know a good company to ship with?
 
there could be a small business in it and i wonder if you have afew people interested her would it be worth clubbing together on the shipping cost..
 
if you look up home depot a 300 dollar lawn mower sells for over 600 euro here. nd thats after home depot make a profit. can someone look up the import duty. if they were imported for next may then it would work
 
I checked about the import duty and was told that there was none!! Although the girl i spoke to in customs & excise wasn't too convincing. With this in mind can anyone tell us what the shipping costs would be?
The weight of one would be around 250 kgs
 
ther will have to be some sort of duty on improting, them.any improt from the us is subject to vat or something. the best way would be for some company over there to ship them ina container, say 12 - 24 lawnmowers!
 
Stevo2006,

I had a look here - and I classified the goods as commodity code 8436800000 OTHER Machinery involved in horticulture (as there was nothing for Grass cutting machinery or Lawnmowers), and the duty rate was 1.7%, of course you would need to clarify the exact commodty code with C&E in Nenagh, Co.Tipp.

You would pay 1.7% duty on the Shipping cost and the sales invoice total, VAT is also applicable regardless of whether duty is. 21% VAT.
 
have you priced the shipping? I would say the chunk of your savings would be taken up by the shipping cost
 
Taric head is 8433 11 51 -- With a seat 0% Customs duty.

Would bringing in commercial quantities cause legal wrangles with official distributors ?

Would you not get a decent discount from local distributor if purchasing large quantities ?
 
a 40ft container will cost about 2000 euro at a guess - all in.
 
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