Transportation Industry
RATE ON GOODS IN TRAVELLERS' LUGGAGE.
Transport Europe, April, 2008
The EU Council adopted, on 17 March, without debate, a regulation adjusting the rate on goods contained in consignments sent by private individuals or in travellers' luggage. The regulation fixes, as from 1 December 2008, the customs duty to be charged on goods contained in consignments sent by one private individual to another, or contained in travellers' personal luggage, at a flat rate of 2,5 % ad valorem, provided that such imports are not of a commercial nature.
This flat rate will apply provided that the intrinsic value of the goods subject to import duty does not exceed 700 per consignment or per traveller. Since 1997, the rate of customs duty for goods imported by travellers in their personal luggage or sent in small consignments to private individuals...
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