I buy and ship parts/cars from US to Finland, Europe.
I use freight forwarder in all 4 sides of the large country.
Have ship to address in NY, CA, FL and TX.
Also use priority air freight services.
Paying I use Pay Pal or Swift check throuh banks. Or have one of my freight guy's to do it.
I write Swift check to seller on my web bank with official form. They then send it to New York and from there it will be printed and sended as registered letter to seller. Has worked for years.
Importing to EU is expensive. Need to pay 10-25% import tax (depends of the part type) and then 24% vat. Ita like this:
Part price(+possible inland shipping) + over seas freight x import tax%
then part price (+inland shipping)+ over seas freight + import taxes x24 VAT
Shipping with containers there is little or no room for dealing. Exsample Miami customs moves containers very easilly to further clarification area and that costs 600$/day. Manifests have to have right amount of pallets, right weight and right amount of receits. So pretty easy to lose than gain.
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, Juhani
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