New customs rules
DHL again sends online orders to the USA
With relatively high customs sets, the USA is asking Europe to checkout, which also applies to online orders. In view of the complicated new rules, package companies initially largely stopped shipping.
After a four -week break, the logistician DHL again sends packages to the USA on behalf of corporate customers. In August, the company had drawn the emergency brake and largely set the shipping due to new American customs regulations – corporate customers were only able to send shipments to the USA by significantly more expensive express service.
Now DHL announced that it will resume postal shipping to the United States for business customers from Thursday. As part of a service called “Postal Duty Paid”, DHL offers customs formalities and – as required by the USA – offers an external service provider on board.
The price remains the same, but the customs regulations add additional costs. For example, if you take a goods ordered on the Internet, which was manufactured in Germany and is worth $ 50, fees and tariffs of a total of a little more than ten dollars are due. If the goods sent by an online retailer have been produced in China, it becomes more expensive because a higher duty rate is due.
Many packages from private individuals remain duty
For consumers who want to give up packages themselves and want to send them to the USA, nothing changes at first: packages that you declare as gifts and whose content is less than $ 100 are still duty -free. If the content is more valuable, customs is due – DHL continues to transport these programs as a package, but only as an express broadcast.
However, the majority of the package quantities are about shipments from business customers – for example, about goods that order consumers online and then handed over to DHL and other postal companies for transport by dealers. At the end of August, the United States had abolished duty freedom for goods imports with a value of less than $ 800. In addition to DHL, other European postal companies – such as the Austrian Post – initially severely restricted shipping in order to cope with the new situation and to install an uncomplicated system for processing the package quantities.
dpa
Source: Stern
