Customs Duty and importing a mount

[billdan (Bill)]

Back in Feb I ordered a MESU 200 Mount from Amsterdam.

Lucas Mesu has now emailed me, saying he is ready to ship and needs to know what description to put on the invoice for customs declaration.

He sent me a link on CN discussing the same situation.

http://www.cloudynights.com/topic/53...s#entry7158450

I did have a look on our Customs website but found nothing regarding mounts.

Otherwise I can tell Lucas just describe it as a spare part for a telescope.

Any other suggestions?

Cheers
Bill

[Kunama]

Schedule 3
Reference number 9005. Telescopes monoculars binoculars and mounting for such

9005.90.00
Mountings for telescopes ........... Free

[clive milne]

Before you pay anything, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umVj5XQYAi8

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Oooh nice choice. Interesting mount that. I didn't realise mounts were exempt from duty when buying my Avalon, so that was a nice surprise.

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Free of import duty, BUT you will still have to pay the GST on it (assuming that it is over $1000 which is a fairly safe bet!!)

Malcolm

[Kunama]

Originally Posted by barx1963

Free of import duty, BUT you will still have to pay the GST on it (assuming that it is over $1000 which is a fairly safe bet!!)

Malcolm

Yes, the GST is payable on the total of the cost of mount+freight cost .

[billdan (Bill)]

You're a legend Matt, thanks for the reference number which I will pass on to Lucas.

Clive I'm halfway through the video (bit of a shock).

Yes I knew about the GST, the mount including options I ordered and shipping and insurance to my door is Euro5,400, approx $8,300 before GST.

Thanks everyone for your input.

Regards
Bill

[clive milne]

Originally Posted by billdan

Clive I'm halfway through the video (bit of a shock).

That's just the tip of the iceberg my friend...

[netwolf]

Good video thx. Need to check the facts.

[skysurfer]

Originally Posted by billdan

Back in Feb I ordered a MESU 200 Mount from Amsterdam.

Why did you import it from Amsterdam / EU and not direct from China ?
Probably it is cheaper (as it is manufactured there) so you pay less import duty.

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Originally Posted by clive milne

Before you pay anything, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umVj5XQYAi8

That video did my head in

[billdan (Bill)]

Skysurfer - The MESU 200 is manufactured by Lucas Mesu in Amsterdam, nothing to do with China.

The problem with the video is that is an underground video, if it was really accurate then Main Stream Media would have ran with it and belted the Politicians with awkward questions.

I don't have the time to research its accuracy, but if it is true then it is disgraceful.

Cheers
Bill

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by billdan

The problem with the video is that is an underground video, if it was really accurate then Main Stream Media would have ran with it and belted the Politicians with awkward questions.

Yeah Moon conspiracy stuff I am afraid

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeah Moon conspiracy stuff I am afraid

... But it must be TRUE ...I saw it on YouTube ...

[clive milne]

Originally Posted by billdan

The problem with the video is that is an underground video, if it was really accurate then Main Stream Media would have ran with it and belted the Politicians with awkward questions.

Bill, you do realise that this is a logical fallacy?

If you want to put your faith in the media to the test,
Google these search strings:

Lavon affair
Mukden Incident
Turkish consulate 1955
King David Hotel bombing
Gleiwitz Incident
Katyn forest
Franz Halder Reichstag fire (Nuremberg trials)
Free Syria committee
USS Liberty
Mainila Russia 1939
Field Manual 30-31B
Operation Mockingbird
Gulf of Tonkin
Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu Cyprus mosque
Operation Ajax
George Smathers Castro
Cointelpro
27 July 1989 Joubert Park
Celle hole
Victor Ostrovsky Trojan dick trick
Groupe Islamique Armé Jan 13th 1995
Chechnya bombing kgb
Macedonia faked 'militant' raid
Genoa violence 2001 G8 agent provocateur
Bruce Ivins Mossad suicide
Scooter Libby Valerie Plame
Operation Paperclip
Iraq ISIS Baretta serial numbers
Operation Glass Houses IDF agent provocateurs
Quebec police undercover Montebello
London G20 undercover police
Cairo museum looters identification cards
Goldman Sachs Libya Sarkozy
Colonel Luis Fernando Borja
Ambrose Evans Pritchard Prince Bandar bin Sultan
Sarin coming from turkey
Kiev Sniper
Why does ISIS only attack Israel's enemies
Andrew Wilkie Whistle Blower
Patrick Tillman
Serena Shim
Danny Cosolaro
Gary Webb
DC Madame
Lt. Col. Marshall A. Gutierrez
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General Dave Petraeus
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Clifford Baxter
David Kelly
James Hatfield
Margie Schoedinger
Danny Jowenko
Cliff Baxter
Paul Wellstone
Hale Boggs
David Kelly
Nick Begich
Brandy Britton (and her attorneys: william Blackford & Chris Flohr)
Tahir Elci
Raymond Lemme
Paul Sanford
Andrew Collins
PFC LaVena Johnson
Frank Olson
Sgt Terry Yeakey OK City officer
Seal Team 6
Sen. John Tower, Sen. John Heinz, Ron Brown

[clive milne]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeah Moon conspiracy stuff I am afraid

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

... But it must be TRUE ...I saw it on YouTube ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_lapidem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moralistic_fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philos...urden_of_proof

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argume...#False_analogy

And my personal favourite....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliché...ng_clich.C3.A9

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Oh Clive.....dear me...come on, seriously?

I thought you were just having a light hearted jibe...are you serious?

Mike

[DarkArts]

Originally Posted by Kunama

Yes, the GST is payable on the total of the cost of mount+freight cost .

... + any insurance as well.

It's the fact that GST is based on the total not just the amount over $1000 that gets me.

Oh well, I guess we'll add the tax department to those we'll put up against the wall when the revolution comes ...

[clive milne]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Oh Clive.....dear me...come on, seriously?

I thought you were just having a light hearted jibe...are you serious?

Mike

Mike,
I am serious in suggesting that irrespective of where the truth lies, employment of logical fallacies (including an appeal to incredulity - which you just did) proves nothing...
They are in fact nothing more than a comforting form of self deception, and a lazy way to avoid the application of reason.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by clive milne

Mike,
I am serious in suggesting that irrespective of where the truth lies, the application of logical fallacies (including an appeal to incredulity - which you just did) proves nothing...
They are in fact nothing more than a comforting form of self deception, and a lazy way to avoid the application of reason.

He he no worries, no harm intended, the video just seemed a bit far fetched to me. You know the old saying, "if it sounds like BS..?.. it probably is" or something like that ...kind of a variation of Occams Razzor

Mike