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Old 21st March 2021, 10:28 PM
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If you order something from FotoImpex in English and give the UK as the delivery address the checkout will show no VAT (Umsatzsteuer or Mehrwertsteuer) so I believe that they are doing everything absolutely correctly.
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I believe the big problem is that the UK Government has made a rule that people where ever the goods sent to the UK, be it from inside the EU or any else in the world, if the goods are valued at £135 or less the sending firm must collect the VAT and register for Vat with the UK, which is expensive, therefor many firms have simply decided that it not worth the extra level cost and trouble so will not send to the UK, many firms in the EU, not just photographic, no longer post to the UK, and will not do so until this is changed by the UK, it is the only country in the world to do this, also itis now a lot more expensive to send from the EU to the uK, A friend of mine ordered a Coat from France, came by courier, when it got to him he faced a further bill for £95 that had to be paid before the item could be delivered, so he simply refused it and it had to be sent back, he got a Refund of the original £100, but the item worth £100 including Vat woubd have ended up costing him £195, the whole system seems a bit of a mess, and until things are sorted out either order in excess of £135 and still expect to pay more on arrivel, including the VAT, collected by the courier,
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Adox / FotoImpex responded to this matter on Photrio.com:

Since we were mentioned I just wanted to add for clarification that we DO SHIP TO THE UK at the moment and CONTINUE TO DO SO.

All we need to avoid is this 135UKP rule so your order has to be >170 EUR. Before apuggers start driving to Calais or even swimming the channel, why don´t you team up and make collective orders?

Since we do not charge you VAT additional costs in total are not prohibitive if you exceed the threshold of 170 EUR all is fine!

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Fotoimpex responded to my request asking what items are now considered 'Dangerous goods':

Our webshop specifies this. It will not let you check out as well and mark those items. In short: Nothing dangerous may be included in a postal parcel. So anything having a classification in Section 9 of an MSDS cannot go.

We try since years to only formulate chems which comply and most of our recent developers and other chemicals can still be ordered. Having it world parcel compatible was the biggest challenge in the new ADOX Scala Kit for example.

Legacy formulations such as Rodinal unfortunately do not comply.

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They also reiterated the postal charges explanation:

- You are not charged German VAT. Only british VAT is colected upon arrival
- You should not be charged additional services except VAT and if aplicable customs because we use (for this reason) world postal service
- You may have to drive to the post office to make this declaration and pay on location though

We are looking into courier options but they will involve a paperwork fee on top of taxes collected.
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