I buy Assam from a specialist tea shop, there are two in town and the most of the bio shops also stock it en vrac.
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It seems to be the one thing our local tea shop doesn’t supply. Interesting that the bio shops down your way do… I shall have a more careful hunt!
Thanks vero, I shall have a look round at bio shops and then try contacting Victoria’s if there’s nothing local.
Getting back to the subject of the thread:
I thought I’d give it a try, ordered some stuff from Natures Best.
At first the order went through, then a few days later they sent this email:
"Thank you for your recent order.
Regrettably, from immediate effect, we have had to temporarily suspend all dispatches to European destinations. Although, we had been dispatching and providing customs with the appropriate declarations and categorization of our products, we are now experiencing difficulties with the need for additional requirements from the EU border and from our logistics partners.
Please be assured that we are working hard to resolve these issues and hope to be able to continue to provide your products to you very soon. As we do not have a definitive timeline for solving the issues, unfortunately we have had to cancel your current order and have arranged for a full refund. "
This was nearly a month ago. Haven’t heard anything since.
Is the EU doing this on purpose as revenge?
Says the border but not if it was the EU or the UK
NO, they are just applying normal rules as per all non EU countries, why should the UK be treated differently. They have totally dug thier own pit.
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But I thought the Great Brexit Deal meant that the EU wouldn’t apply normal rules as per all non EU countries, who trade on WTO rules, and the UK would thus avoid such difficulties. Or did I miss something?
It was all lies, nothing more just lies!
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Is the EU doing this on purpose?
What a daft question, of course it is, the rules and purpose have not changed though - what has changed is that we were a member of the club so a different and much more relaxed set of rules applied and now we are not a member of the club and the rules for “not members” apply.
The lie was that the EU would cook up a special status of “ex member” and let us stick to the old rules “for old time’s sake”, or perhaps because they were so desperate for our custom.
Are they doing it on purpose as revenge?
Why on earth would they? No, it is not revenge - stop reading the Express. It is what we asked for and signed up to, nothing more, nothing less.
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No. The great british deal means the UK is no longer in the customs union, and only agreed tariffs on a small number of goods. So everything else has hurdles to jump.
Any idea what goods?
Amazon.fr 16.99EUR - lots of other matches for differing sizes etc
Amazon identification number - use it in the search
B001QJAYD2
This site gives you i port and export codes;tariffs
I just had something delivered from China. It cost less than 22 Euros. I ordered it from Rakuten and didn’t realize it was coming from China until after I had paid. According to the tracking it cleared customs in less than half an hour. Why can’t I do the same with the UK?
I received a refund from Amazon today against their estimate of import fees on an Amazon UK order. This is a first time for me.
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interesting occurrence just now. Ordered two books from a UK book seller, declared second hand value £60 on invoice. DHL wanted to charge me about €35 …what for i don’t know, they just showed me a list of items with amounts against each one totalling €35. There was no CN22 form showing, only an invoice.
I recently bought two new books from Amazon (£40) in UK with only about a £1 import deposit and I paid normal postage.
Told DHL initially that I wouldn’t pay as it was wrong, then offered a card, nor acceptable, wanted cash or a cheque, I insisted he left the package and told him to come back Monday for cash…wonder if he will…he didn’t understand my v poor French and I couldn’t follow why he wanted the money. Are these DHL handling charges as French import is not €35 on €70 (£60).!
In our experience DHL are not reliable.
Probably - it was always a thing with non-EU purchases that were above the duty/VAT thresholds but never noticed by most people. Now that the UK is out of the EU it’s become much more visible to people both sides of the Channel.
Unfortunately, only 48% of people who voted in the EU referendum managed to predict that this sort of thing would be a problem if we left.
Tax on books here i think is 5%…I think most of the charge is a the pleasure of DHL.
Trouble is its not possible to tell a supplier who to use!
hummm we did once - we told Amazon France not to use a particular delivery agent as they kept losing our stuff and they complied!
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