Depending on the policy of each country, the package may be subject to customs duty or value-added tax when you receive your reward, and you will be responsible for the relevant costs. For US and EU backers, to learn more about the customs duties and taxes, please read the information below:
HS CODE
The first six digits of the HS code is 847759.
EU
- For Preorder Users - The tax/VAT fee is already included in the product price. Therefore, EU preorder users won’t need to pay additional fees when receiving the package.
- For Kickstarter Backers - We don’t collect any taxes before shipping. We will ship all rewards from China to backers worldwide. Although rewards for the EU backers won’t be shipped from within the EU, EU backers do not need to worry about the customs procedure since goods will have already been cleared customs by logistics company and be delivered to your address directly. Therefore, EU backers need to pay a relevant customs duty or VAT when receiving the reward. The customs duty and VAT rates vary depending on the policy of your local customs office.
US
- As we know, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative recently published a list of 3,805 products (Chinese goods) that could be hit with the additional tariffs. The 3D printer is on this list. That means goods are worth more than $800 will not be exempt from additional taxes. We all hope that the tariffs will go away by the time we ship out the rewards to you. However, if the additional tariffs were in place at the time you receive the goods/rewards, you would be responsible to pay this fee.
- The duty-free importation of personal-use may be applicable to some US pledges. For example, if the declared value of the goods is under $800, it’ll be duty-free.
Comments
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This information does not seem to be accurate for US? Also Snapmaker should really be more transparent on tariff costs and not make people search for the following information. Currently tariff is at a significant 35% (+ $420.00 at current pre-order price for A350) for HS code 847759, according to https://hts.usitc.gov. Also according to HTS, the 3D printer under 847759 is NOT on the additional tariff (15%) list. Quote from "China Tariffs.pdf" from HTS: https://hts.usitc.gov/view/China%20Tariffs?release=2019HTSARev12 and HS numbers before and after the missing 847759.
"Search for an 8-digit subheading of interest; if it appears on this list, products in that subheading are subject to the 15 percent additional duty.
8472.90.50
8476.89.00
8478.10.00
8478.90.00"
Bottom line; what is the actual HTS number and current tax/fee going to be on a US order of (a) A150, (b) A250, and (c) A350?
Sorry, but I'm not pre-ordering an up to $1300 (arguably VERY cool) machine that may or may not be subject to a several hundred dollar "tax fine" that "we all hope will go away" before it ships.
Took a few time to look into it, but the info didnt seem to follow. But have a look to what I have found that is updated to current status.
https://www.ecomcrew.com/trumps-china-tariffs/
What do you have to pay for when you order it from Germany?
In June 2020, the website https://hts.usitc.gov/?query=847759 shows the tariff at 3.1%.
On ne peut pas savoir combien va nous coûter cette machine avec les droits de douanes et la taxe, ç'est un manque de transparence de la part de Snapmaker
I had to pay an additional 221 eur for Belgium. Really annoying but nothing to do about it
I had to pay an additional 255.76 euro for delivering the A350 to Belgium.
This article is frustratingly non-informative. "we all hope" ... "you will be responsible to pay the fee" tell me nearly nothing specific on what I should expect and how I should be prepared to respond.
I'm in the USA. I preordered an A350 in December 2019. I mistakenly got rid of the email connected with my original order and so I actually don't remember the precise price that I paid.
_HOW MUCH_ With regard to the tariff, what % applies to my particular purchase? Does the tariff apply to the entire price or does the tariff only apply to amounts above the $800 mentioned above? Is the tariff assessed based on my early/discount purchase price, or on a full retail price on a 'value of the goods' basis?
_WHEN_ is the tariff assessed, _WHO_ will ask me for the payment, and _HOW_ do I pay the payment? In other words, will I receive a message from Snapmaker, or will I get a message from US Customs telling me that my printer is 'being held hostage' somewhere until I pay a fee to US Customs?
I'd really like to have clarity on the above so that:
1) I can plan and budget for what I will need to pay, and when I will need to pay it, so that I will be ready and able to pay it
2) I will be able to watch for any legitimate communication, and be able to recognize it as a legitimate communication and know that it is not a scam. Random or unclear solicitations for payment will seem like scams, and might even get sequestered by my email spam filter where I will never see them.
3) I won't be at risk of my printer getting 'tied up' somewhere because I didn't know how to watch for and respond in the appropriate way at the appropriate time.
I think that this is a great product and I really look forward to it but to me it's a minimum of basic customer service and product support to provide information to make these things fully and precisely clear to the customer.
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