Importing of aircraft artefacts Post Brexit

Morning all

many thanks for the advice received, certainly some food for thought

John

A very similar situation was highlighted on Fridays evening news.

in Hungary a British business owner who restores classic cars and imports many parts to Hungary from the UK is now paying an import duty because it’s too complex to list every small item on a mixed consignment. 
it’s happening in both directions across the channel. 

PM sent 🙂

John

John, no experience post-Brexit, and I have participated in similar debates about these part on the previous version of the forum. Below is a full cut and paste job from one of my most recent posts in 2016.

I would suggest that this is the most important point to consider: 

These types of issue are day to day issues with a good freight forwarding company, who can use their knowledge and expertise to guide you through what can be quite a maze of paperwork and regulation.

Email me or call if you would like to discuss the topic one to one!

2016 post:

“Possible EU exit – what impact on historic aviation?

My OP was based on some genuine thoughts on the possible implications of an exit on the movement of aviation goods.

Last autumn I arranged the movement of some aviation items, which also reminded me of the complexities of working outside the EU. That experience was mentioned in another thread about these parts (cannot find it, despite extensive searches) that related to starting a consolidation scheme for historic aviation items. I’ve requoted one of my posts to try and get us back on track!

“This sounds like a great idea and I wish you well. However having recently co-ordinated the importation of a set of ‘mixed aviation items’ from the Southern hemisphere into the UK, I suspect that the idea might be a little more complex than envisaged.

For example different items attract import duties at different rates, while some may be exempt. A similar situation exists between airworthy items and non-airworthy items; IIRC even between helicopter and general aviation parts.

Likewise some items attract VAT, while others don’t. These issues can be difficult to sort out even within a shipment from one consignee, let alone from different consignees.

Similarly who would allocate / decide who picked up the VAT portion of the cost?

From a customs perspective the consignee is responsible for identifying and applying the Commodity Coding to the goods and this could be difficult with ‘mixed-items’, e.g. if one item was mistakenly identified could the whole shipment be impounded? If so who would be responsible for sorting out the issues?

These types of issue are day to day issues with a good freight forwarding company, who can use their knowledge and expertise to guide you through what can be quite a maze of paperwork and regulation.

All that said good luck with trying to set up a scheme.”

Indeed 

I presume that you are speaking of imports from EU countries. Otherwise, I presume that brexit would not have an impact on imports from non-EU countries, which would be as they were pre-brexit.