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importing wood from china

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  • 27-03-2013 10:51am
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    retenzo12
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    Hi i have a supplier in china who i intend to import wood from. the load will consist of 1 pallet and 75kg. the supplier is only charging me 15usd for sea freight to ireland. the supplier says i just pick up from dublin port. Apart from duty and vat is there any other costs that mau be invovled like a handling fee? Anyone ever pickup direct from the port before?


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    ironclaw
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    Given wood is a natural product, and I could be wrong, you may need to get it certified to bring it into Ireland. No where near as bad as trying to get it into Oz or New Zealand, but all the same you may have to seeing as its outside the EU.

    Also, why are you importing wood? Is it specialized or because its cheaper? As regards sea freight, you'd want to be importing quite a lot to make it worth while (Sea will take a very long time)


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    retenzo12
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭retenzo12


    ironclaw wrote: »
    Given wood is a natural product, and I could be wrong, you may need to get it certified to bring it into Ireland. No where near as bad as trying to get it into Oz or New Zealand, but all the same you may have to seeing as its outside the EU.

    Also, why are you importing wood? Is it specialized or because its cheaper? As regards sea freight, you'd want to be importing quite a lot to make it worth while (Sea will take a very long time)


    Hi it is a bespoke wood which cannot be got for this cheap in ireland. its for personal use so sea freight lead time is not an issue just an additional charges i may incur


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    retenzo12
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭retenzo12


    ironclaw wrote: »
    Given wood is a natural product, and I could be wrong, you may need to get it certified to bring it into Ireland. No where near as bad as trying to get it into Oz or New Zealand, but all the same you may have to seeing as its outside the EU.

    Also, why are you importing wood? Is it specialized or because its cheaper? As regards sea freight, you'd want to be importing quite a lot to make it worth while (Sea will take a very long time)


    Hi it is a bespoke wood which cannot be got for this cheap in ireland. its for personal use so sea freight lead time is not an issue just an additional charges i may incur


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    rainbowdash
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    retenzo12 wrote: »
    Hi i have a supplier in china who i intend to import wood from. the load will consist of 1 pallet and 75kg. the supplier is only charging me 15usd for sea freight to ireland. the supplier says i just pick up from dublin port. Apart from duty and vat is there any other costs that mau be invovled like a handling fee? Anyone ever pickup direct from the port before?


    Do a search for China on this forum and read all about it, there have been many threads on the subject before.

    To give you a ballpark idea, I would budget at least $500 for the freight, including customs documents, bill of lading, port handling, fuel surcharge, suez canal charge, port security charge, agent fees etc. etc., and there are many scams out there where they tell you its $15 and when it gets here the Irish agent has to break the bad news that its way more than that.

    Like I said, do a search and read up on it before you go ahead, but you won't be getting it for $15.


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    ironclaw
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    rainbowdash wrote: »
    Like I said, do a search and read up on it before you go ahead, but you won't be getting it for $15.

    I've had components posted to me from China, and they came in at well over $15. I know pallets and bulk is cheap but $15 is very suspicious to me.

    What type of wood are you looking for by the way? PM if you like as I know a local woodmill and they specialise in very unusual woods, they also are a non-commercial outfit so I doubt they'd turn up on Google.


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