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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Do I have to pay import duties in Thailand for a container with personal items?
Reader question: Do I have to pay import duties in Thailand for a container with personal items?
Dear readers,
If I want to send a container with personal items to Thailand, do I have to pay import duties? By personal items I mean used bicycles, clothing, books and possibly some furniture and other household goods.
Does anybody have experience with this?
Regards,
Marco
Yes, you as a foreigner have to pay import duties.
If you have a Thai wife or girlfriend who has lived abroad for a while, she can import the items for free.
However, 1 of everything, so not 2 TVs, then you call it 1 monitor…
Here under some explanation of the company that will take my container next week ...
Thailand customs regulation: In order to receive the exception of import duty and tax, the client must qualify under the following rules and laws:
1. The client must have stayed abroad for more than 365 days.
2. The client must not have stayed in Thailand for more than 90 days at any one trip over the previous 1-2 years of the shipment arriving at port.
(Please note that Departure and Arrival Stamps in the client passport is very important for customs process. The client must have all stamps in and out of Thailand stamped in their passport booklet, if they do not have all stamps, they must request this from the Dept. of Customs and Immigration here in Thailand, or we can get this for them when they returns but we must charge THB1, 000 for this service.)
3. The shipment must arrive in Thailand not more than 30 days prior to the owner's arrival and not more than 90 days after their last arrival to Thailand.
4. Client must not have used the import duties and taxes exemption previously.
A. If Client fit this criteria and also provide customs with their original passport booklets, both old and new, and also original Thai ID card for the customs clearance process, they will have exception of import duty and tax on most items.
***Items that will still carry import duty and tax are: all tools, musical instruments, sports and leisure equipment and furniture, and the second or more of any electrical appliances. Only one unit each of such items is eligible for duty free allowance. In case of two or more units of the same category, import duty & tax will be applied.(Calculation based on the average second hand value of item).Example: If you are importing two or more televisions, the first one will be free of charges but the second and more will be charged import duty and tax.***
B. If Client cannot provide original passport booklets and original Thai ID card but submit copy of them only, then the client has to pay import duty and tax in full. (Remarks: depend on how many items.)
Thank you and best regards
woe
Boonma Moving & Storage Co., Ltd. | Inbound Department
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Thank you Jos M that is useful info
We didn't have to pay import tax 10 years ago. A bit under the table because we had 3 TVs, and some other stuff that was actually not allowed
What Jos M informs very fully here is the so-called removal goods exemption. It's one-off.
If you do not fall under these provisions, you will have to pay import duty plus VAT (value plus import duty plus freight plus insurance). The same goes for a Thai national.
A foreigner who moves to Thailand also receives an exemption for used personal property that is transferred to Thailand. The text in Jos M's response only relates to the exemption for Thais returning from abroad after a stay of more than 12 months.
These exemptions have been agreed worldwide within the WCO, the World Customs Organization, of which Thailand is a member.
At that time (11 years ago) we sent a container to Thailand. Basically free of import duties, BUT because there were quite a few (twilight) lamps on the packing list, import duties had to be paid??!!??.
My girlfriend at the time (Thai) was "accused" of being a trader in (twilight) lamps!!! Then you can do 2 things:
1. protest or
2. pay.
If you do option 1, your container will simply remain there. So option 2 (however idiotic) is the only option to get your container through customs. Since we never received a receipt, I assume that the customs officer in question was able to have free whiskey for a while.
More than two years ago, we had a shared container with personal items (no large items, such as a washing machine, sofa, cupboards, etc.) shipped and we did not have to pay any import duties.
But it is still Thailand, so certainly no guarantee that someone else will not have to do the same.
Dear Mark,
We had our first container shipped over four years ago via a recognized Dutch moving company. We did not have to pay import duties. Officially, you can bring personal items into the country within six months after settling in Thailand without paying import duties. In our case, however, that was after a year.
Funny thing is that half a year ago - after selling our house in the Netherlands - we shipped even more household goods with the same recognized international mover. No assessment for import duties received this time either.
Advice: move via a recognized international moving company.
Hello Marco
I shipped my household effects to Thailand more than 4 years ago and hired Windmill Forwarding to take care of this for me. I must say absolutely amazing. It's door to door you don't have to do anything yourself. You hitch a ride with someone who already has all the papers. Another tip, do not take large furniture with you, it takes up a lot of space for which you have to pay while you can buy new ones for that price here in Thailand.
http://www.windmill-forwarding.com/home/
We have also done this with Windmill Forwarding (2017) and have not paid any import duties. But it is better to buy big things in Thailand because you have to pay transport costs and storage.
We also had our stuff shipped to Thailand via Windmill Forwarding 6 years ago and must say really classy. Everything was neatly delivered to us by a local agent who worked for Windmill.
We were deregistered from the Netherlands at the time. We had our partial household effects transported 20 years ago "Door to Door" to Thailand, packed & unpacked and. then you do not have to pay import duties or transport costs in Thailand. You pay everything in the Netherlands with your carrier, so nothing in Thailand!.
Thanks everyone for the responses, I definitely appreciate it.
In my case, Windmill was 1000 euros more expensive than Transpack.nl. my point of contact in NL. At windmill they kept insisting that I should take a shared 40-foot container, while I wanted a 20-foot container with only my own stuff. they were therefore all-risk insured.
On the day of loading, a team of 4 men came and stowed everything neatly in the container.
Dear Mark,
I have had a shipment shipped to Thailand by Windmill 3 times in the last few years. from 3m you can have this taken care of by Windmill. I am 100% satisfied with all shipments. Communication went very well from the very beginning. The goods were packed by myself and were picked up by the transporter who checked everything again. When the shipment, used and new material, was on its way with the sea container, you could follow the shipment via a tracking code. Upon arrival in Bangkok you were immediately and frequently informed by Boonma in the person of Wee. The delivery also went perfectly. All in all very satisfied with Windmill and the next shipment will definitely go to Windmill
Hi Marco, Just like you can read it above, one address “Windmill Forwarding”. They came to measure and discuss 2 X at home in Belgium. Everything is packed, loaded, unloaded and partially unpacked from door to door. Have paid 3990 € for a partial container. Didn't pay any import duties. Date 01/01/2018 !! To give you an idea of what was included: 18000 vinyl singles, 2200 LPs, 6500 CDs, 3000 DVDs, 500 books, 250 comic albums, 1 jukebox, 4 DVD players, 1 Blu-ray player, 3 pick-ups, 1 hi-fi tower , 1 sound machine double CD players, 1 DVD mixer, 1 TV, 1 washing machine, 3 large cupboards, 4 large pioneer boxes, 1 small hi-fi tower, 4 laptops, 1 desk, 1 large ricoh printer, 1 small printer, 2 chests of drawers, 8 boxes clothes, 8 large boxes of household goods, 20 paintings, 6 garden chairs, 1 box of Christmas items, 2 desk lamps, 1 microwave oven, 1 Nespresso coffee machine, 1 rice cooker, 2 Allpress kitchen mixers. 4 boxes of bath, bed, kitchen linen. So I thought Windmill helped me tremendously. If I had paid import duties on everything, I would have been “bankrupt” 😉 …………
Sorry, date should be 01/07/2018……….
I had no idea, but I think the price is still not too bad