Blah, another post about excessive import duties. Boring, sure, but as heavy and obnoxious as always, and writing them all down gives me a nice record of them.
73% net import tax on 1480kr purchase price.
Bought a 1m strip of WS2812 led strip lighting. $11.11, including shipping, or 1480 kr at today’s rates. 10% import duty, not sure why _this_ gets a duty charge, and not other electronics. It can’t be an ewaste tariff, because none of the other electronics I’ve imported gets it, so I can only presume it’s protecting the nascent (non-existant) icelandic led strip manufacturing industry. 25% VSK, Ok, expecting this, that’s just what VSK is. and then the glorious 550kr fixed handling charge. Some parcels get this, some don’t. No way to control it, so no way to know in advance whether you should buy more on an order or not. Hooray for consistency.
Total sum of charges: 550+386+146 = 1082 kr giving us an effective net import tax of just over 73%. Excellent. I love inconsistently applied regulations.
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