What would be the tariff classification of an FPGA development board?

I let my stuff be shipped under 8537. None ever cared. I guess they have certain triggers on agriculture, fishery, iron, you name them. Where subsidies protect closed markets. The rest is not worth checking except for value, the VAT value.

I once wanted to get an export paper for stuff I transported by car and thus sent a piece of alu sheet metal with a tag and a part number as dummy. Together with valid invoice and customs papers. They, the customs, called me and complained that the stated 600$ for this alu were not real. And I replied that they don't have to care as long as the customer pays for it.

Rene

Hi Rene,

Thanks for the tip, 8537.10.10

Jacques

Rene Tschaggelar wrote:

I just got a shipment from digikey. Some TTL-ICs, PICs, Flash, resistors, capacitors, etc... I only had to pay the VAT on everything except the ceramic oscillators. There was 3.7% tariff on the oscillators. That was a shipment from the USA to the EU a few weks ago.

Philipp

Hi Philipp,

oscillators might be VAT exempted, but still with tariff. Was it written explicitly on the invoice that tariff was applied?

Jacques

I got the components first, a few days later I received an invoide from customs. It says they estimated the value (invoice value - estimated fraction of shipment costs) of the oscillators to be 41.45 ?. On this value there was a tariff of 3.7%. It says the value for VAT calculation (invoice value + tariff) is 48.38 ?. On this value there was a VAT of 16%.

So I had to pay both tariff and VAT for the oscillators, but VAT only for the rest.

Philipp