Hi all, we are actually setting off for Poland with humanitarian aid supplies this week and have learned an awful lot over the last few days.
It’s important to separate items into boxes of the same items, measure the dimensions of each box, weigh it, label it and give each box a consignment number (tariff code) which comes from https://data.gov.uk/dataset/8c68d3d1-e506-4f50-835d-949c974aa4ad/uk-tariff-codes
Below is a screen shot of the spreadsheet we created - this needs to be included in your documentation when presenting things to customs. Hope this helps. FYI, we estimated the number of items in each box and gave each item a nominal value of £1. As this is humanitarian aid, then there is no duty due in the EU - but again getting the paperwork right is key to this.
I will post on here after returning from our trip to hopefully confirm that this all went swimmingly well.
It’s important to separate items into boxes of the same items, measure the dimensions of each box, weigh it, label it and give each box a consignment number (tariff code) which comes from https://data.gov.uk/dataset/8c68d3d1-e506-4f50-835d-949c974aa4ad/uk-tariff-codes
Below is a screen shot of the spreadsheet we created - this needs to be included in your documentation when presenting things to customs. Hope this helps. FYI, we estimated the number of items in each box and gave each item a nominal value of £1. As this is humanitarian aid, then there is no duty due in the EU - but again getting the paperwork right is key to this.
I will post on here after returning from our trip to hopefully confirm that this all went swimmingly well.