$100,000 Archery products back to China cost me $50,000 in fees - Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- I discuss importing a container from China into Australia. When the container arrives it has $200 worth of sling shots and ball bearings inside. The customs agent said these items are prohibited and need to be returned.
I get my first bill of $14,000 to return the container followed by a bill of $32,000 for import duties into China for the return of the items.
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Completely insane. I'm sorry this happened to you. Why couldn't Australian customs just tell you and remove the slingshots? The modern world is so stupid I fail to understand it.
why couldn't customs just confiscate at the border?
Get a new customs broker. It's his job to prevent these exact situations!
ditto! yeah sounds fishy (no pun inteded). Id double check freight and broker companies. Or get into freight! Otherwise have the chinese companies use their shipping methods instead. Sorry to hear this
4:00 That's odd behavior of a shipping company. They don't take carry any extra credit for customers. Lol they are not a bank... And unsure how they keep insurance if they give false approvals that never should have happend.
Thats crazy Steven. I.hope it gets sorted cheap as possible and soon.
WOW!Welcome to dystopia,have a nice holiday
This country has gone to the dogs and next door neighbour just got $140,000 bill for pre construction test excavations looking for aboriginal artefacts which of course there were none because the property has been used for all sorts of different purposes overthe last 80 years. It’s bureaucracy out of control.
Here in Canada, our PM claimed there's a bunch of aboriginal bodies under churches... Not a single body has been found yet.......
Oh Noo. As soon as our government over here, The USofA, hears of this nonsense they will no doubt have their brother in laws create native American excavation companies, heavily invest in them, and then release their furor on the American populace.
Major bummer... Red tape is killing small businesses
yeh it wasn't imported ie passed customs so no tax is applicable... there trying to tax items not Australian, which they cant do.. so its just a basic c0ck-up
the company who's already paid, well there just trying to pressurise you.... they should just look into that fee being returned & everything will be fine (but they'll try there best to pass the book & make you accountable as its easier then going against customs & duty fees etc)
I would love to visit Australia, but I wouldn't want to do business there or Los Angeles or New York- just to be fair.
I'd love to visit too but.... The TSA at the airport.
Freight forwarding companies work in the hundreds of dollars margin for brokerage , there is no way that they would pay $32k on your behalf especially without your approval, I wouldn’t be paying it and I would be finding a new forwarder or just deal directly with the lines in future , sounds very suspect to me
Wow absolutely preposterous
Aren't arrows projectiles? This sound like a lawsuit to me...what's the difference?
So slingshots arebad..but crossbows and vertical bows are good...
Is Australia going to ban stones next?
Jesus wept! Wes Craven would not come up with THIS horror story!!!
You good people in Australia need a new government.
Assault Bearings.... EEK!!
Hexavalent chromium is now banned in the EU. I believe that ban not only covers EU manufacturing but also the import/export.
Hexavalent chromium is used for ball bearings.
Contact some top level politicians. This is stupid that they cannot just remove the items
We abuse our Customs officials in Pakistan for such type of behaviours, but from your video its seems they are all like that. they can also detain and crush the goods causing problem to them and countrys import policy, and keep you happy and smiling instead of such depressed mode.
Interesting video. Thanks.
Strength to you mate.
Would it have been easier to get them confiscated at customs?
Dude...what an f'ing mess. Somehow it rings bells with me as government overreach BS, but I could be wrong. What happens if you don't pay it? I suspect you get nothing and are out the entire 100K+ WTF !!! Makes me glad I am retired.
😂. Sounds like prodcts from China aren't that cheap...😅
So do manufacturers have to have special licenses to get ball bearings for their products now? Sounds like a California thing to me.
He explained in the first video that the ball bearings become projectiles if shipped together with slingshots or the like. Makes sense but there should be a better way to handle it. I think they offered to confiscate the slingshots but there was a large cost associated with unpacking the whole container and look for the slingshots. Less than 50k though. Also if he didn't return the container he would get flagged as someone who imports "dangerous" items. Shitty all around.
They had no authority to pay on your behalf. You are not liable.
Moral of the tale: don't sell slingshots.
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Part 2
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You sent the container without getting a full and detailed quote? That’s on you. Broker made a mistake and paid incorrect duties? That’s on them. It’s not that complicated.
Is this at a port? Go there and accidentally drop the whole box of ball bearings off the peer. What a scam. Ultimately, you didn't ask for, or order, ball bearings or sling shots. Tell the China company it's on them and wash your hands.
There's nobody to talk to that's a higher up in the shipping Department nobody that you could talk to at all I would contact an attorney do you guys not have them
Absolute insanity
If they added the slingshots and "ammo" as a gift, then 100% make them pay for all of this mess. If they wont, then I would assume this was done knowing this would happen and cut ties with the company who has put you in this predicament.
You might not get as good as deal with a new supplier at first, but China is vast in what you are seeking, and someone will fill the gap very quickly.
Ouch
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Dont pay
Youl get traeted like a mug if you do
The Australians are so scared of random seeds.
Im suprised the tsa dont hold people until they have been to the toilet 3 times.
What if someone entered Australia after eating a fruit with seeds... Seeds happily pass thru the digestive system without being destroyed.
What if they have to go in the middle of nowhere and dig a hole?
Ye go usa astrala has become a crap hole
lmao..thats what u get for buying from china lol
This country is pathetic. Ashamed is an understatement.
Dont australa make stuf no more
We make some much stuff, but its from China.
Shit Stephen, you are bending over backwards to run a business and they want you to bend over forwards...
Every business has risk.
Why are you crying ..?!
My goodness man I’d just move to the united states
We feel your grief 😭 there just making money from a good Aussie trying to live life to benifit others selling good products.
I really don't like Aussie anymore, sadly your government gone mad