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  • 19-07-2010 2:22pm
    #1
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,514 ✭✭✭✭


    I ordered something online from a site in Norway to the sum of 475 euros recently. Now Norway is not in the European Union but it is in EFTA/EEA etc who have various agreements with the EU regarding free trade. So will I have to pay customs? If I do, will it be the same fee as ordering from say, the USA?


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  • #2
    DYLF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭DYLF


    yes unfortunatly. it may be EAA but still not EU so there will be vat/duty


  • #3
    91011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,383 ✭✭✭91011


    DYLF wrote: »
    yes unfortunatly. it may be EAA but still not EU so there will be vat/duty

    There will be no duty as Norway is part of EFTA (European Free Trade Area) unless the goods are under special duty restrictions such as alcohol, tobacco, perfumes & fuel.

    VAT is applicable at point of entry.


  • #4
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,514 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Oh where were ye two weeks ago!:p Anyway, I got my stuff and no duty/customs to be paid so that was all fine. It's nice to have a definitive answer on this because trawling through the legislation on revenue.ie is such a tough business. What I could glean was that Norway is in the EEA which participates in the EU's free circulation but is not in the customs union which means that it does not charge the same tariff that the EU does when having goods come into circulation from a third country.


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