EU Anti Dumping Tax

[friendly1uk]

Does anyone understand the anti dumping charge criteria?

Anti-Dumping Duty (ADD) is an import duty charged in addition to normal customs duty and is applied across the whole European Community. It is designed to allow the EC to take action against goods that are sold at less than their normal value - that being defined as the price for 'like goods' sold in the exporter’s home market.

Say I buy from a chinese factory at the price chinese people would buy (I see no reason to get better prices) Would I have to pay the 50% ADD markup when I get them back to the UK? I wouldn't of said so. But then who is going to pay if not me.

I have a few scenario's. Such as a chinese person buying in china then posting to me. Or me buying from there ebay getting no preferential prices because they don't even know I'm not chinese till I pay.

I'm thinking that buying from there ebay can't possibly pick up this charge, and might not be 50% more than factory gate prices.


Obviously I'm thinking of buying a few bikes to test the water. I think I have some good marketing ideas, but ebay uk will deliver a bike to me for $600 Which I can't get near if a $300 chinese bike gets a %50 levey, plus the usual 20% levy, and needs shipping added before this 70% price increase.

 

[Dauntless]

So it's no longer trendy to use Russian as the mother tongue of Socialism, which was born in France anyway. But obsessive protectionism is a basic tenent. They can hardly protect their rightful market by NOT making you pay for your crime of not being THEIR product, now can they? It's so hard when the rest of the world won't let you make the rules.

You'll never know if eBay will work until you try it. Is their an import duty on GIFTS? Or is that only done when shipping to the U.S.?

Import duties are traditionally the last refuge of the unproductive government. In the early 1930's the Great Depression was over for most of the world, but FDR was screwing around with Social Engineering in the U.S. and driving the country down. So they got this big idea: SMOOT HAWLEY! Big import duty, that'll solve everything. Oops, didn't work. . . .

So they might have laws guaranteeing them happiness even if they're enormous failures in the eyes of their ancestors, but these things have to be paid for. Laws against laying off workers, even if no one is buying, hmmm. Isn't that what destroyed the American auto industry? Imagine ALL your business was GM, Ford, Chrysler, etc.

Da. I mean. . . .

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[friendly1uk]

Sorry I was not very clear.
Ebay have one in the UK that can be on my doorstep this week for £400 ($600). The cheapest bike comes from germany for £300 ($450), But it's a small folding step through with a 6.5kg lead battery taking it to 29kg or something equally hard to believe. These would be my competitors at the affordable end of the market. £300 for rubbish, £400 basic or £500 full suspension are the base prices I'm seeing. I would like to compete with them prices through an existing shop, and shop prices round here start at £1200 for a £500 cyclomatic. They actually tried to sell me a used one for £600.

I would take the chance if it was just one bike. A 50% increase on a container full is my entire profit eaten up though. As containers full is the eventual goal, I need to know if it is possible. The ebay bike might be from other peoples containers full just being sold on at cost as they ordered to many. Or to get rid of them at the end of cycling season.


I guess the people that know about this might not want to share. It would be understandable.

 

[friendly1uk]

I think I will be OK. While the legislation is in place to nail me, The eu bike manufacturers have failed to make a case stick.
http://antidumping.vn/news/2013-05-28/eu-drops-threat-anti-subsidy-tariffs-chinese-bicycles