International
Can I prepay the duties and taxes for my customer?
If you're shipping to a foreign country and you're worried about the customer getting hit with a separate bill for duties, taxes, and brokerage fees, then in some cases you can prepay them and have the charges billed to your Shipvine account. There ...
Can I lower the declared customs value to avoid duties and taxes?
Short answer: No! Long answer: When Shipvine ships an order to a foreign country, we have to generate a customs declaration or commercial invoice containing information about the products, such as the declared customs value, the country of origin, ...
What is a de minimis threshold?
If you're shipping an order to a foreign country, the de minimis threshold is the value at which the destination country will start assessing duties and taxes. If the retail value of the parcel is under the de minimis threshold, then the customer ...
What kind of duties, taxes, and brokerage fees will my customer have to pay?
When shipping internationally, we recommend including verbiage on your e-commerce site that warns customers about the potential for duties, taxes, and brokerage fees if the retail value of the package exceeds the destination country's de minimis ...
What is the country of origin?
When you set up an item group in Shipvine Logistics, you need to declare the country of origin. It's the country where your product was manufactured or produced. It is not necessarily the country you are exporting the item from. If the product is ...
What is a harmonized code?
A harmonized code is a number that identifies a particular type of product or commodity for customs purposes. The code used affects the taxes and duties that the destination country assesses on the customer based on the value declared on the customs ...