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plus99 · Joined: 30 Dec 2007

I just got an email from customs saying that I need to pay the delivery person about 80,000 won for a 400$ US clothing shipment. The tariff on clothing is 23% apparently. There were some people on here who thought it was 10% so you might want to take this into consideration before you have orders shipped here.

hogwonguy1979 · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den

plus99 · Joined: 30 Dec 2007

yeah, the worst part about it is that they include the shipping charges, which were like 60$ US on their own. I called and was like "Why dont you just take a percentage of the value of the actual products, what does shipping cost have to do with it?" and the women said there was no way around it. thats a pretty big difference on the cost of a purchase.

komtengi · Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Location: Slummin it up in Haebangchon

yeah I've imported gear here for along time, and its the biggest pain in the arse...
23% and there's a reason gear is so expensive

driftingfocus · Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Location: Boston, MA

Is the tariff on used clothing less?

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

cangel · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: Jeonju, S. Korea

Don't forget that the post office includes the cost of shipping when calculating tariff. I lived in Japan for 7 years and never once paid a tariff. Nice little scam the Koreans have worked out for themselves. It's one thing if this country offered wetsern sizes but they don't - at least not in any variety and at a resonable cost.

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject:

I've recieved about 10 orders from landsend and llbean in the last 6 months, and always kept them under $150, for the value of goods. haven't had to pay a dime in tariffs.

driftingfocus · Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Location: Boston, MA

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

It's 60% on many electronic goods.

Gotta make sure Samsung and the chaebols get their cut of the import duties.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

EFLTeacher · Joined: 05 Mar 2008

Can't you get around that if you have the products ship to an address in America and then someone can mail it to you from their home address?

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

ryouga013 · Joined: 14 Sep 2007

I didn't have much problems with the items I had sent to me, it totaled over the $150 but only with everything in the box and it was so mixed up that they probably thought it was a pointless to try to fidn out how much to charge.

At least duty on food and supplements aren't implemented. At least I haven't seen them when ordering through a Korean site for my stuff... W5000 for international shipping... hell yeah Very Happy

Seoul_Star · Joined: 04 May 2007

I found out about the Nazi tariffs when they (korean Customs) took my x-mas package from home and demanded some obscene taxes on the package, which was declared as a gift, had no price tags, and was clearly wrapped. I was yet again disgusted by dodgy Korea when I had to pay taxes on my own Christmas gift from back home, which turned out to be just a pair of shoes, a jacket, and a wallet, valued at less than $400. Since that point, every package I have ever gotten from a business or individual has been opened, and korean Customs has put their filthy little mitts all over it.