Customs outside the EU: two borders that do not run together

The demand at the door is the normal case abroad, so a delivered price is not a price — it is an estimate with a second invoice behind it. Across a customs border shukchok delivers duty paid: what you saw when you ordered is what arrives.

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Two maps, one delivery

The carrier presents nothing afterwards — but only one of the two borders decides that

Most people picture one European border. There are two, and they do not coincide: the customs territory determines where duty arises, the VAT territory where the common VAT rules apply.

The Canary Islands belong to the customs territory but not to the VAT territory — goods moving there cross no customs border in the ordinary sense yet leave the common tax area. Monaco is the mirror image: not an EU member state, but part of the customs territory through France.

For your delivery clause the customs territory is what counts, because that is the only line at which duty arises. Beyond it we deliver duty paid: duty and import charges are collected during the order and stand in the total, and the carrier presents nothing afterwards. Which delivery term applies to an item is stated on the item.

Determined from the destination country, not from whether somewhere feels European
A commodity code on all 114 items makes the figure calculable in advance
Later changes in rates or exchange rates create no claim (clause 8.4)

Why the figure holds

What makes the total calculable before you commit

A commodity code on every item
All 114 items carry one. Without it there is nothing to apply, and the calculation would have to be deferred to the border — which is where surprise invoices come from.
Origin, as far as the calculation needs it
The origin data feeding the duty calculation is not a preferential origin statement. For that, ask per position rather than per range.
No re-billing by the carrier
Under DDP the charges are settled with the order. A later change in duty rates or exchange rates does not create a claim in either direction — clause 8.4 of our terms says so explicitly.
Your own clearance stays possible
Where you declare the goods yourself under your own authorisation, procedure or exemption, clause 8.3 does not apply and you carry the import charges. Say so before you order, not after.

Four destinations

What happens where

Three ordinary cases and one that needs an individual answer. The delivery clause is stated on the order document in every case.

Duty and import charges are determined from the commodity code, the country of origin, the goods value and the destination. The amount shown during checkout is the amount that applies.
Destination	Examples	Delivery clause	What happens to charges
Germany	Domestic delivery	DAP	No customs procedure; VAT at the statutory rate
Inside the EU customs territory	Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, Monaco	DAP	No duty and no import charges; VAT depends on your VAT ID
Outside the EU customs territory	Switzerland, United Kingdom, Norway, United States, Japan	DDP	Duty and import charges are calculated during checkout and are contained in the total shown; the carrier does not re-bill you
Special territories	Territories inside one border and outside the other	Determined per destination	The two questions get different answers; the applicable treatment is resolved during checkout rather than assumed

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The word that means two things

Origin appears twice in customs law, and only one version saves money

Non-preferential origin answers where goods are deemed to come from for statistics, trade measures and marking. Preferential origin answers whether goods qualify for a reduced rate under an agreement between the Union and the destination country. The second is the one that changes the amount — and the one that requires evidence.

That difference decides what a catalogue can hand you. The origin data behind the calculation you see at checkout is not a preferential origin statement, and no wording on a page could turn it into one. If you need a supplier’s declaration, ask for the position you are buying rather than for the range.

Ask before the order, too. This is another document that is far harder to obtain once the goods have shipped.

A country name in a data field is not a statement on origin
Keep the commodity code in your own article record — your forwarder asks for it first
It rarely changes, and it makes a landed-cost comparison between suppliers meaningful

What the order settles, and what stays with you

shukchok is an open marketplace for industrial goods, and the order settles duty and import charges in the amount determined at checkout — that is the end of the customs bill. What stays with you is the receiving end: accept the consignment and cooperate in clearance. Demurrage, return transport and a second round of import charges arising from a refused delivery fall to the buyer under clause 8.6, and charges already paid are not refunded where the destination customs authority will not refund them.

The second thing that stays with you is your own import authorisation. You confirm that no import or export restriction stands in the way and that you are entitled to import (clause 8.7). Where export control, customs or sanctions provisions prevent it, an order is not executed.

The neighbouring questions

The other border, and what goes across this one

Two ways in

See the total before you commit, not after the doorbell

Across a customs border duty and import charges are calculated during checkout from the commodity code and the destination and are contained in the amount shown. And if you manufacture or trade yourself: listing here puts your range in front of buyers outside the EU through the same ordering process, without a listing fee.

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