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Hey all,
We run a UK electronics repair company and often have to procure spare parts like small electronic components from the USA. We usually buy from large global distributors such as Mouser, Digikey, Online Components etc. The arrive in the UK by whichever carrier the supplier has used to ship - typically UPS.
Over the last few months we have been getting several requests a week from UPS asking what the import clearance instructions are. Specifically the HS code. Often we find that the HS code from the supplier is invalid when we look it up.
The problem is that these parts are ordered by engineers which are often technical in nature and poor old admin in Goods inwards have no clue so are struggling to even look up the correct code.
This begs the question... who is responsible for specifying the correct HS code, the distributor / exporter or us as the recipient? it seems disingenuous for it to be us as we didn't manufacture the parts!
We run a UK electronics repair company and often have to procure spare parts like small electronic components from the USA. We usually buy from large global distributors such as Mouser, Digikey, Online Components etc. The arrive in the UK by whichever carrier the supplier has used to ship - typically UPS.
Over the last few months we have been getting several requests a week from UPS asking what the import clearance instructions are. Specifically the HS code. Often we find that the HS code from the supplier is invalid when we look it up.
The problem is that these parts are ordered by engineers which are often technical in nature and poor old admin in Goods inwards have no clue so are struggling to even look up the correct code.
This begs the question... who is responsible for specifying the correct HS code, the distributor / exporter or us as the recipient? it seems disingenuous for it to be us as we didn't manufacture the parts!
