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5 hours ago, Lacessit said:

The shelf life of most beers is around 3 months. This assumes the beer is handled correctly every step of the way to the consumer, and not left to sit on a dock somewhere in the sun. I think it's safe to assume Thai beer has a much less arduous path to beer drinkers than bottles or cans from the EU or USA. Not that America knows how to make beer to start with.

IMHO the OP would find it much simpler to buy the beer here. Rimping in Chiang Mai has at least 50 imported brands.

No offence but you must have been living under a rock to not notice the huge amount of excellent local craft beers coming out of the USA these days. Especially the East Coast IPA's are very sought after, Tree House, Other Half, Trillium to name a few...
Those are the types of beers I'd like to get my hands on as a beer enthusiast.

1 hour ago, ThaiWai said:

There's always a guy who thinks he's found a loophole because he's smarter than everyone else. 

There's always someone that needs to talk people down cause they have an ego problem.

I'm not looking for a loophole, i'm trying to find clarity on quantities of alcohol one can legally send over including paying tax as there are really good specialty beers available which are worth it for me to ship over only if I can ship at least a couple of liters to cover the shipping costs.

They would be labeled a gift as I have no intention to sell these, (craft beer is expensive enough in Thailand as it is)
 

2 minutes ago, jackdd said:

Are you sure about this? 1 liter is free, but i'm quite sure that you can take more than that with you. Of course you have to use the red customs channel, declare it and pay the tax for it.

I went to the border in Birma to get some whiskey bottles and when I asked the staff at customs there if I could bring more then 1 liter they said I needed a license. I couldn't just pay tax and bring more. Counts for beer/wine/whiskey anything alcohol.

4 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

I think you missed this part on page 4:

Duties and Taxes: As a general rule, the duties and taxes on alcoholic beverages can be very high. Duties and taxes in some countries can be over 100 percent even for gift or sample shipments. Many countries also assess special excise or luxury taxes to alcoholic beverages.

 

The price of the Wine + transport, insurance is taxed by 60% + 7% VAT.

Good luck. 

This is for wine which is higher as beer, it goes by alcohol % nowadays if im correct.
Beer should be a bit lower, but i'm still unsure of how many liters you are allowed to bring it. If wine is up to 10 liters what would beer be.

5 hours ago, jackdd said:

I understand what you want to do, you want to cheat customs by having the sender declare it as gift. I think you are misunderstanding how customs work

A bottle of wine has a value, let's say 500THB, if the shop declared it with a value of 0USD the customs will just look it up or estimate the value.

According to what i found on Google the import tax for wine from USA is about 400%, so customs will ask you to pay 2000THB tax per bottle when you go to pick it up.

Just trying to get some nice beer in as a gift, I don't care paying tax over it but what I do care about is that it will be confiscated as I don't have a license or whatever excuse they may bring up as like I stated before if you bring more then 1 liter by airport they will take it. No option to pay tax over it.

Ok I think you are mistunderstanding what I would like to do.  In this case I would order from a shop across the pond (licensee) and let them send it as a gift to me (consumer)

Page 11. Read the contents

Thailand 1. FedEx® International Air Waybill. 2. Commercial Invoice. 3. Consignee requires an Import License above 10 liters. 1. FedEx® International Air Waybill. 2. Commercial Invoice. 3. Make a notation on the Commercial Invoice that the wine is for “personal use, not for resale”. 1. Personal purchase – 10 liters.

Hey everyone, I was recently looking into shipping some beer to thailand as a gift but can't really wrap my head around the laws.
Legally at the airport you are allowed to bring in 1 liter for free but as I was surfing the web I found the following document from Fedex stating it's possible to ship up to 10 liters of Wine as a gift! (http://www.fedex.com/international/pdf/International_Wine_Shipping_Guide_v_3_2.pdf)

So i'm wondering if the same can be applied to Beer.
Does anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks alot!

Hello all, thanks for the anwswers that was exactly what i was wondering. I thought the visa would give you 3 months regardless of how many planned days. Extending will horrible i might imagine. I guess we are better of stating the full period and hope for the best.

Finances are not a problem but i can imagine them having doubts about a person who can leave her work for longer then 2 weeks up to 3 months.

Nobody here who can comment?

Hello everybody.

My gf would like to visit Europe and apply for a tourist visa. I was thinking that if you apply for around 2 weeks the financial requirements will be a bit easyer (34eu a day) and also it would look more realistic considering the fact we actually are planning to stay around 2+ months.

Is there anybody out here who could give some advice if this route is even possible.

When you ask for 2 weeks will the visa be valid only 2 weeks?

Can we book a return ticket for that period and after obtaining the visa change it for a longer period?

Will the customs look awkward on the way back if we go back later then the first mentioned dates on application?

Thanks alot!