Shipping A Laptop From China

[JCCR6]

Can anyone tell me what the Vat/Customs fee's would be if I were to ship a new laptop from china? Approximate value of 35-40K baht.

I know I can buy one here, but that isn't really what I'm looking to do. I can't find any references on the customs website to laptops.

Thanks in advance.

[tingtong]

if you farang nothing to worry about thai custom/vat, nobody ever bother to see what electronic i have. if you a thai it might be a different story. anyway, if you buy anything have an adapter as the plug differs from the thai.

[sonicdragon]

if you farang nothing to worry about thai custom/vat, nobody ever bother to see what electronic i have. if you a thai it might be a different story. anyway, if you buy anything have an adapter as the plug differs from the thai.

The OP is asking about importing a laptop by shipping it, not by carrying through customs himself.

I believe the customs import duty will be 20% of the CIF invoiced price. VAT at 7% will then be payable on the total including duty. Depending on how you send it you might also get charged a customs brokerage fee. Beware of having it shipped with a false value - if Customs are suspicious and you can't proove you paid (or have been invoiced) the declared value, they may impose their own arbitrary value and possibly even confiscate your laptop.

[Martin_F]

Also consider operating problems and Chinese specifics (non thai keyboard maybe chinese keyboard).

[LaoPo]

Can anyone tell me what the Vat/Customs fee's would be if I were to ship a new laptop from china? Approximate value of 35-40K baht.

I know I can buy one here, but that isn't really what I'm looking to do. I can't find any references on the customs website to laptops.

Thanks in advance.

1. Can you explain why you want to buy+import a laptop from China?

2. Last year, my wife bought an Acer-laptop in China (and installed all kinds of Chinese software) and took it (temporarily) to Thailand; no problem.

3. We found out that the same Acer was considerably cheaper in Thailand than in China....!

LaoPo

[JCCR6]

Can anyone tell me what the Vat/Customs fee's would be if I were to ship a new laptop from china? Approximate value of 35-40K baht.

I know I can buy one here, but that isn't really what I'm looking to do. I can't find any references on the customs website to laptops.

Thanks in advance.

1. Can you explain why you want to buy+import a laptop from China?

2. Last year, my wife bought an Acer-laptop in China (and installed all kinds of Chinese software) and took it (temporarily) to Thailand; no problem.

3. We found out that the same Acer was considerably cheaper in Thailand than in China....!

LaoPo

1. Yes, the laptop I'm intending to buy is considerably cheaper than anything with a comparable spec in BKK.

2. Software is of no concern to me.

3. For me, this is not the case.

sonicdragon - Thanks for your help.

[Maestro]

...if I were to ship a new laptop from china?...

I see your are offering your IBM ThinkPad for sale. Does this mean that you went ahead with the import of a laptop from China? If yes, I wonder how it went, eg customs clearance, import duty, VAT.

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Maestro