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liubov2011 wrote:

as i know no tax 7000 usd if more, it seem yes, tax

Yes true but this figure only relates to certain visa types like SSRV and some others.
Sending a shipping container full of household goods/things on a tourist visa attracts full duties and taxes. Say on an SRRV. 7K US is exempt. While not sure of a married couple on a 13A or Balakbayan visa one would assume it would be the easiest way to bring your belongings in tax exempt.

From our experience our only option was as said, returning Filipino living abroad and avail the tax and duty exemptions: 5 years out of country as a non OFW gives a PHP 250K exemption or US 5K. OFW's have some advantages but from memory not as lucrative as the path we had to go down.
For us spending AU 8K for shipping meant fill it to justify the cost and pay the duties and taxes once in port. There were none and for us the worry was for nothing.
The reason our shipping costs were so high was that we had the container delivered and we packed it ourselves so additional trucking 3 weeks later. I have had years of experience packing and moving containers in the film industry interstate and internationally and know how to pack them, spacial awareness etc. Reflecting our choice of things to send? Yes, some things we didn't really need and would have been better off sending more things that are not available in PH. that we could have used.
We probably sent about AU 40/45K worth of goods,,,,,, furniture, art works, tools and equipment, clothes/decent linen and towels, personal items etc etc. We even sent a new rotary clothes line as I had never seen one for sale in PH. lots of things like that.

I and only my opinion would suggest to the OP, anyone contemplating shipping goods to research and do it well. Why spend US 5K to ship 5 or 7K in goods? Just an observation that requires serious research and consideration.

Cheers, Steve.

MovinToCebu wrote:

Other than the actual shipping cost of sending a container to the Philippines, can anyone clarify would the other fees and charges will be once the container reaches the Port of Cebu?聽 Ie: Customs charges, unloading & handling the container, etc...

We are looking to bring a couple major items such as our bedroom set, a safe, some tools, a dining room table and maybe a couple flat screen TV鈥檚.

When I checked (Sweden to Phils) the transport costs are huge so very few things are worth the costs to get it there, so I'm selling/give away almost everything, 2 lorry loads, 18 pickup loads and 3 hatchback loads so far. Only 3 pickuo loads left because I use some still which I will leave.聽 Plan to keep only a few things which can be free cargo when flying (and perhaps send a few boxes).聽 I have "packed" only 3 moving size boxes, sorted in 4 prioritylevels if ever and when to bring, 5 boxes so far (2 in the lowest priority level).聽 Plus there will be some, which I use still.聽 聽(Mainly some tools. Memory things which can't be bought. Laptops.聽 Trousers long enough聽 聽聽 聽Perhaps some books and a lightweight canoe which can be folded much enough to get in a聽 box or to carry at flight聽 聽 聽(=20 kg).聽 聽

I suppouse someone have told if you get SRRV you can get in聽 some without custom costs. (7000 usd worth I believe.)

Otherwice are custom costs VAT聽 (12 % if I remember correct) plus custom fees.聽 Some what they count as "luxury items" have huge custom fees, that's a part of reason some things cost very much to buy in Phils.聽 There can be storage fees too, which can be huge before geting things through custom, which can be har, there are "agents" who offer to hanle such things, which are suppoused to be easy... (I have been working with import/export between other countries.)聽 I haven't tested but I know of some, who have got very frustrated by costs just in the custom have become higher than the real value of the things!!!聽 Made it on purpouse to make owners leave things for free to the custom by not paying the fees...聽 聽 I don't know if it has changed since Duterte fired that very corrupt custom boss.

Balikbayan boxes seem to have less problems to get through normaly if the documents are in order, but expect it can become custom fees at them too.聽 Earlier has the custom let them through easier than they are suppoused to, but announced聽 some before covid they will be more strict.

Soonretired wrote:

like coach said, its not really worth it to bring things here, i just sent 10 large boxes and had no fees and still wish i brought less.
personal sentimental things,TOOLS, books ,clothes,
and keep your books in large ziplock bags or they will get ruined.
i knew a guy who sent his whole house,bedroom sets, furniture etc and someone decided they were luxury items and it cost more to get in than he paid for new in the states!
cars generally cost 1.5 times the value to get in the country!

Yes cars have very high custom fees, being counted as "luxury".聽
And it happens (often?) the custom count at prices for NEW things as e g computers even at OLD!!!

Soonretired wrote:

BB boxes, way to go. label them all "kitchen stuff" in black marker. no matter whats inside

Not recomended if the custom check things as they announced some before covid they will do.聽 It can be punnishment fees for wrong declaration.聽

If doing it anyway, I recomend sending separate at other type or carry at flight menory items you can't buy new if the demanded fees for the shipment become so high so you chose to/can't pay it.聽 As it happened to a guy, who immigrated to Cebu (not SRRV). He couldn't pay so he lost alkl including his memory things by the custom demanded high fees.聽

If question the fees,聽 making it take extra time in the custom, they add high STORAGE fees too...

But if you retire in Phils - after they allow SRRV again - you can solve it by the free from聽 custom fees ONE time for SRRV.聽
LOCK UP so the cargo arrive within the time frame for free custom. 聽 If they haven't change, I COULDN'T send custom free by ship just before I take the flight to Phils, because they wouln't arrive within the time frame!

Soonretired wrote:

i doubt they would fine you even if they looked in each BB box, which mine were never touched and wrapped exactly as i had them when they arrived here.
its not uncommon for people moving to toss things in boxes and label them bedroom,kitchen etc. that does not imply that each and every item is specifically for that room in your house.
i labeled them for my own use in marker not for anyone official, That official declaration info is in the paperwork of your BB box you fill out declaring the contents and has a matching sticker on each box,...not written on the box in markers..
I wrote "kitchen" on them to discourage any would be thieves or corrupt people along the way from picking out a "prize" box. such as one labeled "valuable laptops and electronics"
and have it either disappear or get set aside and held ransom for "extra fees"聽 to be pocketed by corrupt individuals.
nobody wants to steal kitchen crap.

there is no way i could even accurately list the exact contents really ,they were full of such varied misc.stuff i couldn't even remember myself by the time it was taped up!
And if i set my heavy toolbox inside a cardboard box it would easily fall out the bottom if you picked it up,so i scattered tools throughout the boxes of clothes and sheets and such, filling in any leftover space with trinkets and odds and ends.
i seriously doubt they would open each and every BB box and scatter that mess out to compare the contents with the description in the paperwork and repack all the contents in fresh boxes and use a roll of duck tape and packaging tape (at their expense)聽 to repack it all, it would take hours per box.
and even if they did they would find nothing illegal.
but to each his own.
do as you see fit.

besides, who's to say what i keep in my kitchen !!!
LOL

Soonretired wrote:

no i have not tried to send anything here with forex in 10 years

I have bad memory for time, but the announcement they will check balikbayan boxes more strict was much later, 1-3 years ago or so.