Invoice for Northern Ireland?

[tackleberry]

A wammer listed in Ireland has just bought something from me and arranged pickup with ups.

Sent me the dockets to print out for parcel which said NI on them.

UPS just took them off me and said they may be sent back to me as they have no invoice with them. I hardly ever use couriers, so I had no idea I leave that ball in the buyers court. Anyone know if this is correct?

 

[savvypaul]

NI remains in the European Single Market. GB does not.

Goods sent from GB to NI require commercial invoices; a description of the item(s), country of manufacture, commodity code, value. That sort of thing.

Customs might reject it, or they may insist that the courier supplies more information, or it might slip through unnoticed. Good luck.

 

[Cable Monkey]

You aren’t exporting them. If he has arranged the courier, he is importing them and he should do the paperwork. The driver wasn’t wrong, but I guess he is assuming you raised the order.

 

[simon g]

You aren’t exporting them. If he has arranged the courier, he is importing them and he should do the paperwork. The driver wasn’t wrong, but I guess he is assuming you raised the order.

This.


Yet another Brexit bonus I'm afraid. Moving stuff in to and out of England, Scotland and Wales to the EU is now a right PITA. I get involved in this at work; it can get very messy and is best left to the professionals.

 

[tackleberry]

Well, buyer has put as electronics and seems to know what he’s doing

 

[marko]

I had the same issue last week when the driver refused to pick up. He said if he took the goods, they would only be returned to me the next day without the required invoice. In my case, Buchardt Audio had forgotten to provide me with the required invoice. Once they did, it was ‘plain sailing’.
The recipient of the, consignment needs to send you an invoice including full description of the goods (and the price paid for them) and the cost of carriage to NI. Stick that along with the docket on the parcel, which hopefully should do the job! Good luck.

 

[cupples]

I just use parcel force to and fro NI and never have any bother...

 

[audio_PHIL_e]

electronics

I once worked for a company that supplied laser equipment to a customer in a country where the USA had far too much say in what we could (or could not) export or what they could (or could not) import. I used to describe the contents as "electronics" without mentioning "laser" as that would have been a red rag to the customs guys.