The customs It is a public office of the state, located mainly at borders, ports and airports, where all types of exported and imported goods are registered to collect the debt rights according to their corresponding tariffs. This means that those people who seek to transport a product from one country to another will possibly find it necessary to pay a considerable monetary sum to be able to transport said product, which may vary depending on its respective cost.
To take into account the number and value of these types of items, Statistical shows in its graph the value of exports of goods by land transport in Mexico during 2020 by main customs, that Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, registered an amount of 81,688.72 million dollars; Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, an amount of 57,734.94; Tijuana, Baja California, a total of 33,205.74 million dollars; Colombia, Nuevo León, 26,015.74 million dollars, among others.
These numbers refer information merely as far as “land customs” is concerned, so it would still be necessary to count all the income behind, due to the other types of transport, as well as that of the airline industry.
There are several reasons why exported and imported products must be registered by customs, which may complicate their shopping experience or even business, but sometimes people do not have the proper knowledge about why their products are retained, unduly causing a problem. of image to the respective entities.
A content creator on TikTok using the name “tonyeladuanero”, mentions in a video some occasions in which customs has seen the need to retain some productsparticularly those of luxuryin addition to mentioning some of the reasons why these may or may not be withheld, depending on the regulations of each country.
Among them, he comments on a particular case with the influencer “Rayito” who contacted them, mentioning that, when making a shipment by DHL, customs withheld his luxury product since it exceeded one thousand dollars (although he supposedly already had the due taxes). “paid”; however, the creator reiterates that this in a certain way supposes a difficulty due to the regulations of each country and mentions that, in the end, they did not reach an agreement with the influencer. The same happened with another luxury product mentioned that it was worth more than a thousand dollars and customs retained it, but on this occasion, they supported him and fortunately the merchandise was sent… with the help of a high monetary value of taxes and storage.
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With this in mind, the content creator makes a recommendation when sending (or receiving) in luxury products, Do not believe applications or brands that mention that their respective cost is already included in the shipping payment for customssince despite confirmations that “there is no problem”, on some occasions said products could be retained by customs.
This would suppose a considerable weakness for some brands (mainly those of ecommerce that are maintained from import and export), since in addition to the price indicated in the application, on some occasions those consumers of Luxury brands could be affected by the retention of their respective products in customshaving to pay more than indicated and affecting their shopping experience with this type of high-cost items.
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