Here I give you a detailed description of my personal experience, I will buy all the furniture abroad, during which I have a lot of personal experience, here to share with you, I hope it will be helpful to everyone, especially the new immigrants like me.
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I shipped from Guangdong in April this year, and all the goods were bought from Shunde's Lok. There are a lot of household items there. Of course, the price of quality is also uneven. I bought them in the Louvre Furniture City of Lok Tong, all of which have 42 cubic meters. At that time, I looked for a number of logistics companies to compare prices, now I will share my experience with you, I have found at least 7, 8 offers for me, it is said that Guangdong is doing private goods international moving professional companies, finally I chose two, Their prices are the best, and they feel the most experienced, but they give me different solutions, here I use A company, B company to make a distinction.
Company A's plan (they are the biggest in Shanghai): they suggest that I walk twice, the first time I walk a 20-foot cabinet, as if it can only be filled with 29 cubic meters, and the remaining 13 cubes advise me to go to the box. At that time, the shipping cost of walking a 20-foot cabinet was 650 USD. it was relatively cheap, and the sea freight of 13 cubic boxes was only 80 USD. I asked them why, 13 cubes were so cheap, it was better than my 42 cubes to go to the container, and they said a bunch of reasons. In the end, it is the most cost-effective way to separate. In fact, I only learned afterwards that there is a very large hidden cost here. When these 13 cubic boxes arrive in Australia, they have to pay a large amount of wharf and unpacking fees to the local wharf. Later, I learned from Australia's customs clearance logistics company that if these 13 cubes go alone to put together cabinets, the cost of wharf unpacking in Australia will be as high as 1800AUD. So close, there seems to be no pie falling for no reason in the world, and there is a great deal of risk behind every abnormal cost.
Company B (a friend also has a Guangdong company once): they suggest that I walk alone in a 40-foot cabinet and double clear to the door of 29000 RMB, the advantage is that the entire cabinet is my own, do not worry about mixing with other people's goods, and the advantages are that the whole cabinet is mine, and there is no need to worry about mixing with other people's goods. And the port of destination is fully covered! (it was not until later that I realized how important it was that the Hong Kong-of-destination fee was really too expensive!) The disadvantage is that a 40-foot cabinet has 60 cubic meters of space, that is, my cargo is not slow one cabinet and 18 cubic meters are empty, I said this is too wasteful, there is no other way that. So Company B gave me another plan.
B Company's proposal two: they say this way, because they have private belongings in Australia almost every week, and it happens that a customer's goods have just arrived in Melbourne, and 22 cubic meters of goods were supposed to take a 20-foot container. Can coordinate with this customer, and my 42 cubic meters together to build a 40-foot-high cabinet, double clear to the door 31000 yuan, a 40-foot-high cabinet can hold 68 cubic meters of goods, and the cost can be divided between two people, the cost can be reduced by 30% to 50%, I said it was very good. A few hours later, the logistics company called me back and said that the other side approved the plan, so my cabinet got on board on April 7, and on April 10th it left for Australia.
(so far all the expenses are 31,000 RMB, I think it is expensive, but later I learned to earn, here is a skill, there is a very large cost saved, that is, the cost of making a package, If you go to a professional company or logistics company to do it yourself, you need at least one cubic 300RMB, and the 42 cubes will cost 12600 yuan. The domestic logistics company is very professional, and they coordinate packaging requirements with the furniture factory in Australia. He saved me a lot of money by saving me a lot of money.
Looking forward to the stars and the moon, the boat floated at sea for 15 days and finally arrived in Melbourne on April 25.
I flew to Australia on the 18th, and the logistics company called me on April 20. Asked me to take some passport data to clear the customs, in fact, I have a very strong hands-on ability in the domestic, originally wanted to try, later want to calculate, people are not familiar, spend money to open the road, what to do with a flash. In fact, it was later confirmed that my decision was correct.
The customs declaration company asked me what the actual value of new goods was, and I said that it was duty-free for new immigrants. The customs declaration company replied in this way, "duty-free should meet two conditions at the same time. 1. After I first entered Australia to live in Australia, It takes two years to ship my home. For example, I first entered Australia and started living on April 18, 2016, so the personal furniture will be shipped by April 18, 2018. The second condition is that these homes must be used for more than 12 months. I said that my home is all new, ah, I bought an insurance of three hundred thousand RMB in China, but the actual value of the goods is two hundred and fifty thousand RMB,. How many tariffs do you have to pay? the customs declaration company gave me a formula. Two hundred and fifty thousand RMB = 45,000 AUD, tariff is about 5% and 10%, which is 45,000 * 15% = 6750AUD. I say it's too expensive. The customs declaration company said that it can be coordinated with the Customs and Excise Department to reduce tariffs as far as possible, but it has to be handed over reasonably. I asked the customs declaration companies, ah, how much is it reasonable to pay, ah, if they say 500 to 1200 AUD, I say if they don't report new ones, can they all report old ones, so that they can not pay customs duties, they say they can do as I ask, but if the Customs finds out, it will be very troublesome. Not only have to pay a lot of tariffs, the most important is such a torment, the customs has to spend a lot of time to repeatedly verify the value of the goods, will generate a large amount of cargo storage costs, may be thousands of. I thought about it, and it looks like I'm going to spend some money to get rid of it. I said you'll pay me back.
I then asked the customs declaration company a few questions, all need me to provide what documents, how to cooperate with you, when can I get the goods? They said that they had all the other documents. Company B of Guangdong sent it to them a week ago, and they began to declare the goods on the 21st of preparation. Just let me wait for the goods at home. I can deliver the goods between May 1 and 6. Good. I can play in Melbourne for a few days.
I took part in a one-day trip to the island of a local travel agency and met a lot of friends, as well as new immigrants like me. There was a man named Lao Zhang here. I talked to him about my container, and as soon as he heard this, he came to the topic. "here's the thing: last year he walked a 40-foot cabinet from Shanghai to Melbourne, and the logistics company in Shanghai took him from 28000RMB in China (I said my price was about the same as yours in order not to stimulate him), and the logistics company in Shanghai was still owned by his friend. And said that after the goods to Australia, you yourself to customs clearance, save money. First, when he received the documents of the Chinese express delivery in Melbourne, the ship had been in Australia for three days. Then his Australian friend accompanied him to the customs office at the airport. First, he filled in the form, the customs helped him with the customs clearance documents, and the customs asked him to provide invoices for all the furniture. Old Zhang was so stupid that he had to go home and get ready for it. The next day he went to the customs and went on to do it. The duty was handed over to 1300AUD (he was said to have reduced the value of the goods a lot, otherwise more). Finally, the customs asked him where the goods were to be sent for inspection. Lao Zhang thought to himself that the domestic logistics company said that it could be dragged directly to the home. The customs gave Lao Zhang a list of companies that could be inspected. He called each family to ask for the price, and finally chose a company called patrik. Patrik quoted more than 900 AUD, after a week of repeated quarantines and customs travails, during which time he had traveled between Micham and wharf many times, and finally, when he could pick up the goods at patrik, he was dumbfounded by the time he was able to pick up the goods at patrik. All the money on the invoice added up to more than 3500, but there is still a pile of miscellaneous fees, no way, no one can handle the language, here and foreigners, do not give money, the goods can not be taken away. Finally, after a lot of bargaining, did not reduce a cent, honestly pay the money to move away, Lao Zhang finally calculated all the costs in Australia down to 6000 AUD down. " I listened to a cold sweat immediately phone to the local customs declaration company, briefly said the old Zhang thing, customs declaration company responsible leaflet said, rest assured, agreed that the cost is full package, there will be no changes, let me wait at home for delivery good. Very well, the last shipment was delivered on May 1st, and the moving company had a good service and attitude, and the people who unloaded the cargo were bald, as if they were called gary, and they finally took away all the garbage.
Let me conclude here that private goods logistics companies with Australian experience must be found in China. It is best for them to have a co-operative agent in Australia. They are preparing documents and packing can be checked in advance for customers. In Australia, as long as the companies who do things for us have experience, they should pay them the money, because they are professional, after all, we move just once, there is no need to save the hundreds of experiments on their own)
Thank you for spending so much time reading my article. Finally, I hope everything goes well in Australia.
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