Anyone buy/import parts from Europe (EU)?

Were you required to provide a V.A.T. # and a EORI # to the seller/shipping company?
I suspect that this is information that the shipper, not the recipient, has to provide but I need confirmation. Thanks.

 

All the time.

It's on the shipper.

 

Thanks!
Tell the other dude in your shop.

 

Ha! Just got the whole story. We've been working in different corners of the shop all week.

 

Why would someone in 'Merica need to provide a smelly Euro trash a VAT #? Why would we even pay VAT? Since parts coming here are leaving the land of perpetual strikes and mimes there shouldnt be any VAT applied.

When I buy stuff in Japan, I dont have to pay sales tax/VAT - even when i am physically there buying it. I just have to show my passport and then when I leave they scan it and bada bing...no tax.

 

But do you pay tax on it when you bring it into the US?

 

I forgot.

 

I buy bike parts out of Germany. Don't pay VAT or other taxes.

 

I buy a lot of stuff from Italy. No VAT, no import taxes.

 

The person shipping out the stuff got mixed up between the shipper's and the recipient information required.