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Moved to Europe, need help in being active in the community again

rsjawale24
rsjawale24 over 1 year ago

HI!

It's been a long time since I was last active in the community.  I was busy moving to a beautiful country in Europe for my new job.

I started working as an Antenna Engineer (which is also my masters specialization) at Ericsson in Tallinn, Estonia.

Now that I'm finally in Estonia, I'm still trying to figure our how to participate in e14 design challenges and be more active in the community. Unfortunately, I left all my tools and instruments back at my home in India

as it was not feasible to move them here. I'm looking to buy some basic tools and instruments here like multimeter, screwdriver kit, power supply, breadboard, etc here.

If I start to participate in challenges here, and the kit is shipped to me, I'm not sure about the customs and taxation rules in Estonia or EU/ Schengen region. Do I have to pay the customs taxes? Is there any declaration to be filed for international shipments? Back in India we had to provide our ID documents and address proof to UPS for customs clearance.

It would be great if any members here from the EU or Estonia could help me with the customs rules here Slight smile

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 1 year ago in reply to rsjawale24 +4
    If you travel to Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Netherlands or Germany, shout. (if you don't, shout too. I'll try to convince you)
  • misaz
    misaz over 1 year ago +3
    Also remember to update your address in Element14 profile. rscasny stated few months ago, that they will not send anything to different address than address in the user profile.
  • cstanton
    cstanton over 1 year ago +2
    rsjawale24 said: It's been a long time since I was last active in the community. I was busy moving to a beautiful country in Europe for my new job. Hey, welcome back I hope it's going well for you! …
  • misaz
    misaz over 1 year ago

    Hi!

    Congrats for taking new job. Enjoy Europe.

    Since Element14 sends packages using UPS using incoterm DDP, everything is quite a simple and free for you. It is slighly country dependent because customs offices in every country work independently and while many laws are stadardized over Europe, there are still small national differencies. In Czechia it works in a way that they sometimes do not need nothing and sometime they require to fill simple form (in Czehc language), but they to not want full copy of ID card. But it also depends on carrier. With UPS it is fine, but for example DHL requires (at least in Czechia) much more paperwork when receiving foreign packages.

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  • misaz
    misaz over 1 year ago

    Also remember to update your address in Element14 profile. rscasny  stated few months ago, that they will not send anything to different address than address in the user profile.

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  • dang74
    dang74 over 1 year ago

    Best wishes in this new adventure.

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  • cstanton
    cstanton over 1 year ago
    rsjawale24 said:
    It's been a long time since I was last active in the community.  I was busy moving to a beautiful country in Europe for my new job.

    Hey, welcome back Slight smile I hope it's going well for you!

    rsjawale24 said:
    Back in India we had to provide our ID documents and address proof to UPS for customs clearance.

    We have always had a harder time shipping items to India, they always get held up for different reasons.

    misaz said:
    Since Element14 sends packages using UPS using incoterm DDP

    This's correct, we send items with delivery duty paid, so you shouldn't need to pay anything.

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  • javagoza
    javagoza over 1 year ago

    Welcome to Europe. Estonia is a great unknown to me. I worked for a few years in Stockholm in Sweden, the weather in Estonia must be very similar to that in Sweden, you will have to prepare for the cold and those short winter days. Congratulations on your new job.

    Regarding customs rules, as you have been told, they are very dependent on each country but don't worry, the element14 staff does everything possible so that it isn't a nightmare for you and you don't have to pay anything.

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  • rsjawale24
    rsjawale24 over 1 year ago in reply to misaz

    Thanks! I thought the entire EU has same regulations. I'll check the rules here. They have UPS here in Estonia so I guess it should be easy to get shipments cleared from customs.

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  • rsjawale24
    rsjawale24 over 1 year ago in reply to misaz

    Yes, I'll update it soon! Thanks!

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  • rsjawale24
    rsjawale24 over 1 year ago in reply to dang74

    Thanks! Smiley

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    rsjawale24 over 1 year ago in reply to cstanton

    Hey!

    Still so far it's going good!
    I guess for me it will be easier to receive the shipments now Slight smile

    Thanks !

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    rsjawale24 over 1 year ago in reply to javagoza

    Thanks! Yeah, it's a small country and many people even in the EU haven't been here. It's getting cold now and the winters are pretty harsh here but the locals seem to be unaffected by it, it's still summer for some Laughing
    I'll check the customs rules here. Thanks!

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