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Originally Posted by BSF James  I
I feel very sorry for customers like the original poster here, who are not made aware of the legality and lose their money, and I do believe the American retailers should be culpable for offering to ship them to Europe in the first place, but I actually wish Customs would crack down harder on importation laws because its unfair to UK sellers that the likes of bodybuilding.com can get away with selling to European customers without having to pay the taxes we have to pay, and thereby be able to undercut their UK counterparts. They should have to play by the same rules, and pay the same taxes, as the rest of us. |
Unfortunately Customs can do nothing about companies outside the EU, just try to stop the goods getting in - ever more difficult when the Government has decimated Customs, and in fact just hived most of it off to the Home Office (and we all know how good THEY are....
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The laws are EU laws and individual countries can't do a lot about them. It's the same the other way though - I can post anything I like to the US or Australia, but there's no guarantee it will get there.