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Hi - its the luck of the draw if they put your boxes into quarantine.....and yes your about right with 320-460 auz dollars for this. As I said all our boxes were opened and inspected, if you plan it will happen and it does not, then hey have a nice meal or a treat with the money you have saved. If quarantine happens then hey like us you have to accept it and get on with life ( just with a bitter after taste)

Haha 460AUD will be more than a happy meal...:-)...we can maybe buy a few items for our house like small piece of furniture, some electronics etc. I am now evaluating the option of courier mode instead of air freight mode where I dont have to worry abt inspection and quarantine. Its door to door and the agency has quoted 550-600 AUD inclusive of packing, pick-up, custom clearance and delivery.

Malicious damage....whatever that would mean to complicate things!!! It must be terrible to focus energies on fighting for claims across continents when the real focus should be settling and enjoying the new country.

The agency I am speaking to is charging me only from door to port. So I would have to pay extra for whatever charges I may have to incur at Sydney Airport and the door to port quoted price is 3.2AUD/kg for 100-250kgs bracket. So for 100kgs it works out to be 320AUD. I can opt for either transit insurance which is 1% of declared value or comprehensive insurance which is 3% of declared value. Going by what expenses you have incurred at Sydney airport I will have to account for additional $495 for quarantine and customs which then becomes really very expensive if I go for door to port option. But if I dont have any articles which may require inspection or quarantine then can I escape that cost is my query and still evaluating what option to op for.

Thanks Justin...so were there any charges you had to pay at Sydney Airport?

Hello everyone, I am arriving Sydney on 24th Dec. I am sending 100kgs of personal use items mainly clothes and accessories valued under $1000 through air cargo which will arrive after I reach sydney. I have opted for airport drop and not door drop due to the price benefit. The goods donot contain any item which is likely to be quarantined or treated or even suspected to be opened and checked which ofcourse is at the discretion of the customs officer. My query is what are the likely charges apart from local transportation that I will have to pay. The cargo company is not telling me anything clearly. Being under $1000 it is not likely to attract any duty charges I presume. I want to know if I will have to pay any customs clearance fee? or Airport or Airlines fee?

 

we shipped 88kg via air, and then 20ft container by sea......the air was heavily labelled fragile, but still ended up almost trampled to a pulp...and they we send via a company who has yellow and red lego one of the top 2.......upon arrival we got told to pay them $45 dollars per box admin fee to process through quarantine, and pay quarantine fee of $165.00.....we thought it was a miss, when compared to the quarantine web site ( AQUIS), and in the end dealt with clearance ourselves via email, and all in all it cost $105.00 to clear and inspect 5 boxes 88kg......all boxes inspected. Hence from that moment we said they are trying to over charge, we got third world service....and the complaint handling is still back and forth.

Gosh after reading your experience I am really left to wonder if I should simply go for door to door (DTD) service instead of door to port as it may work out cheaper since the cost to be paid at sydney airport alone is quite substantial. In my understanding costs for 1) 45 x 5=$225 for quarantine processing fee + 2)$ 165 quarantine fee +3) $105 customs clearance and inspection fee which totals to $495 is quite a bit as compared to a total moving cost for DTD which in my case have been quoted for $650. And to top it your items have come back to you in a damaged state. I dont know what I would have done to see my expensive items been cargoed like this. Did you have insurance to claim?

Also I am wondering if you had any food products or animal products or items that came in contact with ground and dust that attracted the quarantining? If I am sending mainly clothes then will I still have to pay all the above costs? I am on PR Visa so will the regulations be a bit relaxed? Thanks for your reply. Your daughters are really very cute.

Is your stuff still available? If yes how much are you quoting? We are in the process of finalising our lease and would be requiring all of the above.

Hello everyone, I am arriving Sydney on 24th Dec. I am sending 100kgs of personal use items mainly clothes and accessories valued under $1000 through air cargo which will arrive after I reach sydney. I have opted for airport drop and not door drop due to the price benefit. The goods donot contain any item which is likely to be quarantined or treated or even suspected to be opened and checked which ofcourse is at the discretion of the customs officer. My query is what are the likely charges apart from local transportation that I will have to pay. The cargo company is not telling me anything clearly. Being under $1000 it is not likely to attract any duty charges I presume. I want to know if I will have to pay any customs clearance fee? or Airport or Airlines fee?

An early reply will be really appreciated as its only 10days pending and I have to still finalise on the cargo agency depending on the feedback I get here.

Thanks in advance.