Air Import Consolidation Service

Izone cargo is also specialized in air import consolidation services. We are able to receive your air import consolidated into Heathrow airport, move it to our bonded warehouse, break down your goods and custom clear them.

Using our bonded warehouse helps our customers to save storage charges and also provides them with a logistics solution to distribute their goods in the UK and Europe and deliver their customers’ goods through Izone cargo distribution channels easily and smoothly.

Additional Imports Services

• Distribution service in UK and Europe:
  We have daily distribution services within the UK and a 2 days service for delivery into any European destination. You will be able to track and trace your parcels online
• NCTS processing for EU consignments
• Transshipment clearance services
• ETSF removal

Import Tariffs, Costs & Charges

Please see below points in order to get a general idea of how you can work out an estimate of what Import Customs Duty & VAT you will pay on imports into the United Kingdom.(Applies to importing goods from EU, China, India, Middle East, US or anywhere else in the world)

1. Convert the value of your goods into UK Pounds Sterling using the official UK HM Revenue & Customs exchange rate. These can be found on the UK HM Revenue & Excise website.
2. Calculate the total value of your goods for UK HM Revenue & Customs purposes.
   This simply means that dependent on the shipping terms of your consignment you may have to add the shipping costs to the purchase price of your goods to give you the “total value” to declare. Whether you are importing by sea freight into the UK ports of Southampton, Felixstowe, Tilbury or air freighting into London Heathrow Airport or Manchester UK you will still need to include the shipping costs.
3. Now you need to calculate the basic estimated Import Duty.
   To do this you take the value of the imported goods plus the shipping costs in UK Pounds Sterling and then establish what “ UK Customs Tariff Heading” your goods are defined as. This is a 10 Digit number which our London Heathrow Airport or Manchester International Airport teams will be happy to help you find or you can visit the European TARIC website, then simply multiply the “UK Sterling customs value” by the duty percentage given on the website.
4. Calculating the Import VAT costs.
   Add the UK HM Revenue and Customs Duty Taxes that you have just calculated (If any) to the total customs value of your goods (as above point 2) then multiply by 20%. This will give you the approximate UK HM Revenue and Customs Vat payable on your import consignment into Manchester International, London Heathrow, Tilbury or Felixstowe UK. Customs Vat and Duty taxes are payable immediately to UK HM Revenue and Customs when your goods are entered into the United Kingdom.
5. Air Imports to the UK
6. We are pleased to advise you that Izone cargo processes air imports clearance 7 days a week.
7. You do not need to be worried about storage charges at the airport which applies to any goods that is not cleared within 24 hours of the goods arrival.
8. Our experienced staff custom clear your goods on the same day of the arrival of your shipment or latest by the following day depending on what time your goods arrive at the airport. After your goods are custom cleared we can deliver the goods to you on the following day.
9. If you would like to appoint Izone Cargo to do the custom clearance for you please email copy of your air way bill to:  info@izonecargo.co.uk

Low Value Goods

Goods imported by Airfreight into London Heathrow, Gatwick Airport and Manchester International Airport can be customs cleared into the United Kingdom without the need to pay Vat & Duty Taxes if the value does not exceed £38 Sterling.

Intrastat

If your purchases from EU countries exceed an annual threshold you must also complete an Intrastat arrivals (EU imports) declaration. Imports from countries outside the EU do not count towards the Intrastat threshold and do not need to be included. Intrastat thresholds are reviewed annually. The thresholds for arrivals is £1.5 million. See the guide on Intrastat – reporting the value and volume of intra-EU trade.

Questions on importing goods ?

• Either submit the Shipping Quote form on this page.
• Or email us directly :  info@izonecargo.co.uk