Ok guys, just came from the customs now...

[precious007]

after one long hour of debates (LMAO) I'm finally out of the "FOG" with all the E.U legislation and this applies to any country in the EU and anyone ordering tobacco either online (no matter from where US or EU) OR bringing back tobacco in your EU country for personal consumption.

the custom officer has presented me all the actual legislation (and didn't forget to mention that he is not supposed to do that lol, but HE IS SUPPOSED to confiscate all my tobacco which he didn't)


*** drum roll please ***

[Frosted]

I'm not looking forward to this.

Sorry - did you say he confiscated your tobacco?

(I'm refreshing this page like a good 'un.)

[precious007]

Hey Frosted this is a pretty sad news actually but I have read the Official Papers that came into the customs... all highlighted and shit.....

The E.U law clearly states: (and that applies to any country in the E.U be it Romania, UK and the rest

1 - If you happen to order tobacco products online you are not allowed to bring in more than 25 cigarillos, 10 cigars, 10 packs of cigarettes or attention 50 grams of any other type of tobacco. (I've stayed there 1 hour in debates to clarify this) 50 grams of tobacco (it can be chew,snus, or dip)

2- if you happen to go overseas and come back with tobacco for personal use in the E.U you are not allowed to bring in more than 250 grams of tobacco of any kind (that includes dip,chew or snus)

The same legislation applies all over E.U

Moreover the legislation he had in hand which was updated as of March 2011 had nothing in it that stated SNUS was not to be sold in the EU. (but 50 grams)

Seemingly the legislation wasn't changed much since he showed me some of the previous legislation in the E.U and even started getting nervous at some point because I was trying to ask him to give me the tobacco ....... but he did (LUCKY ME) corrupt country somehow....

CRETE - I am enjoying a large pinch of Skoal XTRA in your honor ! :^)

[Frosted]

phuq!

So our phonecalls to customs were basically correct.

[precious007]

and has this always been the case?

YES.

he also told me that because I was nice to them and tipped them he always gave my packages without reading the whole legislation out........

but I actually read the legislation 12 pages long today. (I wouldn't have believed them if I didn't read it personally)

[Frosted]

Hang on - you said that it was updated in March 2011 after you edited your post. So what were the changes in March?

[precious007]

Hang on - you said that it was updated in March 2011 after you edited your post. So what were the changes in March?

yes, that's what it was stated at the top of the papers

Legislation regarding tobacco, perfumes and coffee for E.U countries as of March 2011

I'm ****ed though (he mentioned at the end that he might not be able to give me the packages any longer and told me that I should place 30 orders per month to get 30 cans of dip per month) .......

but I am sure he didn't really mean that lol

[muddyfunkstar]

None of that sounds right.

According to HMRC, the tobacco limits from EU to UK are as follows:

3200 cigarettes or
400 cigarillos or
200 cigars or
3 kg of smoking tobacco

From outside the EU to UK, it's:

200 cigarettes, or 100 cigarillos, or 50 cigars, or 250g of tobacco

[Frosted]

So that would mean you could order up to 5 tins of mini portions and just two cans of Standard snus.

[precious007]

None of that sounds right.

According to HMRC, the tobacco limits from EU to UK are as follows:

3200 cigarettes or
400 cigarillos or
200 cigars or
3 kg of smoking tobacco

From outside the EU to UK, it's:

200 cigarettes, or 100 cigarillos, or 50 cigars, or 250g of tobacco

what is the number

of HMRC

UK is the EU and the same laws apply or their ass is kicked out of the EU lol

So that would mean you could order up to 5 tins of mini portions and just two cans of Standard snus.

yes

at most 2 cans of portion snus

[Frosted]

We're not technically IN the EU. We are but we aren't.

[precious007]

We're not technically IN the EU. We are but we aren't.

UK is in the EU

and the same law applies everywhere across the E.U

does anyone know the number to call UK customs?

[Frosted]

There's no point in calling customs - they'll just tell you it's illegal again. Numbnuts the lot of them.

I know - I used to work for them. Customs law is massive and nobody knows what the hell is going on. I left because of the incompetence.

[muddyfunkstar]

Precious, with all due respect, you're just confusing the issue here.

[precious007]

Precious, with all due respect, you're just confusing the issue here.

muddyfunkstar with all my respect you don't know what you're talking about

What you've written above applies to Abolition of duty-free goods within the EU

that is a lot different, snus and tobacco products bought inside Sweden or the US are not duty free.

+ the quote you've written above hasn't been updated since Written on: 20th July 2007

Duty free products are only to be bough between borders of a country - Hence there are no duty shops within the country except in border areas.