Hi, I plan to open a boutique and run my business. I wanted to import wholesale clothes & shoes from China (mayb Korea, Taiwan and HK as well). But i'm not sure if my order will be barred by the custom, or being taxed & etc. Btw, I'm from duty free zone.

Besides, where can i get trustable supplier / wholesaler? I visited few wholesale websites from China but i read bad reviews bout them like shipping ripped off, bad quality and so on. Any korea websites in english? I cant read korean. Recommend me some sites with cheap price, at least OK in quality, good shipping service & good customer service pls.

Appreciate ur help~ TQ very much..

This post has been edited by babylis: Nov 27 2009, 12:32 AM

for baju, i think the current tax rate is 30%.
i kena for jerseys before. i not sure whether yours is applicable or not.

How much u bought for total and how much u got taxed?

TQ for telling =)

sure no problem. the idea is to share knowledge

i bought jerseys from a UK website. total was rm1200+
tax came out to 30$. roughly rm400.

baju i believe is classified as textile or something like that.
hence the high tax rate.
it is 20%levy + 10%sales tax.

That's really a big amount..

Thanks 4 sharing, nimrod2!!

you will be tax on amout more than RM500 above (thats + shipping) via AIR and RM250 above (+Shipping) via Sea/Surface.
Tax rate on different item differ.. there is a few items which is non tax.. but Im not sure what

This post has been edited by Sham903n: Aug 8 2009, 11:08 PM

I think its depend on luck... i bought some items from US, the items plus shiping is USD 320, and the parcel is around 11" x 13" x 3" (height), i received the parcel from postlaju yesterday....no tax.... but this is my second time order the same items, first time the item get hold by custom and i paid around rm 200 to the officer... i dont know the rm 200 is for tax or masuk their pocket??? same package, same weight... but first time get hold, second time dont have???

i guess u were just lucky the 2nd time. they must have missed it.

what courrier did u use btw?

Maybe they missed it but there is a chop "Dilepas oleh kastam" on the parcel there... and there is a invoice outside the parcel clearly stated that the goods worth USD 320...

Using USPS Express Mail...

hmm then maybe your items are not taxable.
what did u ship in?

Reptile food and supplemet. . .

If I m not wrong... supplements has 5% sales tax..

as for reptile food... not sure if can fall into the same category of dog/cat food... if yes then there is no tax for this item

first i would like to give you some advice.

one of my friend actually run a boutique business too, he went to china and look at the samples itself, good quality and nice product, but when he made the payment and he received very bad quality product, some of the product he pay didnt even arrive, but korean japan and taiwan quite ok.

second,

the product you import definately need to pay tax, if you know someone inside you can get discount for your product, yes, some officer from tax custom can give u discount, if you bought in large quantity, the tax will be a huge amount for you.

I know clothes definitely have 20% levy tax + 10% sales tax. I have bought few times, everytime around 50 clothes shipped by EMS.

The worst experience i encounter before is, the poslaju officer actually did not bother whatever value declared on the parcel. They told me they evaluate the market selling price of the clothes and tax me based on market selling price! My wholesale price for the clothes is only Rm10-RM 15, the poslaju office told me these kind of clothes selling in the market for Rm25-Rm30, so tax me based on the Rm25-Rm30 value per piece! Blood Sucker!

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Added on August 11, 2009, 2:49 pmHey Melt, animal food tax free is it? How about other pets' supply like clothes, accessories, beds etc...?

This post has been edited by Kenix L: Aug 11 2009, 02:49 PM

Animal cloths fall into sales 10% tax.

As for accessories,beds etc... i m not really sure.

The custom do make changes if they think the price you are declaring is unreasonable... but I have never heard that poslaju have the rights to change the value of your clothes though....

i think that happens when you appoint poslaju to be your courrier company?

i not sure anyone have such experience before.

i used to sell bags.

bags tax at 10% and due to my shipment total value below 500rm therefore the tax waived.

reason being goods under rm500 will not be taxed. this reason had stated in my duty declaration form. anyone can clarify this?