Thread: Import permit for reloading equipment ?

What you pay in US dollars plus shipping/insurance in US dollars. NZ value has no relevance except if you try to claim a real low/unrealistic purchase price. Used to work long time ago but they are generally on to all the tricks people try.

When using the What's My Duty calculator I just select Golf Clubs for which there is no duty.

A reloading press should attract no duty in part because there are no commercial manufacturers of reloading presses in NZ.

At any rate if you run the calculator at US$380 for the goods and say US$90 (could be light) for shipping the result is no duty (<NZ$1000), gst on the goods of NZ$87.69 and gst on the shipping of NZ$20.77, so all quite reasonable.
Before the changes on 1 Dec they would have slapped you a Biosecurity fee as well. Now kicks in at >$1k

Edit: Just looking at it again and I think above is wrong. Because the total comes to less than NZ$1000 duty/gst is waived. Although I think if the company you purchase off sells more the $60k (maybe$65?) per year into NZ that company is required by NZ to be gst registered and to collect the gst on behalf of NZ govt. This is what is happening now with Ebay for example.

All the changes came about on 1 Dec 19.

Best to keep order under NZ$1k. And purchase off a small outfit although many of them will not export. Brownells surprisingly don't seem to be charging gst all purchases which is a surprise as I thought they would sell more the 65k into NZ.