neil
23 July 2026 12:48
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Just linking to a mention of this that @Andrew_Gabriel made on another topic. But good for it to have its own thread here - thanks for starting it @Charles_Butcher .
I get a lot of spare parts from AliExpress. This is all likely to come to an end when the government removes the de minimis customs exclusion from import duty, and imposes the new UK customs clearance charge (as per the last budget). Then many of the things I currently repair will become uneconomic to repair. Also bare in mind many Amazon items come this way too, they will also vanish. This is something the repair organisations should be taking up. It’s not actually the import duty, or possibly the UK customs clearence charge, but it’s the charge the couriers make to collect those payments wh…