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You should read about anti-dumping duty on the pedelec forum. You are likely to be caught in the trap. The rate is 87% anti-dumping plus about 20% for countervailing value duty (anti-subsidy duty). 20% VAT is then added on top. Forget about importing it directly. I have to assemble all my bikes...

surface water is no problem, it's the salt content that eats the aluminium and steel inside. You can't see the corrosion from the outside. Only when the motor seizes, you open it up and spend a day removing the rust, all the alloy surface inside looks like Swiss cheese. That's after only about a...

I will look carefully at 34T/48T. Chinese New Year holiday starts next week, I can't do much until they come back in a month's time.

the G06 has good torque but derestricted, it'll go up to about 20mph.

if you are tempted to take it to the beach: be warned, the salty air and spray will corrode the inside of the G06 motor in no time. Salt eats through aluminium at the rate of knots.

the root of the mess is the depression in 2008. Housing and stock market boom followed by burst followed by cuts in public services followed by schools, police, hospitals, welfare being put back for a couple of decades. I blame Gordon Brown. He was an inept chancellor.

only the conservatives support brexit. Labour is predominently pro remain.

by the conservatives who were obviously motivated to give that reply. The ECJ was never asked before.

the conservatives are so divided that another conservative PM won't do better than TM. There is nothing wrong with TM's withdrawal treaty if she agrees with JC for a future customs union. The problem is with the ERG. They want Canada+, that means the future FTA will have to keep the backstop.

not many would want to take on the double edged sword that is brexit. TM knows already that her stint is a short one.

Theresa May must give her ministers free votes on all the Brexit options and relegate herself to being a “mediator” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-deal-latest-theresa-may-john-major-ministers-uk-cabinet-a8735921.html

UKIP polled 27.5% in 2014. I doubt that they would do as well as they did. 10%, 8 MEPs and not N. Farage (if A50 is delayed) would be my guess.

read the webpage more carefully, goods are shipped from the EU warehouse but not sold by an EU company. Tax (in this case EU import tariff) is paid but not VAT. They just exploit a loophole for intra EU trans shipments and count on EU couriers not to check the paperwork for intra EU parcels. As...

No, that's not the situation I am moaning about. The fault is with the EU in this situation. They should crack down on those operators, making sure VAT is paid when leaving the bonded warehouse. The main loophole in the SM rules is to allow Chinese businesses to sell to EU consumers online. The...

He needs another fixer, this time, it can't be A. Banks.

except in an unforeseen situation. who else would do better?

the ECJ judgement is not depending on the length of time between triggering and ending.

that's correct if you buy from a trader who is VAT registered and who chose to charge you VAT. If you have an EU VAT number, I can ship to you at better price than my Chinese competitors that I moan about. If you buy from some Chinese operator who does not charge you VAT, there is no VAT to...

I reckon the least cost solution will prevail because there is little mileage in negotiating our own deals compared to collective bargaining with the EU27.

no, that's not correct. We need an extension which has to be agreed by all 27 member states of the EU27 but we can withdrawl A50 unilaterally at any time. Imagine TM asks Juncker and Tusk to extend A50. TM concedes a new GE in April. GE in May. JC does not win enough seats so he forms a...