WEEE Producer Obligations: When the Importer Becomes the Producer
CE marking asks whether a product meets the applicable EU product requirements. WEEE asks a different question entirely: who is responsible for its end-of-life obligations. And the answer, more often than importers expect, is you. The word doing the damage is “producer”. In ordinary usage it means the company that made the thing. Under the […]
CE Marking Importer Obligations: What You Are Responsible For
Most explanations of CE marking are written for manufacturers. That is understandable, since the manufacturer does the engineering work and signs the declaration. It is also why CE marking importer obligations are so often misunderstood, and why so many importers arrive at the subject believing their part is simply to check the mark is there. […]
NBTC vs TISI: Which Thai Approval Your IT Equipment Actually Needs
A rack-mounted server with no wireless may need one Thai product approval. Add a wireless management module and the regulatory route can change entirely. Ship equipment that will later be re-exported and a separate trade-control question can arise. The hardware barely changes. The path to market does. The NBTC vs TISI question gets asked constantly, […]
Import VAT and the Importer of Record: Who Can Reclaim It?
If you ship IT hardware at volume, you already have people who handle import VAT. A finance team, a tax adviser, a recovery process that works. This article is not about doing their job. It is about the thing that sits upstream of them and quietly decides whether their process can work at all: how […]
Your First Shipment Into a New Country Will Not Go Smoothly
Nobody tells you this at the start, so we will. Your first shipment into a new country will probably not go smoothly. Not because your team is careless, and not because you picked a difficult market. Because a first entry is a genuinely different exercise from every entry that follows it, and most import plans […]
The EU Cyber Resilience Act: What Hardware Importers Must Do
You have named your importer of record, cleared customs, and checked the CE marking. For connected hardware entering the EU, that is no longer the whole job. The EU Cyber Resilience Act adds a separate market-access condition, cybersecurity, and it introduces a second kind of importer whose duties are defined by law, not by your […]
How to Import ASIC Miners: The Customs, HS Code and IOR Guide
A pallet of new mining rigs can be worth more than a delivery van full of laptops, and it can sit at the border just as easily. Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miners are high in value, concentrated in origin, and unusually exposed to the two things customs authorities scrutinise most: how the goods are classified […]
How to Protect High-Value Tech Cargo: The Risks That Actually Cost You
There are two ways to lose a high-value shipment. One is dramatic: a truck is hijacked, a container disappears, a pallet of servers is gone. The other is quiet: the goods sit untouched in a bonded warehouse for three weeks because the paperwork was wrong, the importer was not authorised, or customs flagged the valuation. […]
IT Hardware Import Compliance by Country: Rules That Stop Shipments
IT hardware import regulations by country are rarely identical, even when the equipment is the same. The same server, router, or laptop can clear customs smoothly in one country and sit blocked for weeks in another. The hardware is identical. What changes is the regulation waiting for it on the other side of the border. […]
Ship Loaned or No-Sale Equipment to Canada Without CARM Registration
Here is a situation we see constantly. A US or international company needs to send equipment to Canada, laptops on long-term loan to a client’s staff, demo units, tools that stay the company’s property and are never sold. There is no sale, no invoice value changing hands, so it feels like it should be simple. […]