Shipping Rules To Israel, Things To Know

It is very important to know exactly what kind of rules when need to ship household goods to Israel, the thing you need to know is the status of you are in Israel, as the rules for shipping demanding over your status. There are certain status for people who demand to ship Israel, include :

Oleh Hadash

Katin Hozer

Ezrach Oleh

Toshav Hozer

These listed above status includes different rules, just for example those in Oleh Hadash status able to import such a wide range of items that are tax free including two computers per family also kind of furniture that being used in your home. For the Toshav Hozer, a status for Israeli citizen who been away from their country for 6 years or more, and by this chance they can ship and get special tax discounts on vehicle imports

While other status that possible in influence cargo shipping to Israel includes :

Student

A-1 Visa

B-1 Visa

Tourist

Citizen

In case you are a tourist who visiting Israel then just obtain a permit for 3 months, instantly you allowed to import car without having to pay taxes. An A-1 Visas allowed to import motorcycle or car just after obtaining an Israeli driver's license also a personal import license from Israel's Ministry of Transport. Few items are being prohibited from importation but there also restricted items that may affect over a moving into Israel. Such prohibited items like weapons, alcohol, live plants also drugs, and you not allowed to bring in large quantity of any one item. This way likely to be aimed to insure a person from importing items with personal belongings that being planned to be sold

Printed materials like pictures, books or anything regarding to contains data like tapes, movies, film, video, computer software, DVDs and CD-rom or flash drive should be packed together, and easily reached by custom officials as need to look this data and could be subject to censorship due to the type of material in order to avoid if any problems due to terrorism, so its should be assured no any propaganda or terrorist related. Pack these all items together with detailed inventory list however.

Actually, households belongings can be shipped to Israel duty-free with few exceptions, all should be in your possession for at least 12 months just to ensure you are not importing anything on selling which would be subject to taxes. The tax rates based on cost, insurance and also freight items that often referred as CIF value