"Best" Courier for Importing Parts from Germany to Scotland

[Strocky]

About to order £700 worth of plasma consumables from Germany

The German supplier isn't charging us VAT but has put a Export declaration charge of €33 (but having read their note that's only applicable for orders over €1000)

The shipping terms are FCA according to Incoterms 2020, ex warehouse

Which one of these would be the best bet to use?
DHL, FedEx, TNT or UPS

And what sort of handling/import charge should I expect?
Obviously I need to pay VAT on the goods

[AlBondigaz]

I bought 750€ (approx £650) of suspension components from Germany in December. This price included shipping of 29.90€.

UPS charged me £144 which included £130 of UK VAT, so the UPS fee was about £15 handling + £26 shipping = £41.

Weight of parcel, the contents of which were two front damper units for a Mercedes Sprinter, was in the region of 15kg,

Edited by AlBondigaz on Tuesday 10th February 10:25

[Strocky]

AlBondigaz said:

I bought 750 (approx £650) of suspension components from Germany in December. This price included shipping of 29.90 .

UPS charged me £144 which included £130 of UK VAT, so the UPS fee was about £15 handling + £26 shipping = £41.

Weight of parcel, the contents of which were two front damper units for a Mercedes Sprinter, was in the region of 15kg,

Edited by AlBondigaz on Tuesday 10th February 10:25

Cheers mate, that's helpful

[Strocky]

Ended up not having to bother, our UK distributor who was quoting a leadtime we might struggle with piped up that for £65 expedited carriage they could shave 3 weeks off their leadtime from the Czech Republic so going down that route now and let them deal with all the customs pish