South Korea
Low-value import rules in South Korea
Low-value consignments
Personal-use goods whose total customs value including shipping does not exceed US$150 are exempt from customs duty and VAT. Above US$150, duty and VAT are calculated on the total customs value.
In force from 2016-01-01 · Clearance of personal-use express goods
What LandedGrid does not calculate for this destination
- base duty: Rates come from the KCS annual open-data file. Adjustment, quota and emergency tariffs that change during the year may be missing until the next file.
- preferences: FTA rates are covered where the agreement code maps to a single, certain partner. The KCS FTA portal states its information is for reference only; the agreement text governs.
- trade remedies: Anti-dumping and countervailing duties are not identified reliably in the ingested file.
- quotas: Quota tariff recommendations and balances are not held. In-quota rates are never assumed.
- taxes: VAT is calculated at 10%. The legal text of the VAT base has not yet been verified by LandedGrid against a primary Korean source, and other internal taxes are not calculated.
- excise: Individual consumption tax, liquor tax, education tax and rural development special tax are not calculated.
- customs fx: KCS weekly rates require a data.go.kr service key that is not configured.
- regulatory: Import requirements under the Integrated Public Notice are not yet covered.