Useful Information For Sending Parcels From Hong Kong To Taiwan

As a business center, Taiwan is focused on making business transactions as easy as possible. Because of this, most small, letter-size shipments are completely duty-free and easily pass through the border of Taiwan. This makes it extremely easy to ship paperwork, proposals and other business mail from HK to TW. Packages, however, need full customs forms and proper declarations, but FreightAmigo will digitize this as part of the booking process.

If you’re shipping to TW from HK, FreightAmigo’s courier quote comparison tool will provide you with quotes from multiple couriers, so you can compare prices and transit times all in one place and choose the best price and service for you!

If you’re looking to reduce your freight costs to TW from HK, our discounted rates with international couriers like UPS, Aramex, TNT, DHL will help.

Due to the shipment volume FreightAmigo send, we receive discounted rates from a number of world-renowned courier companies. This allows us to offer some of the cheapest freight rates on the market. Simply enter the weight and dimensions of your parcel into our courier quote comparison tool to compare and book best freight solution to Taiwan.

You can ship the parcel to TW from HK in 2-4 days, depends on your choice of courier. You may track your parcel along the journey 24×7.

Importing forbidden goods is subject to applicable restrictions and requires previous application or submission of licenses, permits, or certifications. Items that are restricted under Taiwan’s recently announced import restrictions include:

For more information, please check the Taiwan Customs website. Before you book a parcel delivery to TW from HK, please also ensure you are complied with the rules and regulations. This is important in order to mitigate the risk of your parcel being delayed or returned, which may cause extra charges.

If the dutiable value is less than NT$2,000, air, sea, and imported packages are excluded from business tax. Tobacco, alcohol, and agricultural products subject to tariff quotas are not included (the same below). Taxes will be applied regardless of the purchase amount after the same recipient is imported more than six times in a half-year.

Dutiable Value = Item Amount + Shipping + Insurance

Import duty: 5%-10%

Sales tax rate = 5%

Amount of business tax = (duty-paid value + import tax + excise tax + tobacco and alcohol tax + tobacco health and welfare contribution) × business tax collection rate (5%)

In the following general situation, the recipient should go through the customs declaration to the customs within 15 days from the day after the postal agency sends the notice on the supplementary customs inspection procedure:

You can check at the CPT single window

STEP 1

Register for free, log in to the FreightAmigo platform. At the “Instant Quote” page, enter the origin & destination, select the type “Parcel”, enter other cargo information, then click “Search”.

STEP 2

FreightAmigo based on the cargo information you entered, the quote options and required transit time of different international courier service providers will be listed for you to compare, and you can immediately see the cheapest price.

After selecting the desired quotation, you can click “Book” to place an order. If you wish to send urgent items, you can choose “Fastest” in the sorting option, and you will see the quotation with the shortest shipping time~

Compared with customer’s walk-in and asking courier companies, FreightAmigo quotation is much cheaper!

STEP 3

Fill in the relevant shipping information, i.e. pick up date and time, and then select the payment method for online booking.

In addition to receiving an email confirmation from FreightAmigo after payment, you can also download from “My Shipment/Email” and print the shipping document on one side. Tutorial here

Most important! Customers can track the shipment by one-stop, and send it safely and at ease!

With FreightAmigo’s “Track & Trace” function, you can check the status of DHL, UPS, FedEx and other courier companies on one platform. Or just go to “My Shipment” and you can track the status of the package in real time. You don’t need to check it on different websites and know the latest shipment status in real time!

Learn to use the FreightAmigo platform and easily save your time! If you are interested, you can try the online quotation or use the green icon “Amigo Chat” in the lower right corner to find customer service for help!

If the dutiable value is less than NT$2,000, business tax is excluded (the same below).

Taxes will be applied regardless of the purchase amount after the same recipient is imported more than six times in a half-year.

Foods that must be refrigerated include those that have pharmaceutical components and contain meat. ammunition, controlled explosives and devices, real or fake weapons, flammable materials, etc.

The quickest is typically within 2 days, and it won’t take longer than 8 days.

* All final charges are based on FreightAmigo Services Limited’s online system.
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