Buy local vs import · United Kingdom
Importing to the United Kingdom: is it actually cheaper?
We haven't priced individual products for United Kingdom yet — but the checker works on any United Kingdom product link right now: paste one and we read its price, match our US price of record, and do the landed-cost math below. Here's how importing to United Kingdom works.
How importing to the United Kingdom works
- Import VAT
- 20% on the US price + shipping (CIF), above a £135 de-minimis threshold.
- Duty
- 0% — Smartphones, laptops, cameras and headphones carry a 0% MFN customs-duty rate in the UK Global Tariff under the WTO Information Technology Agreement (ITA), so duty is effectively nil regardless of value; import VAT at 20% still applies. Verify the specific commodity code on the UK Integrated Online Tariff.
- Forwarding
- Stackry, from the US — about 3-8 days.
- FX
- £0.757/USD mid-market + 3% card spread, as of 2026-10-09.
Every verdict is computed only from these figures — it's never for sale, and we're not a shipping company, so we don't earn more when you import.