Wicker isn't the car left hand drive though, all cars from laos are left hand drive that i have seen.

Kev

You can order right hand drive cars in Laos,just a question of waiting.

A friend of mine has a furniture factory here in Thailand.
He presented me to his transport agent (Thai company in Bangkok).
He said the same:
even if according to the law you can import personal stuff without paying import duties,
be prepared to pay something!!
He also advised me that it was better to add some things in the container like some bottles of wine, other alcohol or cigars,... or so.
This wine you have to declare and you have to pay import duties.
This will satisfy them and it will be the same like when you pay them for nothing. At least now you pay for the wine (This was the explanation of the Thai transport agent).
Let's see how this will end.
Will keep you informed as promised.

Our shipment of household effects left Miami by ship on 9/22 and arrived in Bangkok on 10/27 (we think). We shipped nine boxes (1 pallet) of used clothes, shoes, books, picture albums, kitchen items, CDs, DVDs, etc. in wife's (dual citizen of Thailand and USA) name but no antiques, booze or weapons. We're going through an agent in Bangkok and received a quote of 15,000 baht to clear customs and delivery to our door in Udon. Agent's quote said import duty/tax and storage charges weren't included so, from reading about the experiences of a few, we're expecting to pay something extra. Might still require a trip to Bangkok to present wife's passport, ID card and other documents to transport agent.

Hopefully, it will turn out as well as it did when we brought our two cats in on Thai Airways last month. No bribes were paid or asked. All paperwork was in order so paid the normal 200 baht fee to animal control and we were on our way to Udon.

I paid 30,000 baht - for everything to the Bkk agent and that was for everything from unloading the ship to delivery to Udon. They did require the passport though and this was sent through the post to them (express)

When I retired almost 2 years ago and re-located to Thailand, I brought a total of 5 foot lockers and one large box. All were within the limits for checked baggage. At the time I was coming to LOS about 6 or 7 times a year so 3 separate trips were needed. Total cost, zip! If I had it to do again I would bring much less and some things would be different.

did the same thing, made at least 6 trips in months from states. used to work for airlines, so exceeded limits all the time till the bkk/udon leg on thai, which were very gentle. actually but some things on expedite tags (lost luggage forwarding tags), some made it to udon, some just to bkk, which i would pick up if in bkk. would send expedites on earlier flights. even sent 2 large/heavy stereo speakers over, made it undamaged. untax and free shipping except for the occasion thai air excess bags. the only time i had question was when bringing music cd collection over. have to pay duty, not personal. dude, look at these boxes. old scratched, some broke. for me and wife. 'oh, you have thai wife, no problem', go figure. another time ful of household junk and my favorite shampoo and conditioner had extra in house. chickie says to much for personal use, maybe you should take some and i won't have so much, so she grabbed a shampoo, and of course i gave her a conditioner, need both. one advantage of working for airlines, plus the r/t airfare was only 200 bucks, first class. man, can that turn you into a snob after 15 yrs. to the point of, honey, shall we go on vacation today, or wait till tomorrow, first is not open today, and that was for short hops. wouldn't dream of coming over to thai in economy.

those return flights sucked after leaving airlines, economy for 24 hrs. thank god for valiums.

polehawk wrote:Our shipment of household effects left Miami by ship on 9/22 and arrived in Bangkok on 10/27 (we think). We shipped nine boxes (1 pallet) of used clothes, shoes, books, picture albums, kitchen items, CDs, DVDs, etc. in wife's (dual citizen of Thailand and USA) name but no antiques, booze or weapons. We're going through an agent in Bangkok and received a quote of 15,000 baht to clear customs and delivery to our door in Udon. Agent's quote said import duty/tax and storage charges weren't included so, from reading about the experiences of a few, we're expecting to pay something extra. Might still require a trip to Bangkok to present wife's passport, ID card and other documents to transport agent.

Well, our 9 boxes of personal effects finally were delivered to us in Udon last night. We were assessed an additional 4,000 baht for "import taxes" and 1,000 Baht for storage at the Bangkok dock warehouse. It required a trip to Bangkok agent's office to make payment and turn over wife's Thai passport but trips to Bangkok are always enjoyable to me so no big deal plus had to take care of other business there anyway.

Only in Thailand. The truck driver (from Bangkok) called us at 2 am to tell us he was "lost in Udon" and had been going round and round the three circles. My wife found out they were now close to Big C so had him wait until we got there and we could shepherd him to our house. Found out that 3 am is a nice time to drive around town. No motorcycles or tuk-tuks to deal with. Streets were deserted and the drive was an enjoyable one. Driver and his wife unloaded all of the boxes from the truck onto our front porch so we tipped them a couple hundred baht. We had planned on bro-in-law and nephews helping since we expected stuff to be delivered in daytime like any normal transport company would do. Anyway, beer for relatives would have cost a lot more than the tip so a baht saved.....

Kinda pricey getting our goods shipped here but we finally got OUR stuff.