Freight – Importing / Exporting

We strongly recommend sending your equipment / tyres/ vehicles by conventional sea or air freight as opposed by couriers such as Fedex, DHL etc.

Courier companies are not able to facilitate NZ Customs clearances for shipments being entered into New Zealand on a “Temporary” basis consequently the courier company will require payment of taxes/ duties before the shipment can be released unless the shipment is of low value, less than NZ $400.00 USD $250.00 being the combined value of goods and freight. This can cause considerable delay in final delivery also taxes and duties paid out in these circumstances are not refundable.

If it is necessary to send shipments by courier to the SHPG then the following steps will assist in expediting final delivery.

Equipment or tyres sent by Courier:
Address the package/s to the company and facility number you wish the goods to be sent to, not SHPG. Click here for an example.

1. For any documentation, use the testing company as the consignee, not SHPG.
2. Inform the courier company that you are sending the freight DDP (Delivery Duty Paid). This will ensure that NZ Government fees such as Goods and Services Tax and customs fees are prepaid and your freight is not help up.
3. Be aware all goods sent via courier are sent to Auckland first which will mean another 2 days at least of travelling to get to SHPG after being cleared customs.

Equipment, tyres or vehicles sent by conventional air/sea freight:

1. Address the package/s to the company and facility number you wish the goods to be sent to, not SHPG. Click here for an example.
2. To save time, ensure all freight is consigned to destination Christchurch, not Auckland.
3. When sending equipment back to its destination, you must send out exactly what you brought in and by the same freight forwarder e.g. if you import 32 tyres with Company A you must export 32 tyres with Company A.

SHPG and associates have worked with many New Zealand Customs Brokers /Freight Fowarder’s over the years. Please ask us for a recommendation Contact Us.

Important Note:
An important change has been made in the way New Zealand Customs Service interprets Section 116 of the Customs and Excise Act 1996, which governs “Temporary Imports” into New Zealand. Previously, goods temporarily imported into New Zealand for winter testing e.g. tyres and rims, where permitted to be destroyed in New Zealand rather than exported out of the country. The new regulations mean that:

All goods imported into New Zealand under a temporary import agreement MUST now be exported out of New Zealand unless:

1. All duties and GST on the goods are paid before destruction, either on arrival into NZ or at the completion of testing.
2. All goods are destroyed in a way which makes them commercially unusable.
3. All disposal costs are paid. SHPG can assist with organising disposal.