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  1. Hi Deby You didn't do anything illegal at all. Kauri (Agathis australis) the New zealand variety Is not allowed to be logged and milled anymore here in NZ - this after hugely extensive forest were pillaged over a few centuries untill, in fact, fairly recently. However, in past history - some 50 000 years ago some of those trees fell over in swamps and were well preserved. Those trees are now being recovered and milled legally. The timber is called "swamp kauri". Some of them have stunning grain, have a more whisky colour, and coming from large diameter boles are very hard and dense, but not always easy to machine because of the twisting and weaving of the grain. Your heart sinks when you got a nice plank and when putting it through a ripsaw you see two pieces snaking out from the other end. This timber is not petrified. Salvage kauri are logs which were lost during river transport in the past, and can now, with a permit be "salvaged" and milled. Still beautiful and a bit lighter in colour. If for some reason a kauri if felled with special permission of DOC the timber is more sappy, straw coloured and quite ofted damaged by impatient kiln treatment. [:)] Wouter
  2. Thank you all for your suggestions. The shipping agent is coming around wednesday and will hopefully shed some light on what I can and can't take with me. Import tax on trade tools I imagine can be claimed back again at a later stage and if not than that's life I guess. Meanwhile I'll have to furnish a comprehensive inventory and accounts with book value etc. As far as the timber is concerned: some of it I hoarded over the years has some stunning grain and quality. Yes some Kauri - heart and very hard - and a lot of special pieces. Maybe I can use some of it as crates or even make some furniture of it before it goes in the container. The prospect of uprooting and moving the whole lot is such, that I may just have to close my eyes for a while and let things happen. Any way thanks again and if any of you can think of something, please post it Wouter[B]
  3. I'm planning to come to France within the next five to six months from New Zealand. In the container I plan to pack all my woodworking and building tools I have aquired over the years. In fact a complete workshop with some heavy items like e.g. a dimension saw. Recently a friend of mine told me, that his son requested him to send over his plumbing tools to the UK only to find out that he had to pay import duties on "tools of trade" - apparently that was the operative word - even though his tools were patently his and had been used for several years. I have searched the internet for import regulations when moving to France, but some how apart from prohibitions on guns, drugs and flammables I have not been able to find anything on duties on tools. If anyone can shed some light on this, I would be very thankful. As a woodworker I'm also a terrible hoarder. I got a fair amount of beatiful timber I would like to stick in the container - like teak, birdseye rockmaple and some New Zealand Native timbers. Would that create any problems? [B] Thanks Wouter
  4. Hi Ernie Thank you very much for your reply. Exactly the info I was hoping to get. I have to find a weighbridge now and find out  - after only 20 years - what the actual weight is of the assemblage. I think we will fly to get there, but having said that, I read one story of an old fellow who was plucked of his dory by the Coast guard after he decided to cross the Northern Atlantic to visit relatives in Europe. [B] Thanks again Wouter
  5. Save any serious upheaval it looks as we will be heading for Europe > France > possibly Aude region. However our immediate problem is what goes in the container apart from the kitchen sink. More specific; I have a classic model wooden sailing boat 17.5 feet Swampscott dory which I would like to bring along, but a problem could be the trailer it is sitting on. In NZ for this weight  (The boat is approximately 250-300 kg and the trailer is lightly constructed) there is no requirement for fancy braking systems. It has braking lights, indicators, rear lights and white lights on the front of the mudwings. Other than that it is really a basic boat trailer. QUESTION: Could anyone please comment whether this trailer would need any modifications after import into France or should I just forget about the trailer and try to get one conforming to EU standards once in France. Thank you.[:)] Wouter
  6. Thanks Spg It did the trick. I have found a lead.
  7. Further to this posting. The website owners have given me permission to use my website url as a signature and they were so kind to post that straightaway. This to enable anyone who would like to help to contact me offline without giving away all kind of particulars. I have been digesting heaps of information about moving to France and the Perigord and the workings of the wheels of  the powers that be and that makes for a lot of tossing and turning and wondering if I'm a square peg or a round one and heaven forbid I'll find to have to fit in a round hole or a square one. See the problem. All I would like, is to make a contact with someone I can talk to about the nitty gritty of things. Thanks
  8. Hi   My wife and I would like to move to France, Perigord in particular. Both of us have European Nationality and passports. The snag is that we have lived in New Zealand since the early and mid seventies respectively. My wife moved to NZ as a child following her Parents and I immigrated to NZ after having worked in Africa. In all I only spent my teen-age years in Europe studied and did my compulsory stint in the army and left when I was 23.To cut it short; neither of us has ever made social contributions into any sort of scheme in Europe and although both of us have worked all the time in NZ and paid our taxes we wouldn’t be entitled to any sort of social benefit or super annuation if we left now. Soooooo....if and when we arrive in France we have to work, which is absolutely no problem in as far that we are very willing to work, have umpteen ideas to make a living, and have no problem at all to contribute to taxes and what have you. Now just to strike camp here and go to France to find ourselves up the stream without a paddle wouldn’t do. So my question is..... Could someone on this forum get in contact with me or point me to someone else who is an accountant (British or Dutch, conversant with French law etc or A French Accountant who speaks English). This in order for me to be able to actually talk to by phone and or email and possibly meet up with when in France to ask about and discuss some very pertinent issues requiring very pertinent answers. Sorry that was a big mouth full. Many thanks in anticipation.
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