Thread: Europe synthetic hone prices

VAT is an EU Tax and it is made against the American Ecomonomical export , mainly . As the US stocks or goods are at a good prise and they are at a nice qualiy , Japanese also , Chinise also has a good ratio of quality prise , so the ЕU leaders get money and make the import of not US goods in EU more conplicated In this way the EU manifacturers are at a better position , at the prise stage , than the import goods
Business lobby and protect of interest and there are other taxes for the so called not tax free goods - Tobacco , Liquer and cosmetics , medicines and so and so
Taxex that assure that the people buy only from the official importers at big prises
As a matter of hones better buy from Japan directly or from SRD shop as theyre prises for Synthetycs are veeery good

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The Dieter Schmidt site has what they're calling Naniwa Sharpening Stones. Are they the same as super/specialty stones? Colours seem to match, white 12k and yellow 8k.

Originally Posted by dmnc

The Dieter Schmidt site has what they're calling Naniwa Sharpening Stones. Are they the same as super/specialty stones? Colours seem to match, white 12k and yellow 8k.

My Naniwa Super Stones are 12K white, 8K yellow and 3K brown if that helps any. You could also query them direct too.

Bob

Will be month at least before looking at buying, don't like querying from sellers when not looking to buy immediately (tends to tempt me into premature purchasing). Thought someone may have seen them both being sold somewhere if they were different. If the same then that site has the 2cm thick ones for the price I've been seeing the 1cm ones elsewhere. Was making me doubt that they're the same as the thicker ones seem to cost significantly more most places.

When I first bought Naniwas several years ago they were the thin ones which came with bases attached. The colour coding for grits was the same as for the thick ones I bought last year. The site I bought the 2cm thick ones has the 8K for $88.95 CAD and the 12K for $126.95 CAD currently.

Bob

Originally Posted by RusenBG

VAT is an EU Tax and it is made against the American Ecomonomical export

VAT is not against importers from outside. VAT is on all goods bought in the EU. It does not matter who made it. It is sales tax without cascade effect. By the way VAT is also in Japan. In many countries, VAT is one of the most important state revenues.

It pays to buy at Fine tools than direct import in most cases. VAT and transport from Japan will get a similar price.

If you are inside the EU and buying from inside the EU you pay the country of sale's VAT%. (buying from germany you pay the german VAT% wherever you are in the EU) if ordering to an outside EU country from the EU they simply decuct the local VAT % and then you pay your countries VAT % when it goes into your own country. In germany they have like 19% VAT and in scandinavia its 25% so buying from germany to for example sweden is saving you money if the shipping cost is low or if you are buying lots of stuff at a single purchase. UK also has low VAT. Also the more peiople living in a country or language region the cheaper it becomes since now there is competition. In sweden for example there lives about 10mil people, in germany/austria/switzerland "the german region" its like 100mil. so the prices go down.