FAQ Entry #451

This is a respond to a previously asked question about the A' Design Award and Competition. The full list of frequently asked questions can be accessed here.

#451: I got an email about exhibition shipment custom duty fees, what is this about! Is not the exhibition is free?

Exhibition is free for sure for our professional edition winners. If you are asked to pay extra fees for custom duties, then the issue is related to the value of the item you note during shipment. Normally, smaller amounts are not subject to a customs duty fee, and therefore most designers will note a symbolic amount, however if you note a high value for your work when you are shipping it, your work will most likely stuck at customs, as written in terms and agreements, when your work is stuck at customs, we pay up to a certain amount to retrieve your work, we pay money to the government to be able to withdraw your work from customs, plus there is always additional input and effort from us required to complete the procedure such as filling documents that indicate whether the object is safe for import as well as invoices to be paid to couriers and invoices to be prepared for you for paying us the fees for the custom duties so that we could pay the custom duties to couriers who pay the duties to the government. Now you think we are charging you extra for exhibition, but it is absolutely not the case; you are getting charged only because you indicate a high value for your item and because we were obliged to pay these fees to the courier who would otherwise send your item back to you.

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The following questions could be related:

• #121: Is there any other payments after paying the processing fees?
• #182: Since I don't have a prototype of my design, I would like to know if there will be posters of the winning designs shown at the exhibition?
• #184: Is the exhibition open to public or only upon request? What is the official opening hours of the exhibition for the public?
• #192: I would like to know if I can send my courier to pick-up both Physical Components of the Winner's Kit and the Exhibition Materials for Awarded Design. When can I send the courier?
• #222: Are the contents of our exhibition only the poster of our winning entry or are we allowed to exhibit other projects from our company?
• #227: How many pieces do I exhibit at the exhibition? Can I exhibit my other designs?
• #244: I have a project that has won the A' Design Awards and I have a video of this project, can I exhibit the video in the exhibition?
• #288: What are the requirements to participate in the exhibition for spatial design projects?
• #351: Where the selected designs are going to be displayed? Which cities?
• #409: I live in an another country, I am not sure if I could attend or bring my item to exhibition.
• #488: Do Platinum and Golden Winners get bigger exhibition space?
• #493: I need to send an item back, what do I write as its value?
• #502: I send my package to your exhibition in another country, I got confirmation before I sent package that you would exhibit my work, but no one picked my package from the post office in the destination country, how do I get compensated?
• #522: What is the MOOD: Museum of Outstanding Design?

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