Who pays customs duty on a wholesale tarot order shipped to the United States?

Import charges are the buyer's responsibility unless the order confirms they are prepaid. Duty depends on the goods, origin and rules in force at import; a zero product-duty rate does not rule out customs-processing or carrier fees.

Can Dark Forest quote the exact duty I will pay?

No. Duty and tax are set by the importing country's customs authority at the time of import, based on the goods classification, origin and rules then in force, and for the UK, the buyer's own VAT status. No supplier's price list fixes that figure in advance.

What does a 12-deck wholesale order cost before customs, delivered to the United States?

$226.80: $190.80 for 12 decks at $15.90 each, plus $36.00 delivery at $3.00 a deck. Any import duty or carrier processing fee is separate and is the buyer's responsibility unless prepaid.

Where do Dark Forest wholesale orders ship from?

Ukraine. Every published destination, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, ships from there, which is the origin each country's customs rule above applies against.

Landed cost

Customs, Duties and Import Tax on Wholesale Tarot Card Orders (US, UK, Canada)

Q: What import VAT applies to a wholesale order shipped to the UK?

VAT treatment differs for consignments up to £135 and for VAT-registered business buyers; larger consignments may incur import VAT and duty. The rule depends on both the consignment value and the buyer's VAT registration status.

Q: What import charges apply to a wholesale order shipped to Canada?

Courier imports from Ukraine above CAD 20 may incur duty, GST/HST and clearance fees. Because Dark Forest ships from Ukraine, most wholesale orders of a real size are above that line.

Import charges on a Dark Forest wholesale order are the buyer's responsibility unless the order confirms they are prepaid. The exact rule differs by country: the US ties it to who prepays, the UK sets a £135 consignment-value line, and Canada sets a CAD 20 line for courier imports from Ukraine. This guide states all three, plainly, so an international buyer can estimate the true landed cost before ordering.

DARK FOREST · WHOLESALE GUIDES · UPDATED 22 SEPTEMBER 2026

Who pays customs on a US wholesale order

Import charges are the buyer's responsibility unless the order confirms they are prepaid. Current terms word it carefully: duty depends on the goods, origin and rules in force at import, and a zero product-duty rate does not rule out customs-processing or carrier fees. In practice, budget for the possibility of a customs or carrier processing fee even when the product duty itself is zero.

A Dark Forest tarot deck with its wooden box and drawstring pouch, cards fanned out on a dark cloth surrounded by crystals — A packaged Dark Forest deck, photographed from stock — the physical unit a customs authority classifies and taxes on import.

UK import VAT: the £135 line

VAT treatment differs for consignments up to £135 and for VAT-registered business buyers; larger consignments may incur import VAT and duty. A UK wholesale buyer under a VAT-registered account should check how that registration changes the treatment of their specific consignment before ordering — the rule depends on both the consignment value and the buyer's own VAT status, not the value alone.

Canada: the CAD 20 line

Courier imports from Ukraine above CAD 20 may incur duty, GST/HST and clearance fees. Because Dark Forest ships from Ukraine, a Canadian wholesale order of any real size — a 12-deck order at $190.80 in goods is well above that line — should assume these charges apply rather than treat them as an edge case.

Why no supplier can quote your exact duty

Duty and tax depend on the goods classification, the origin, the destination country's rules in force at the moment of import, and — for the UK specifically — the buyer's own VAT registration status. None of that is fixed by the supplier's price list; it is set by the importing country's customs authority at the time the parcel arrives. The three country-specific rules above are the closest a wholesale buyer can get to a landed-cost estimate before that point, and are stated here because no printer or distributor we checked in this market publishes a country-by-country breakdown this specific — most say nothing about customs at all.

Dark Forest private-label packaging examples with Moonlight and Vintage tarot decks side by side — Finished decks in their boxes, photographed from stock. Each one is a declared unit on the customs paperwork for an international order.

A worked example: landed cost on a 12-deck US order

Part of the order	Amount (USD)
12 decks × $15.90	$190.80
Delivery to the United States, 12 × $3.00	$36.00
Decks and delivery	$226.80
Import duty / carrier processing fee	buyer's cost unless prepaid — depends on goods, origin and rules in force

The $226.80 line is the confirmed, published total for decks and delivery. The duty line cannot be filled in generically for every order — it is the one part of landed cost that is set by customs, not by Dark Forest's price list, which is exactly why this guide names the rule for each country rather than a single number.

Where the decks ship from

Dark Forest decks are made in Ukraine and ship from there to every published destination. That is the origin that determines the Canada CAD 20 rule above; US and UK buyers should read their own country's customs guidance against a Ukraine-origin shipment specifically, not a general import estimate.

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See the full delivered price by country and start your order on the wholesale front door — trade pricing applies automatically from 12 decks.