Columbus is one of the more straightforward American deliveries. The city is flat, the housing is mostly modern, and the roads were built with lorries in mind.
We connect your enquiry with a vetted international moving company from our network covering central Ohio, and they price the sea and inland legs as one job.
Goods clear at an east coast port, roughly fourteen to seventeen days from the UK on published schedules, then travel inland to central Ohio for delivery.
Clearance is completed at the coast before the inland stage, so the paperwork is settled well before delivery. Effects come in free of duty where they were for your own use, or used in a household where you were resident, for a year, and are not for sale or for anybody else.
CBP Form 3299 is the declaration for goods arriving without you, with items owned under twelve months listed apart. Effects arriving more than ten years after your last arrival from the country where they were used are normally dutiable.
Status at import changes how a shipment is handled and the published advice varies, so confirm your own case with CBP.
Before the inventory is finalised
Central Ohio is reached overland after a short Atlantic crossing. Clearance happens at the coast and the goods travel inland on well used routes, with no unusual stages in between.
There is little that is difficult about this route, which is worth saying plainly. The variables are the sailing date and the inland connection rather than anything at the address.
The Atlantic crossing runs roughly fourteen to seventeen days on published schedules, then clearance and the inland stage. Allow five to seven weeks door to door.
An east coast port, then the goods travel inland to central Ohio. The port depends on the service booked.
Rarely. Most housing is modern with driveways and wide streets, so the carry is short and the vehicle can get close.
Because the inland leg runs on a scheduled service rather than a vehicle dedicated to your shipment.
They qualify where they were for your own use, or used in a household where you were a resident, for one year, and are not intended for sale or for another person.
The declaration that supports a free entry claim for goods arriving without you. Raise it early on a Columbus enquiry so nothing is assumed on either side.
Only for most of a house. Shared container space suits smaller moves and you pay for the room you use.
Yes. Give the suburb at enquiry stage so the final run is scheduled properly. Ask the moving company handling your Columbus route to confirm it in writing before you book.
No. The moving company quotes you directly. The company quoting your Columbus move will set this out in the written quote.
Send the collection address, the Columbus suburb, your date range and a rough inventory. A moving company from our network reviews the route and contacts you.
A Working Member of AGM Group. Enquiries are connected with vetted FIDI FAIM certified and BAR Overseas accredited international moving companies from the network.
We do not move anything ourselves. Your Columbus move is handled and quoted by the moving company you are introduced to.
Written by Darren Benjamin, Founder.