Shipping items to Tenerife from UK. What are the customs requirements?

[LizzyW]

further to the earlier message, we have changed plans again and will be flying to Tenerife from mainland Spain as it is too difficult to buy a car in Spain and drive it over to TF (in terms of documentation etc). I am trying to understand how anyone will know that we are permanent residents and not just on a long holiday. Will this be because we will be applying for residency and padron? So let's says we are now residents will we then have to do something about paying duty on the personal belongings we have already brought in?

[Hepa]

[QUOTE=LizzyW;533762]further to the earlier message, we have changed plans again and will be flying to Tenerife from mainland Spain as it is too difficult to buy a car in Spain and drive it over to TF (in terms of documentation etc). I am trying to understand how anyone will know that we are permanent residents and not just on a long holiday. Will this be because we will be applying for residency and padron? So let's says we are now residents will we then have to do something about paying duty on the personal belongings we have already brought in?[/QUOTE]

We have imported our entire household contents, from U.K. to El Hierro via Tenerife, padron and NIE were needed when the container arrived in Tenerife, we did not have to pay one penny import duty.