Online shopping in Norway

For online shopping here, I usually use apps for certain local shops where they have a membership program. While for international online shops, I mostly order from the U.S. and U.K. websites :

amazon.com
amazon.co.uk

As a general rule,

When ordering items from foreign online stores, in most cases you must pay 25 per cent VAT when the item arrives in Norway. If you are buying clothes, you also have to pay duty.

If you order goods from abroad where the shipment has a value of less than NOK 350 including freight and insurance costs, it is free of duties and taxes. This means that you do not have to pay VAT or customs duties on the goods.

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE for someone to start an indexed list of online retailers who ship to Norway (and what their shipping rates are, who removes VAT from their prices, and who handles Norwegian VAT versus making you do it on your own)! For a lot of European websites, I end up having to email to ask if they ship here, waiting for a response, and begging them to remove the VAT from the product prices because “no, Norway is not actually a member of the EU.”

For home goods, I just discovered that Wayfair.co.uk and zarahome.com/no both ship to Norway. 🎉