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U.S. postal charges question |
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Mojarn Piett
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Post subject: U.S. postal charges question  Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:34 am |
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Hello to those beyond the world pond.
No, this is not a rant about federal mail services. I just need to know one small detail about U.S. postal charges (in international shipments, naturally). Namely, do the charges include VAT?
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Dwarf Supreme
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Post subject: U.S. postal charges question Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:04 pm |
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Not that I'm aware of. When I shipped those Chaos minis to you, no VAT was added.
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Moscovian
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Post subject: U.S. postal charges question Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:27 pm |
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I just shipped some items to Justiniel in the UK and nothing was mandated on my end. However, I have been seeing stuff from across the pond with the VAT coming to me.
Does this answer your question?
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Post subject: U.S. postal charges question Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:08 pm |
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As far as I can remember it works something like this. If you have something delivered from the US, it is liable for tax. The person who receives the item is the one who has to pay for it. That said, it is pure chance whether your parcel gets picked out by the the Customs or not. It is more likely that it would get pulled if it has a high value, i.e what has been put on the CN22 customs declaration form. If you are dealing with a private individual, you can get them to put a lower value, and also mark it as a gift. Of course, a business/company cannot do this, so again it would be more likely to be pulled.
I have had quite a few parcels sent from the US, and probably 90% have come through just fine. I did have one a couple of years back worth nearly $500, that I had to pay nearly ?75 excess tax on  , unfortunately there is nothing you can do about it, if you want your items, you have to pay the tax. Also, when I lived in Finland, I had a small parcel arrive from GHQ, I had to go the local port customs office, they wanted to charge 10-15 euros tax. I managed to get out of paying it, by saying I didn't understand what the customs official was going on about. 
Anyway, hope this helps. To sum up, it's basically a pure chance thing whether you get clobbered for the tax or not.
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