On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 02:24:51PM -0700, Connolly, James wrote: > Perhaps another way of asking is if your U.S. customers ever end up > paying import duties on what you send them. Any advice would be welcome.
I've purchased several musical instruments from overseas, and they were labeled as such with a $$ value attached, and I've never had to pay a duty. Big companies generally use a shipping service, which handles paying the duty. Our postal service isn't really set up to collect duties from the recipient, unlike some other countries. So a commercial shipment without a duty payment will be held in limbo until it's paid. And they can't afford to do that for small items. -- greg
