Hi, I have had troubles with customs in two countries recently (Finland and Slovakia), so I tried to find some more information how to avoid it in future.
> From: Carlos Royo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If you buy from somebody in the E.U., you won't have to pay any taxes in > Sweden, but here in Spain the local customs don't charge anything on > imports from outside the E.U. if they think that the declared value of > the goods is small. To my knowledge, this is not correct - when "bargaining" with Finnish customs officers to get my MZ-5N bought at eBay, they told me that even if the package had been sent from an EU country, since the value exceeded 300 FIM (I'm not 100% sure about this amount), I would have needed to pay customs + VAT. So, there are apparently limits even within EU countries, maybe not so strictly applied outside Finland :-). In Slovakia, the packages sent from a person to another person are free of customs as far as they are not of commercial character and do not exceed 45 euro - however, this sum refers to individual items, not the package as whole... So if you receive package of three lens each declared to cost 40 euro, you should not have any troubles with the customs officers... Well, I hope I won't! At least this is what I will try next time. I hope this gives you some help. Jozef - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
