Flavio Minelli wrote: > I had deliveries from the USA from both business and privates. I believe > the customs will charge 10% as Duty in US imports and 20% VAT.
10% duties? Flavio, in which country do you live? :-) Maybe Rome customs add extra fees? Is this deregulation? > I never > had to send up documents to them as long as value and nature of the > delivery was declared on the box. No documents asked to the recipient? Are you sure it's Italy? :-) > Delivery time was around 1 week or so. At this point, I believe that different customs work different. I bought about 200 items from outside Europe during the last few years. I usually received goods either at Milan or Bologna customs, and be sure they work the way I wrote in my previous email. > He won't escape the taxes unless > you declared the item as a gift and the value is less then 100 Euro/$ or > so. The taxes will be paid to the postman Again, it's different over here. Usually, I have to send tax payment in advance (by money order) to the customs office, before they'll ship the box to me. From time to time (but that's quite uncommon) I'm asked to pay the postman. > delivering the item who, BTW, > has no responsibility for the actual acquisition of the item by the > recipient, he can leave it on the doormat or near the mailbox, if > there's nobody home and he feels like it. Unfortunately I have to confirm Flavio's statements here. Dario Bonazza -------------------------------- http://digilander.iol.it/aohc/ - 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 .
