On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:11 PM, David Kirkby <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I've also had to pay inport duties and VAT on this, which comes to a > US equivalent of around $220. I doubt I will be able to recover that. > > Talk to your customs people. Almost always oin most con tries if you "re-export" an item you can apply for a refund. I don't know the rules in the UK but it works like that in the US and Canada. One amusing case was when I worked at Hughes Aircraft. The company imported a rather large (close to $1M) diamond from Amsterdam and paid a large duty on it. They sawed a section out of it to make an optical window for a probe to be sent to Venus. Then after launch they applied for and got a refund of the duty because the diamond was exported out of the US to another planet where to this day it remains. My point is that re-export is common and they should have a procedure for it. Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
