18 Nov
1999
18 Nov
'99
4:19 a.m.
> You may have to pay State tax on the purchase
price when bringing it across
> the border. Be sure to say it is for your PERSONAL hobby. Get a receipt from
> the place you are purchasing the mini from.
Another time I went to Buffalo and the charge was
$US10.00 which the fellow
surprised me by actually asking for it. Not that it was not worth that much (BA123
with RD53 and TK50), but usually when the price is that low, no one actually cares.
At the border, they did not even care about the invoice, the main factor was the date
on the power supply - 1985 which made it so old that the customs guy could hardly
believe it. So again, I was waived through without any duties or GST.
Well, at least over here age is no term within this calculation.
It's all about the right duty class number - and there are ZILLIONS
(well ok, a little less, but it is a book of more than 3000 pages
with several dozend numbers per page ... and you have to find the
exact type - of course almost all lead to two or three simplyfied
charges, but you have to have it - for example, is a radio module
(to be used on a radio reciver card) a radio, a PC component, an
electronic component, a comunication device or ... or ... or.
At the moment I have this problems with the customs in Bremen, about
my small pile of stuff from my last US visit ... 20 Boxes with some
eq, from a coco2 up to an RK05J... And the officers hate to look for
these numbers ...
Gruss
H.
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HRK