I too just got my Customs Bill from UPS, $ 10 plus, on my recent Moto Lita
Steering wheel bought from Europa in England. What ever happened to " NAFDA"
? Maybe NAFDA was just for making it easier to smuggle drugs into the
Country?
Phil Smith
-----Original Message-----
From: R. John Lye <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
To: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: Customs duty
>
>Jim Hill wrote:
>
>>I've also had the experience of getting a delayed bill from UPS for
customs
>>charges they claim to have paid. Sometimes I get such a bill and sometimes
I
>>don't. Makes me wonder . . .
>
>That's been my experience too; I've bought lots of stuff from England
>over the years and I seem to get charged duty about half the time. It
>seems to be completely random as to whether I get charged the duty or
>not. Once though, several of us pooled orders and ended up with quite
>a large order and found out that if the order is big enough that it
>has to go through a customs broker before the shipment will be released.
>That got *expensive* really fast; unfortunately, I don't remember the
>details of that transaction.
>
>John Lye
>
>'59 TR-3A, '62 TR-4, '70 GT-6+
>email: rjl6n@virginia.edu
>homepage: http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
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