How much will U.S. Customs charge me for a 30$ package from Holland?
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I asked a question earlier and thought that customs charged on weight, but now I'm changing the question so I could get an answer as to my specific package. The goods within the package costed 30$.
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Answer:
For a $30 package there is no customs charge. The sender doesn't pay customs as they send it from a different country that has nothing to do with US customs. Customs duties are not assessed until a package arrives in the United States, and they cannot be paid in advance. So you (as the receiver) may end up having to pay for customs upon arrival. If duty is owed, the Postal Service will collect it from the recipient before delivering the package. See: http://help.cbp.gov/cgi-bin/customs.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=199&p_created=1043364937&p_sid=2QTIT1Ei&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjA1JnBfcHJvZHM9MCZwX2NhdHM9MCZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9ZHV0eSByYXRlcw**&p_li=&p_topview=1 Here's some info on how US customs are determined on mail packages (it's a word file): http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/publications/travel/internationalmail.ctt/internationalmail.doc For packages worth less than $100 sent as a personal gift there will be no customs fee. (see page 6 of the document) For packages ordered from abroad (or sent to self when abroad) there will be no customs fee when it's worth less than $200 (strange that this amount is higher than the gift amount, I would have thought it's the other way around). (See page 7 of the document)
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Other answers
pjalittle already answered the question in your other question. You are taxed on the cost of the package BUT you are only taxed on the value that you specifically give to the package. For example, if a sweatshirt costs $30, you write the description as a sweatshirt but give the value of only $5. This way you won't be charged any taxes. Everyone does it and there isn't a way to check that you are exaggerating unless the price tag is on the item and your package happens to get opened during transit. I send my family packages all the time from the US to England and I enter an amount of $10 when the item can easily total over $200. A couple of years ago my sister found out the hard way when she was suddenly asked to pay up $40 in taxes. This is after I had spent $40 sending the package. We decided that we would lie from now on.
Patriot
u do not get charged a customs fee. the person who sent it pays the shipping fee which goes by weight, general cost of sending,,,etc....so the 30 dollars is paid. customs does not charge unless it is a huge amount of goods such as fake jpurses, foods, etc.... if it is just a personal package with gifts and such then customs does not charge...i send stuff to my parents in the states all the time and vice versa. there is no customs charge unless its a huge huge huge box or amount of a certain goods they think you will sell in the states. ive sent a 250 dollar package at xmas and they were not charged. the person who sends it has already paid. customs is just a checkpoint to make sure nothing is illegal coming into the country...it is scanned and if they are suspicious then they open and check the box and repack it. there is no charge.
aubrey p
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