Re:The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China an...
by gambiting on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:12PM
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When I was at high school I used to import all kinds of memory card adapters from dealextreme and sell them on immediately for 10x the price on ebay. My dad ended up helping me pay taxes on the money I made because it was actually getting really significant
>>Even when I was buying crate loads of goods, I only got a customs bill only like 2 times out of 10 in 3 years.
Tbf, you should have been paying for every crate, even if the customs agency didn't intercept it. It's up to you to make sure the duties are paid - if you ever got caught you would have been wholly responsible for not paying the duties even if you weren't asked to. But yeah, I know how it works in practice.
>>Even when I was buying crate loads of goods, I only got a customs bill only like 2 times out of 10 in 3 years.
Tbf, you should have been paying for every crate, even if the customs agency didn't intercept it. It's up to you to make sure the duties are paid - if you ever got caught you would have been wholly responsible for not paying the duties even if you weren't asked to. But yeah, I know how it works in practice.