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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 3644919, member: 105098&quot;]My work is international shipping. Hate to say it but it&#039;s not all ebay. A lot of the additional shipping costs are export then import customs and it&#039;s gotten much higher as of lately (I am going to leave politics out of this, hopefully everyone else will too.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if no duties are owed because of low value on the commercial invoice/proforma you still have processing fees from both countries, the u.s. side for the export, the other countries side for the import. And this can be variable from country to country.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every import I do at work, even for my own tools I sent from the u.s. to do a job and are returning will cost me about $85 in filing fees with customs alone and then add to that if it was a new commodity entering the country or if it has a qualifying commercial value to be taxed additional on top.</p><p><br /></p><p>About a month ago I ordered parts for a 10 cylinder boat motor rebuild from greece, about $80k worth, but they would of cost me $110K buying them here in the u.s.</p><p>Anyways it cost me about $2500 to fly them here, and it cost me $3000 for customs and duties. I still saved $25k doing it this way, but my point is customs documentation costs and formalites make most small purchases internationally shipped outrageous and unaffordable.</p><p><br /></p><p>I sent tax documents to Indonesia. 10 sheets of paper. It cost me $85.00 to do it and short of sending it US Postal service with no tracking and relying on the public postal system in Indonesia with no tracking, it was the cheapest way to do it. Lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d say up your purchases at one time and one shipment so that the shipping doesn&#039;t seem so bad compared to the value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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