Klarinet Archive - Posting 000879.txt from 2002/11

From: Britt Park <britt@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] Instruments from outside the US.
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:01:47 -0500

I just bought about $3000 dollars worth of musical instruments from a
shop in England. (I'm in the U.S.) Does anyone have any experience
purchasing from overseas? In particular has anybody had to use a
customs broker? According to the U.S. Customs web-site. Items over
$2000 in value are held at customs and the receiver has to jump through
a number of bureaucratic hoops to pay duty and get the items released.
I'm hoping that in practice most items go through anyway. This hasn't
happened to me yet, I'm just afraid it will.

TIA

Britt

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