Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2019-04-14 07:22
If they ship the instrument, Howarth will do the CITES paperwork for something like £50. If you bring it back, no form is required. I recently came back with a set of S&Ss, declared the full value at US Customs, and they sent me through the nothing to declare line. I think there's a very hefty exemption before they start charging people duties. With VAT, there are two ways of doing it. One is that you pay it and get a form, and they refund it at the airport when you leave, as described above. The other is that they don't charge it and give you a different form, and you need to get the form stamped when they inspect your instrument on the way out, and you send the form or email a PDF of it back to the seller, which is what S&S does.
When I was in school, Buffet had a thing where if you went to Paris, bought a new clarinet, and brought it back, customs wouldn't let it in. I'm sure that went away a long time ago, but I don't know when or why. It gave me a lifetime loathing for the American pricing and distribution system.
If you go to London and have time, it's fun to try out mouthpieces at Ed Pillinger's and Peter Eaton's, though they're on opposite sides of the city, so hitting both takes all day.
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