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- From: tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich)
- Subject: Re: Personally importing a bike ???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.221228.5298@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:12:28 GMT
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- >in article <724655546.AA05467@urchin.fidonet.org> Howard.Gerber@f88.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Howard Gerber) writes:
-
- (Devious plane for avoiding import duties)
-
- Uh, If you fly to Europe, buy a bike and then _use_ it there, you
- are importing a _used_ bike and I don't believe there is any duty
- on it.
-
- However, if you fly to Europe and buy a new bike you could probably
- not have bothered. European bikes generally have pretty )(*& paint
- jobs and the price is almost identical to what you could buy it for
- here.
-
- In fact, you can probably buy better components here since Shimano,
- Suntour and Campagnolo all have better distribution channels here then
- they do over most of Europe.
-
- If you are in Europe (or if you're going over there anyway) and you
- want to ship a bike back to the states, just call a Custom's office and
- ask them the particulars. Most of the time the duties and taxes are
- pretty insignificant compared to the risk. And as I said, I don't believe
- that _used_ bikes are subject to duties in the first place.
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