duty on parts from the UK
Does anyone have a good method for estimating duty and fees from the UK to the US? I have about $1000 in a potential order from Burton I'd like to place.
Decades ago I bought a complete set of suspension from Alan Cornock, only to find I was just a few bucks over some limit that dramatically increased my costs.
Tried a couple of online calculators and it seemed like duty was not much compared to a lot of the BS the brokers piled on.
Some data finally from CBP
Along the way I got a survey from CBP and complained that I got no response. As a result I was given the direct e-mail address for the folks in Detroit that handle auto realted imports, so if you ever need that, its:
cee-automotive@cbp.dhs.gov
and the guy that answered me was :
JOSHUA.M.ASHLINE@cbp.dhs.gov
What he said was that the de minimus limit is $800 PER DAY, so yes, you can split shipments if you are willing to eat the extra shipping/handling costs.
Be aware, if you don't space them out and two hit on the same day they are counted as one.....
They knew nothing of the supposed $1200 online purchase limit, so I assume that was some kind of a short term deal not in effect any more.