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Subject:	Re: US Customs Duties on Lego Shipments from Europe?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.shopping
Date:	Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:48:17 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote: > > Lego is a duty free item in whatever quantity. If they try to collect > customs or duties, fight it. You'll do better if you dig up the > reference, posted here on LUGNET at some time in the past, to the US > customs web site which clearly shows that Lego is duty free, as are all > other plastic construction toys. Here is the message: http://www.lugnet.com/market/theory/?n=176 Note that this status only applies to construction toys imported from countries which we have "Normal Trade Relations" (NTR) with (used to be called "Most Favored Nation"). I don't think there are any European countries that don't have NTR status. It's nice that they changed their terminology. "Most Favored Nation" sounded pretty silly when most countries had it. -- Frank Filz ----------------------------- Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please) Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com

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		Re: US Customs Duties on Lego Shipments from Europe?
(...) That's interesting, because many European countries charge duties on them when I ship them away to people--even quantities as small as DM100 (which should tell you which country it is, ja?). Hmmm...maybe it's time to call Commerce... best (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory)

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		Re: US Customs Duties on Lego Shipments from Europe?
Lego is a duty free item in whatever quantity. If they try to collect customs or duties, fight it. You'll do better if you dig up the reference, posted here on LUGNET at some time in the past, to the US customs web site which clearly shows that Lego (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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