Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:42 AM 8/21/98 -0400, you wrote: >Ben, > >The last time I checked earlier this year, the Customs duty in the US on >cameras is about 3% of the declared value of the package. Depends on the country of origin. From Canada it's free (now there's an argument for Canadian lenses being better!) and from Germany (country of origin as in manufacture, not who you bought it from) is 3%. So I had to pay $121 for my 70-180 2.8, even though I bought it from Canada. (Still a bargain). - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch .'Sounds like art,' the instructor says. 'Well, it is art,' I say. 'This divorce of art from technology is completely unnatural. It's just that it's gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out where the two separated...' " Robert M. Pi