Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Question re: customs duty
From: "Bill Christensen" <billc@xsite.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 16:14:56 -0600

Don,

The fingers missed the decimal point.  It should read 5.6% or 5.8%.

Incidentally, the 19mm optics is amazing!

Merry Christmas to all.

Bill Christensen
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <DonjR43198@aol.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Question re: customs duty


> In a message dated 12/24/99 2:56:29 PM Central Standard Time,
billc@xsite.net
> writes:
>
> << I recently brought a new 19mm R lens into the U.S. from Japan.  For the
>  amount above $1,400, the duty was 5.6% or 58%. >>
> 58%?
>