"Andrew Walls" wrote in message
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I am considering buying something from the US costing USD 80 (circa GBP
45).
Will I have to pay import duty on this when it arrives in the UK by post?

Andrew Walls

Lots of US sellers will put down $20 as the item value on the package -
customs only check a very small percentage of packages so odds are you won't
have to pay anything. People buy iPods, PDAs etc all the time and they are
shipped with $20 declared value and mostly get through fine.

- Simon.