How do customs know the price of your item?

Chucky the tree

Hello. Just question probaly, and it probaly should be in another section but i cant find a suitable one.


How do customs know the price of your goods? was going to order a top from yanksville and was wondering about taxes etc, checked the revenue site and it a % of the price obviously, but how do they know how much you paid for it? Is it written on the outside of the package?

Creamy Goodness

before the item can be posted, the USPS/or any courier requests that the sender states the price of the contents on the outside of the package.

Chucky the tree

ah good man cremo, cheers.


Mods you can delete this thread now if yous want.

Bateman

If you are serious about buying clobber off American sites, bet a PO Box. And no, you can't have mine I got rid of it a few years back before I ran out of space for clothes. :mad:

Bluetonic

Chucky the tree wrote:

Is it written on the outside of the package?

Not so much wirtten on the outside of the package but contained on the commercial invoice, which must be supplied to the importing customs, not necessarily with the package.

http://www.fedex.com/ag/tools/invoice.html

cormie

Bateman wrote:

If you are serious about buying clobber off American sites, bet a PO Box. And no, you can't have mine I got rid of it a few years back before I ran out of space for clothes. :mad:

What will this do?

Chucky the tree

Bluetonic wrote:

Not so much wirtten on the outside of the package but contained on the commercial invoice, which must be supplied to the importing customs, not necessarily with the package.

http://www.fedex.com/ag/tools/invoice.html

Is it just the price of the items you bought put on the invoice? Or do they put the price of shipping aswell?

dar83

Should be the contents of the package thats on the invoice.