On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 10:15:55 +0100
Chris Green  wrote:

> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> > If we do a free trade deal with the USA then they cant charge duty, or
> > a charge to collect the duty, or VAT on the charge to collect the duty
> > canb they?
> >
> > Stuff comes in from china using the postal service and no one ever
> > charges duty on it.
> >
> That's not entirely true, I buy a lot of stuff from China (on both
> eBay and AliExpress).  Most of the time it's low value stuff (£5 or
> less) and that comes straight in without customs/VAT etc. but larger

 IIRC there's a minimum value to attract VAT, for quite a while
stuff came out of China with a correct description and a silly low value
and didn't get charged VAT then the customs people caught on.

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