In message <200406172024.i5HKOPl18969@d1o401.telia.com> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: > And "personal gifts" are (in most countries) free from any > fees at all... :-) If my understanding of EU import/export laws are correct, then when something is sent from one EU country to another (e.g. NL to UK), VAT is paid in the country of origin. I'm not sure what Customs and Excise would charge (in terms of Import Duty) on top of that, though. Incidentally, Customs decided to open my WISP628 upon entry into the UK. Would have been nice if they'd re-sealed it properly after they'd opened it though. One piece of Sellotape - the 5mm thick stuff, not the 10mm or 50mm stuff designed for parcels. Then again, I don't trust Royal Mail anyway, not since they managed to cause considerable damage to a laptop computer anyway. Six layers of bubble wrap plus another layer of crumpled newspaper and they STILL managed to break it. Not as bad as the tale of ParcelForce running a forklift truck into an expensive piece of testgear, then refusing to pay up, but it comes close. Later. -- Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB, philpem@dsl.pipex.com | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice, http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI ... DOS means never having to live hand-to-mouse -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body