How to buy an M10 cheap

[Huss]

This is a popular internet myth (check the tables): (1) different types of camera and lenses are treated differently. (2) different countries (for example Germany vs. UK vs. Japan vs. Korea and/or Canada) are treated differently, and (3) there is a threshold ($2k?) that the M10 certainly exceeds. I have paid customs on a lens coming from the UK, for instance.

A more detailed version of the above document is here:

https://www.usitc.gov/publications/docs/tata/hts/bychapter/1400htsa.pdf

(the acronyms in the tables are important)

Roland.

I didn't pay any customs on a limited edition Rolleiflex from a Leica shop in Holland, that was a lot more than $2000. And I didn't pay any customs on a Zeiss lens from Leicashop Austria which was a lot more than $2000.
They just shipped it to me, I didn't do anything to avoid paying customs.

 

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dutycalculator.com

 

[Huss]

dutycalculator.com

According to that site, to California from Leicashop Austria:


"Camera is duty free."

 

[kxl]

A more detailed version of the above document is here:

https://www.usitc.gov/publications/docs/tata/hts/bychapter/1400htsa.pdf

(the acronyms in the tables are important)

Roland.

You are referencing an outdated document (from 2014). The most current document (eff. 1/1/2017) can be found here:

https://www.usitc.gov/tata/hts/index.htm

See Chapter 85, specifically 8525.80.40.

 

[ChrisLivsey]

I would, pedantically, take issue, with tongue in cheek, to the thread title, in my mind this strategy does not make the M10 cheap, less expensive certainly, but cheap?