YES, out CD has arrived in airport and TNT charge 200 taka (<$3.00) per CD for customs duties. Totally they asked 17000.00 taka ($ 246.37) to release the CDs. What can we do now?

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On 8/20/2010 8:51 PM, A. Mani wrote:

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Mohammed Sanaulla
<sanaulla123@gmail.com> wrote:

You could convince them that Its Free Software and to be distributed for
FREE. Then they might not charge. They think its a Commercial Software/OS. I
had the same issue last year and they had got stuck in the Indian Post. I
collected it after explaining to the wat is Ubuntu, FOSS and other related
concepts.

yes, and also tell them that the custom duties valuation do not make sense.
Rs 850 would mean you ordered about 1500 CDs as per the value declared

In my case, I told them that it was to pass without any duty and it
did eventually.


Best

A. Mani