From: "John Michael C. Bitanga" <jmc8@uplug.org>
Hi all,
Our Ubuntu CDs have arrived in our country but our team doesn't have it yet. The courier DHL is holding on to the package and wants to impose an import duty tax of 3500 Philippine pesos (~78 USD) on the 130 Ubuntu CDs. I've explained to their representative about other teams from around the wrold receiving the same package with no such import duties as those items are for educational/promotional as such it has no commercial value and will not be sold to anyone here. However, she insisted that since our team is based on a University, we should get a letter from the University to resolve this issue of these items being for educational and promotional purposes only.
Another workaround, she mentioned is to cite similar shipments by DHL that didn't ask for import duty. So if you're one of those teams, could you please provide us here the tracking numbers for your Ubuntu CDs' package?
It passed the same thing in Argentina. For example, in Buenos Aires, DHL Air Waybill: 6222972582. He entered like Gift, CD - Books, with declared value of 11 Eurus in origin. With tax +5 times the value declared in origin. Before numerous questions to DHL (1), it was consulted to origin. Non ddp and it Returns to origin. (*) Of having entered as educational material he would not pay, in theory. -- Regards, Peter.
The same passed in Guatemala declared with 17.31 euros the matrial vaule here with 110 dollars is expesive please dont send for DHL On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Peter Eisinger < peter.eisinger@preguntaslinux.org> wrote:
From: "John Michael C. Bitanga" <jmc8@uplug.org>
Hi all,
Our Ubuntu CDs have arrived in our country but our team doesn't have it yet. The courier DHL is holding on to the package and wants to impose an import duty tax of 3500 Philippine pesos (~78 USD) on the 130 Ubuntu CDs. I've explained to their representative about other teams from around the wrold receiving the same package with no such import duties as those items are for educational/promotional as such it has no commercial value and will not be sold to anyone here. However, she insisted that since our team is based on a University, we should get a letter from the University to resolve this issue of these items being for educational and promotional purposes only.
Another workaround, she mentioned is to cite similar shipments by DHL that didn't ask for import duty. So if you're one of those teams, could you please provide us here the tracking numbers for your Ubuntu CDs' package?
It passed the same thing in Argentina. For example, in Buenos Aires, DHL Air Waybill: 6222972582. He entered like Gift, CD - Books, with declared value of 11 Eurus in origin. With tax +5 times the value declared in origin. Before numerous questions to DHL (1), it was consulted to origin. Non ddp and it Returns to origin.
(*) Of having entered as educational material he would not pay, in theory.
-- Regards, Peter.
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-- Jorge Higueros Executive Director && Transpersonal Therapeut GNU/Linux user #369545 Free Software Organization Guatemala (502) 23364840 Blogs fsoguatemala.wordpress.com jhigueros.wordpress.com Guatemala C.A.
Hi, the same problem in Peru, the CDs have been arrived, there is not import duties or taxes because the value is under $100 however DHL want to charge us S/. 105 (S/.2.95=$US1). They said it is for their services (shipping, handing, clearence, delivery)??? why if the sender has payed for that. --- El jue 21-ago-08, Jorge Higueros <jorge.higueros@gmail.com> escribió:
De: Jorge Higueros <jorge.higueros@gmail.com> Asunto: Re: [SFD-discuss] Ubuntu arrived A: "Open discussions about SFD" <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org> Fecha: jueves, 21 agosto, 2008, 8:05 pm The same passed in Guatemala declared with 17.31 euros the matrial vaule here with 110 dollars is expesive please dont send for DHL
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Peter Eisinger < peter.eisinger@preguntaslinux.org> wrote:
From: "John Michael C. Bitanga" <jmc8@uplug.org>
Hi all,
Our Ubuntu CDs have arrived in our country but our team doesn't have it yet. The courier DHL is holding on to the package and wants to impose an import duty tax of 3500 Philippine pesos (~78 USD) on the 130 Ubuntu CDs. I've explained to their representative about other teams from around the wrold receiving the same package with no such import duties as those items are for educational/promotional as such it has no commercial value and will not be sold to anyone here. However, she insisted that since our team is based on a University, we should get a letter from the University to resolve this issue of these items being for educational and promotional purposes only.
Another workaround, she mentioned is to cite similar shipments by DHL that didn't ask for import duty. So if you're one of those teams, could you please provide us here the tracking numbers for your Ubuntu CDs' package?
It passed the same thing in Argentina. For example, in Buenos Aires, DHL Air Waybill: 6222972582. He entered like Gift, CD - Books, with declared value of 11 Eurus in origin. With tax +5 times the value declared in origin. Before numerous questions to DHL (1), it was consulted to origin. Non ddp and it Returns to origin.
(*) Of having entered as educational material he would not pay, in theory.
-- Regards, Peter.
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-- Jorge Higueros Executive Director && Transpersonal Therapeut GNU/Linux user #369545 Free Software Organization Guatemala (502) 23364840 Blogs fsoguatemala.wordpress.com jhigueros.wordpress.com Guatemala C.A.
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HI, I received the Ubuntu CD's without any problems. On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Luis Gustavo Lira <dr_complexity@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi, the same problem in Peru, the CDs have been arrived, there is not import duties or taxes because the value is under $100 however DHL want to charge us S/. 105 (S/.2.95=$US1). They said it is for their services (shipping, handing, clearence, delivery)??? why if the sender has payed for that.
--- El jue 21-ago-08, Jorge Higueros <jorge.higueros@gmail.com> escribió:
De: Jorge Higueros <jorge.higueros@gmail.com> Asunto: Re: [SFD-discuss] Ubuntu arrived A: "Open discussions about SFD" <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org> Fecha: jueves, 21 agosto, 2008, 8:05 pm The same passed in Guatemala declared with 17.31 euros the matrial vaule here with 110 dollars is expesive please dont send for DHL
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Peter Eisinger < peter.eisinger@preguntaslinux.org> wrote:
From: "John Michael C. Bitanga" <jmc8@uplug.org>
Hi all,
Our Ubuntu CDs have arrived in our country but our team doesn't have it yet. The courier DHL is holding on to the package and wants to impose an import duty tax of 3500 Philippine pesos (~78 USD) on the 130 Ubuntu CDs. I've explained to their representative about other teams from around the wrold receiving the same package with no such import duties as those items are for educational/promotional as such it has no commercial value and will not be sold to anyone here. However, she insisted that since our team is based on a University, we should get a letter from the University to resolve this issue of these items being for educational and promotional purposes only.
Another workaround, she mentioned is to cite similar shipments by DHL that didn't ask for import duty. So if you're one of those teams, could you please provide us here the tracking numbers for your Ubuntu CDs' package?
It passed the same thing in Argentina. For example, in Buenos Aires, DHL Air Waybill: 6222972582. He entered like Gift, CD - Books, with declared value of 11 Eurus in origin. With tax +5 times the value declared in origin. Before numerous questions to DHL (1), it was consulted to origin. Non ddp and it Returns to origin.
(*) Of having entered as educational material he would not pay, in theory.
-- Regards, Peter.
_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
-- Jorge Higueros Executive Director && Transpersonal Therapeut GNU/Linux user #369545 Free Software Organization Guatemala (502) 23364840 Blogs fsoguatemala.wordpress.com jhigueros.wordpress.com Guatemala C.A.
_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! MTV Blog & Rock >¡Cuéntanos tu historia, inspira una canción y gánate un viaje a los Premios MTV! Participa aquí http://mtvla.yahoo.com/
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