Maybe you mean NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement ? It's only
for trade within North America (eg Canada, US, Mexico) !
Of course, IMO, it has so far only succeeded in creating Ross Perot's
"giant sucking sound" <g>
If you are interested, the entire text is available at
gopher://wiretap.spies.com/11/Gov/NAFTA
It's rather amazing reading, if only to see what level of detail things are
spelled out at. (Some 10,000 categories of goods listed, most with many
subcategories.)
Randall
On Thursday, April 15, 1999 5:16 AM, Philip Smith
[SMTP:smith007@mindspring.com] wrote:
>
> I too just got my Customs Bill from UPS, $ 10 plus, on my recent Moto
Lita
> Steering wheel bought from Europa in England. What ever happened to "
NAFDA"
> ? Maybe NAFDA was just for making it easier to smuggle drugs into the
> Country?
> Phil Smith
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. John Lye <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 7:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Customs duty
>
>
> >
> >Jim Hill wrote:
> >
> >>I've also had the experience of getting a delayed bill from UPS for
> customs
> >>charges they claim to have paid. Sometimes I get such a bill and
sometimes
> I
> >>don't. Makes me wonder . . .
> >
> >That's been my experience too; I've bought lots of stuff from England
> >over the years and I seem to get charged duty about half the time. It
> >seems to be completely random as to whether I get charged the duty or
> >not. Once though, several of us pooled orders and ended up with quite
> >a large order and found out that if the order is big enough that it
> >has to go through a customs broker before the shipment will be released.
> >That got *expensive* really fast; unfortunately, I don't remember the
> >details of that transaction.
> >
> >John Lye
> >
> >'59 TR-3A, '62 TR-4, '70 GT-6+
> >email: rjl6n@virginia.edu
> >homepage: http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
>
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