How are customs duties handled by the Fedex "Baggage Free" service?
Fedex offers a baggage free traveler's service. It purports to ship your belongings to your destination rather than taking them on your person.
This raises a question:
How are customs declarations and duties handled when the destination is in a different country?
Luggage you take across a border on your person seems to be considered to be "personal effects" by default and not subject to customs duties. In contrast, items shipped across a border via courier seem to be considered by default to be some sort of commercial item to which a customs duty applies. Which leads to the question:
How do you ship personal effects across a border so that they are not assessed customs duties?
Does Fedex treat "Baggage Free" shipments especially at the customs clearing stage of shipping? Or, is it up to the sender to make some special customs declarations in order to avoid customs fees?
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Does FedEx include duties?
Please note: As per the contract of carriage with FedEx, the shipper is ultimately liable for any duties and taxes assessed on the shipment.How is customs duty calculated?
To do this add up the value of the goods, freight costs, insurance and any additional costs, then multiply the total by the duty rate. The result is the amount of duty you'll need to pay customs for your shipment.Who pays the import duty?
In practice, import duty is levied when imported goods first enter the country. For example, in the United States, when a shipment of goods reaches the border, the owner, purchaser or a Customs broker (the importer of record) must file entry documents at the port of entry and pay the estimated duties to Customs.How do I avoid customs fees in Canada?
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