Is it legal for an American to mail a new computer to Norway or Sweden?

[ChaosLord]

I need to know:

1) Is it legal?

2) If it is legal is there a horrible tax/bribe that must be paid to customs?

Apparently new computers in the USA cost 1/4 what they cost in Scandinavia.  So I bought a puter for my friend but I dunno if it is safe to mail it to him. :-?

[ChaosLord]

Elektro wrote:
Why wouldnt it be legal?

Because loads of stuff is illegal in the tyrannical European Empire.

Anyway, if it was legal to go around shipping products to Europe then everything in Europe would be the same price as in USA.  But in fact everything costs LOTS more in Europe.

Your friend will have to pay import taxes plus VAT though.

AHA!!!  And how much is this "import tax"?

How much is the VAT on a new computer?

[ChaosLord]

amigakit wrote:
It is not illegal at all.

It is illegal until someone pays the tax/bribe/offering/levy/charge/sacrifice to the king.

If it was not illegal at all then it would be like the USA and there would be 0 tax on the computer.

However, Norwegian customs are very meticulous and take a while to process parcels.  Being a parcel from the USA, there will be a customs charged levied.

How much is the "customs charged levy"?

I mean are we talking $5.00 or $100.00 or $200.00 or

[ChaosLord]

Piru wrote:

In USA you can "cheat" by buying from another state (tax free) and end up paying no tax at all. There are some plans to.

That isn't cheating and it isn't a loophole.  The constitution was written that way on purpose.  And it has been upheld by the courts in every case for over 200 years.  And we all pay 0% tax.  For example I bought around $50,000 worth of brand new Amiga computers in my lifetime and paid 0% tax on it.  Why did I pay 0% tax?  Because it's the law.

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Piru wrote:

In fact I recently bought two 400GB Seagate HDDs from Denmark, 174,36 eur per drive.

I haven't priced 400GB drives.

All I know is I bought a new 80GB drive a couple of days ago for $5.00 at the local store.  My brother got one also.

2 weeks ago they had a 300GB Seagate drive for $90.00 at the same store.