Question Scuba Gaskets order - duty payment required???

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To U.S. fellows, just recieved an email form SG, and it say at the end:

A note for all US friends and customers: Since 29th of August 2025 all parcels coming from EU to USA are subjected to custom clearance. Only available shipping option for US orders is via DHL (flat rate 31 euro make the most of it and order all you need).
 
Don't do it. He'll ahve to pay duty on it.
Gifts worth up to $100 do not require payment of duties.

To qualify, the shipping form has to show the contents and value, the purpose should be entered as "gift", It has to be from a private person to a private person (sender can't be a merchant), and the package should be marked with "unsolicited gift".

Enjoy your spontaneous gift giving.
 
Gifts worth up to $100 do not require payment of duties.

To qualify, the shipping form has to show the contents and value, the purpose should be entered as "gift", It has to be from a private person to a private person (sender can't be a merchant), and the package should be marked with "unsolicited gift".

Enjoy your spontaneous gift giving.

Sender, in this case, is not defined as the originator of the gift as a concept, but from who the gift is physically shipped from....you can't send someone a gift via a merchant (e.g., purchase something as a gift and have the merchant ship it directly to the recipient...even if the gift recipient is yourself or a member of your address) to score the duty free benefit.

-Z
 
Has anybody in the US ever ordered from Scuba Gaskets before?

I made an order a few days ago, they shipped it via DHL Express yesterday and gave me a tracking number.

I just received two identical texts from DHL reading: "Import duty payment required for delivery..... Returned in 5 days if not paid".

It doesn't look like a scam, cause it's on the original text string and with the same tracking number as what I received yesterday when it was shipped. Do I really need to pay the import tax a week after I placed the order??? Does anyone have first hand experience with this?

TYIA!
I bought a regulator out of Canada recently for about $130.00. Just received an invoice from UPS for $10 for taxes. Thank you Mr. President.
 
To U.S. fellows, just recieved an email form SG, and it say at the end:

A note for all US friends and customers: Since 29th of August 2025 all parcels coming from EU to USA are subjected to custom clearance. Only available shipping option for US orders is via DHL (flat rate 31 euro make the most of it and order all you need).
They currently have no choice except international courier. The national postal carriers manage international customs clearance via internal agreements under the framework of the Universal Postal Convention. Trump ordered the new tariffs without taking any of this into account. The result is that the postal carriers from most developed nations, including all of the members of the Association of European Postal Services have stopped accepting commercial packages to the US until the necessary agreements are put into place.
 

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