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Re: [FRC Blog] International Teams -- Game Piece Option

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Originally Posted by Karthik View Post
It's very dramatic. The shipping cost isn't that bad, but the additional brokerage and duties that are collected after the fact, and often not included in the cost of shipping. Our team has been burned repeatedly with exorbinant bills for shipping things across the border (we got a bill from McMaster this summer for thousands of dollars duties/taxes for the past few years of purchases), so anything we can do to avoid being on the hook for import charges is something we'll take advantage of.
Oh, that's not a very good thing for low budget teams... Thank you guys for your feedback!
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