On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Sanjeev Gupta <gha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you claim a rocket launch as an Export Credit? "Yes, Officer, we > will report to the Customs Department if this equipment re-enters US > Territory. We will keep track of it, thank you. And believe me, I > will know _precisely_ when that happens." There is precedent for this in the US. I know a case where we paid import duty on an expensive part and then applied for refund and were granted the refund of duty after launch because the part was re-exported. I forget the exact technicalities but the US customs people treated the item as being imported only for re-shipment outside the US. Here is another also from US Customs (My all time favorite bit of bureaucracy) http://i.space.com/images/i/4460/i02/Apollo-11-Immigration-02.jpg Another well known case was the optical window used on a Pioneer Venus spacecraft. It was cut from a rather large diamond imported from Europe. As above import duty was refunded. This made the news because of the huge cost of the 3/4 inch diameter diamond they sliced the window from. -- ===== Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.