[quote="Hamish"][Yes, the cost of importing finished kilts, and presumably lengths of fabric, into the UK from the USA - that's the Duties, VAT, clearance, documentation and handling charges, and the shipping - can mean that 33% of the value of the goods has to be paid before the goods are delivered. I have been charged in that way several times when having my Utilikilts sent over. On the leather one, I had to pay something over £146 before the shipping agents would part with it!!

It just seems pointless for those of us in the UK to have to pay the American equivalent of those charges AND be charged again when the kilt or fabric is sent back to within 400 miles of the weaving mill!

Take care,
Ham.
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Hamish,

You might want to check with Customs or Inland Revenue, but I don't think you'd have to pay Customs Duty on yardage returned from the USA. You'd still get stuck with the customs duties charged by the States, but on return, it would be British goods returned to place of origin. In the US, there is, or at least there was, no import duty levied on American made goods returned to the US from a foreight country.

I hope you can get your material straight from the mill, but if not, I think you should be able to dodge the import duty if it has to be mailed back to you from the states. Of course if you have the yardage converted into a kilt on this side of the water, all bets are off.