I am referring to the value Microsoft places on the paperwork.
What the local authorities do with that is not really relevant to my point.
The figure I have recently seen on two export documents is 38 cents per CD.
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>> Apparently, but the specifics here will be known when someone outside the
>> US actually receives the CD and posts the information on the form.
>
> Besides, customs agents in each country are pretty much free to assert any
> "value" they wish and charge taxes based on that. In general it's the
> same as government employees not being required either to obey laws or to
> acknowledge facts in any country, but actual results vary from country to
> country and from case to case.
>
> One time I was charged an inspection fee but no taxes. One time I was
> charged sales tax (at the tax rate of the country where the mail arrived
> not where it was sent from) but no other fees or taxes. One time a piece
> of mail contained a postal money order for the purpose of buying and
> subsequently mailing merchandise to the original person, and a customs
> agent decided to declare a value for the money order as a printed piece of
> paper, fortunately not the amount of money that the money order would turn
> into, but not zero either.
>
> So just finding one case where someone outside Japan receives one CD,
> that's not going to lead to any general useful information.
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