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karim
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Do you pay customs if you buy books from Amazon.
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Assalamu alaykum karim!

As far as I know, there is no customs on books coming into Egypt...I've never had to pay anything on them. However, when I wanted to order some books from Amazon, they said that they couldn't deliver certain ones to Egypt...not sure why as they were academic books, and not risque ones at that [Smile]
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newcomer,

were any of them labeled "How to Enrich Uranium"?

just kidding ... [Wink]
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Sorry, Masrawi, nothing as exiting as that [Wink]

But then again, maybe it was the "How to Knock Off a President in Five Easy Lessons" that did it [Wink]
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Hi Karim. I believe that books are one of the very few things you can buy internationally and not pay taxes on, regardless of country(I think).

A friend of mine buys lots of books from japan and is never charged customs. I assume it would be the same for Egypt.
CDs and DVDs, though, are different [Frown]
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I made an order from amazon and it came in 3 packages. All books, no CDs or DVDs.
The first was delivered to my house with no charges at all.
The second was deliverd to my house and i had to pay some charges. About 80 pounds.
The third package wasn't delivered to my house but I had to collect it at the post office and pay charges! About 50 Pounds.

So, in short, there is no system.
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Egyptian Mafia
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ha...its egypt...what do you expect...there is no system and there is no fixed answer...

in canada though...it is a hit and miss when buying stuff online be it ebay or amazon!
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I bought a set of books and paid no customs but then a few months later i ordered again and one book got completely lost and the other I had to pay 70LE

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