Yes, you’re looking at ~92% tax right there. Final price jumped from ~113 dollars (584BRL) to ~220 dollars.
EDIT: A bit of clarification, when buying from abroad there’s a flat 60% federal tax if the thing + shipping price surpasses 50 dollars. Then there’s a state tax that can vary between 17-25%, which goes on top of the total taxed value. Part of the tax is literally “tax of a tax”
Doesn’t work in Brazil. Gifts cannot be sent from a business to a person, and even then there’s a 50 USD limit.
You tell him to send it as a person 🤷.
What I’ve found out over the years is that Chinese will agree to almost anything to make a sale 😂.
And you can always claim engineering samples if it’s a gift from a company 😉.
i’m afraid they make no such exceptions here.
and its being taxed directly at the platform, so no chance of asking them to claim a lower price like we used to do before. we have to find another way.
Tell them to write it off as engineering samples 🤷. That’s the only thing that comes to mind…
Maybe if you write what tax deductions you have on import, I might have better ideas 😉.