Import/customs fees for clothing?

[julia_en_ruta]

Does anyone have a sense of what import duties are for clothing? I've heard that they're higher than for other items (no idea if that's true) and I'm trying to do a little comparison shopping of my options for bringing something in from the US (i.e. using a service like Grabr vs sending it to myself directly).

 

[Johngwyn]

Back in May my friend sent me a small box of cloths, three pairs of shirt, one pair pants, and a pair of Nike sneakers via Fedex, and I paid upfront importation tax of 150,000 pesos, roughly at the time around 140 USD or so. Just buy cloth here, or maybe shopping in elsewhere when vacationing.

 

[Caribbean Cool]

When I compare Grbr (I have used many times) and the New Amazon protocols.I find Grbr for items that cannot be shipped with Amazon (lots of name brand clothes). But Grbr can get expensive for many SINGLE items.some times a little crazy. I prefer Amazon. And once I payed a small Uber fortune to retrieve the purchase here with Grbr. Grabr can be faster.much faster than Amazon. The aduana stories here on this site are all I need to know to avoid it.period.

 

[lunar]

Does anyone have a sense of what import duties are for clothing?

I'm under the impression that now you can bring in up to 3000 USD worth of goods per year for personal use without any duties, no?

 

[julia_en_ruta]

I'm under the impression that now you can bring in up to 3000 USD worth of goods per year for personal use without any duties, no?

I thought so as well, but I've heard stories about people having to pay extra -- sometimes a lot extra -- because they were specifically buying clothing or were sent clothing as a gift. I didn't ask those people details on when those things happened to try to correlate anything with changing laws, so I figured I'd ask here.

 

[Johngwyn]

I'm under the impression that now you can bring in up to 3000 USD worth of goods per year for personal use without any duties, no?

That 3000USD scheme is misinterpreted, my package was valued around $100 dollar and I paid more taxes than the worth of goods.
I believe that 3000USD cap is to facilitate something about 'easy processing scheme', with lelss bureaucracy when paying taxes, but not taxe free.

 

[FrankPintor]

@Quilombo laid it all out for us in https://baexpats.org/threads/amazon-is-coming-to-town.48078/post-455614

(Other limits apply if you're muling stuff in yourself, as I have done, it works exactly as described in https://www.afip.gob.ar/viajeros/ayuda/franquicia.asp).

There's information for the "puerta a puerta" and for the courier modes on the ARCA website, it's fairly well explained.

 

[julia_en_ruta]

@Quilombo laid it all out for us in https://baexpats.org/threads/amazon-is-coming-to-town.48078/post-455614

(Other limits apply if you're muling stuff in yourself, as I have done, it works exactly as described in https://www.afip.gob.ar/viajeros/ayuda/franquicia.asp).

There's information for the "puerta a puerta" and for the courier modes on the ARCA website, it's fairly well explained.

Thanks! I didn't see this post and it's a good break-down.