It doesn't pay to follow the rules. Heitor and I recently made a purchase (not books) on Amazon and had the order shipped directly to us here in São Paulo because we were under the impression there is no import tax on values of less that US $50.
In this case, the cost of the product was $15.49 and shipping was $11.72. The total of $27.21 was calculated by Brazilian customs to be the equivalent of R$ 65.15 (using a better exchange rate than I get, I should point out).
On this purchase, we paid an import tax of R$63.41. The tax was calculated, either from stupidity in the customs office or because of the law, on both the cost of the product and the cost of the freight and came to virtually 100%., to state the obvious.
For a $15.49 product, we ended up paying $53.70.
On the bright side, it was just what we wanted...priceless
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