# customs for tea \[question about costs\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 3, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customs-for-tea-question-about-costs/559349 "2010-11-03T17:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wingstech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7c8e57/32.png) [@wingstech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wingstech)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customs-for-tea-question-about-costs/559349/1 "2010-11-03T17:38:37Z")
Hi: I had ordered 30 kg of tea from China. The exporter decided to use sea mail to ship the package. When the package reach US customs, how much customs I need to pay? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customs-for-tea-question-about-costs/559349/2 "2010-11-03T20:58:27Z")
66 pounds is a lot of tea. Do you own your own tea shop? One would expect that you would have researched this before ordering the product. I don’t know the answer for sure, but it may be free. See [here](http://usitc.gov/publications/docs/tata/hts/bychapter/1000C09.pdf). ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customs-for-tea-question-about-costs/559349/3 "2010-11-03T22:12:43Z")
[moderating] I added a parenthetical to the thread title to make it clearer what it was about (it’s not about customary practices for serving tea). Remember: The clearer the thread title, the more likely you are to get good answers to the question. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customs-for-tea-question-about-costs/559349/4 "2010-11-03T22:55:37Z")
What does this have to do with the price of tea in… _never mind._