I have a package I need to send to Doha, Qatar. It's about 2lbs, value ~$100 and FedEx said it would cost ~$86 to send to Qatar plus taxes and duty. Problem is she couldn't tell me how much taxes and duty would be. Anyone here have any idea what taxes and duty would be and how it's figured?

 

What do you plan on shipping?
I hope this helps...
Excerpt:
Q. Can you give me a general idea about the import tarrif system in Qatar?

A. In accordance with the GCC Customs Union, outlined in Law No. 41/2002 and implemented as the GCC Unified Customs Law on January 1, 2003, Qatar imposes a five percent ad valorem tariff on the c.i.f. invoice value of most imported products, including food products. The GCC has approved exemptions for approximately four hundred goods, (including basic food products such as live animals, fresh fruit and vegetables, seafood, wheat, flour, rice, feed grains, spices, seeds for planting and powdered milk), diplomatic and consular imports, military and security products, civilian aviation, personal effects and used household items, passenger accompanied luggage and gifts, goods destined for charitable use, ships and other vessels for the transport of passengers and floating platforms, and products to be used for industrial projects. Qatar also has a 20 percent tariff on iron bars and rods, non-alloy hot-rolled steel and 12 millimeter steel bars as well as cement. 30 percent customs duties are levied on imports of urea and 15 percent are levied on imports of records and musical instruments. Pork and pork products are illegal under Qatari law. Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages are subject to 100 percent import duty. Projects funded by the Qatar Industrial Development Bank (QIDB) can be granted a customs duty waiver for the import of machinery, raw materials, and other industrial inputs.

Source: http://www.buyusa.gov/qatar/en/101.html
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Excerpt: As a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Qatar applies the GCC common external tariff of 5
percent for most products, with a limited number of GCC approved country-specific exceptions. Qatar

 

Thanks for the info. I forgot to say in my first post that it;s broadcast video tapes.

 

I would check their censorship requirements.
I would avoid tapes that involve Middle eastern politics (especially GCC related) or anything that they might consider graphically offensive...

 

I shipped to qatar before. As with any international customer, we set the customs/duties collect. Have them set the reciever as the responsible person for those.

J