Quote from: mattaero on October 03, 2018, 07:03:55 PM

Uhm, good ole USA, they were just hiked another 10% on Sept 24th up to 35% from 25%, the only reason you didn't get hit with tariffs is if the company you purchased the miner from lied about what you paid for it, which is illegal, but the risk is on them, not you, so just consider yourself lucky that they were willing to lie about it lol.

Any invoice over $1000 is flagged by customs and subject to import tax.

Friend of mine ordered 2 Z9 Minis on the same ticket, was just over $1200 , ended up paying $366 in duty fees, fees on a Dayun are ~$1500 if they catch it.

Under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (2018 HTSA Revision 12), Items with the heading: 8471.41.01 which are Automatic Processing Units: Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combined are free from tarrifs, but it is 35% if they come from certain countries countries... which China is not listed on.

Maybe I was supposed to, but neither side actively tried to circumvent anything.
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I was going to use the same argument in my case, but it's already been to court. The ruling stated that because ASICS cannot be programmed by the end user they do not qualify as automatic data processors and are subject to the tax. This even applies to the Baikal units that can run multi algo.

When I ordered my Z1 they only invoiced me for $150, so no tax....