cost of shipping from the US

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Go to http://www.usps.com that is the web site for the United States Postal Service. You can check the cost on international shipping for any weight, to any destination, by any service type. "Parcel Post" is the cheapest and slowest ground shipping choice. Global Priority Mail is sometimes not a lot more expensive but a lot faster. You'll see all the options listed.

If you use the mail, there is usually no customs brokerage charge or delay. If you ship via UPS (United Parcel) or Fedex (Federal Express) those are the main private services in the US (DHL only recently has come back into our market) you will often have to pay a private customs brokerage service fee in your country as well.

And then of course there are import duties, you'll need to research those. Be creative about categories for imports, sometimes the same goods can come in duty-free, or highly tariffed, just depending on how you class them. Expect that some vendors will charge you an extra fee if you want them to handle customs and export forms for small orders.