virtually all countries have import duties on some goods. Also, most have some form of sales tax, VAT or something like that

Of course that all countries have import duties, but most of them do not categorise products for different tax bands (unless it is a military equipment ). I've been importing all sorts of things for my personal use from USA, and all I've paid here in UK is a VAT on that.

I was just asking people to stop pestering guys@empeg to risk their company by making it part of 'official' functionality.

I do agree to this 100%.

BTW, what's your regular work?

Regular work is working as an independent software consultant. It is mainly object oriented analysis and design, with VA Smalltalk as an implementation language, Although, I've been working on VA Java for the last 10 months. Java sucks, but it seems to be a flavour of the year in UK. The problem is that I haven't touched Unix for about six years, and now I'll try to make it up with Linux...

PS
Next time you are in UK, give me a call, so we can go for a beer (more than one)...


Darko Dojin
mk2, 12Gb, amber&green, s/n 080000317