I'm refering to back about a year ago when empeg, ltd. was its own company before being sold to SonicBlue. At that time, they were sold directly to customers from the UK.

Sonicblue did transfer a bunch to the US (or have them shipped directly from the factory as they were Mk IIa's) but I don't think they'd have to pay duty to transfer stock. (I could be mistaken though).