None in my limited experience. It was definitely a hit-or-miss type of thing.

>Hi Jim,
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>What shipping methods did not incur the 'customs clearing' charges?
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>Paul
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>>John,
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>>I don't know what the actual shipping fees would be to reach you.
>>But I too have faced (intermittently, with no discernible pattern) high fees BUT they had nothing to do with Hentzenwerkes. The fees I had to pay were related to "customs clearing" and "GST (tax) collection" and were imposed by the shipping company itself!
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>>Of course each time this happened I would contact Hentzenwerkes to ask them to use alternate shipping methods next time, and they always did accommodate. But I guess it just got to be too much for them to handle.