Duty I paid on my oversea SubC purchase

[Robbie68]

Bought a Sub date in London, May this year paid just under $7k. When I got back into the U.S. I declared the watch and went to customs to pay. I gave them the receipt that was in GBP and they calculated the dollar amount however...... they assumed the receipt was in Euros so the dollar amount came out a lot lower at around $5400. I told them that was too low they had made a mistake and we then realized they used Euros. On recalculating it came up with the correct amount of just under $7k. The customs guy turns to me and says "oh well, let's pretend it's Euros and also let's round it down to $5k !!!!!!!! Tax paid $112.