Jackets with Wind/waterproof Front Panels - available in the UK?

[hebe]

From my experience, duty is far more likely on goods coming from the US/Canada than from Australia/New Zealand. The charges are nasty though, I think it's anything with a value of over 18gbp or so is charged an 8gbp handling fee then 20% of the whole value. If you don't pay you don't get your purchase delivered.

edited to add, Kiwi Stoker and Crazy Canuck are absolutely right - below is from the hmrc site. I don't know if this results in 20% higher prices for Brits, but it's worth a look. eta, gosh, looks like they pay the vat & duty out of their margins. How generous!

3.4 Prepayment of import VAT on goods purchased over the Internet

"UK Customs has special arrangements that allow some overseas traders to charge, collect and pay over to us the import VAT for goods purchased on the Internet that would normally be chargeable at the time the goods are imported. These arrangements operate under Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) signed with certain overseas customs and postal authorities. The countries that have an MoU with HMRC are: Channel Islands, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand. Overseas traders wanting to use this procedure must be authorised to do so by their authorities.

Once authorised, foreign businesses are issued with a unique authorisation number, which they must show on the customs declaration or packaging. Also they will include the statement 'Import VAT Prepaid'.

Where these arrangements are used you will not be charged a Royal Mail handling fee when you receive your package."