I didn't want to ask them to mark it as a gift or sample, just in case it came back to them - I don't want to burn my bridges for future sales. Instead, I asked them to value it using the weight of the material, rather than Audi's inflated retail price. I suggested $250 would be about right.
Hopefully, that means that even if Customs does pick it up, the VAT and import duty should be negligible. Funnily enough, I was researching dutiable imports and car parts wasn't on the list at all. Thinking back to my days working at a courier company, I remember we used to ship thousands of Land Rover parts to and from Japan - maybe that was why!
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