Hi,

I have been working in a cell phone company for a year. Basically, our company import products from china (cell phones) and sale to the companies. But they are (phones) gone to china from u.s. in order to repair to motherboards and unlocking of the phones. It means, the phones are not real brand new. We can consider them as a refurbished phones anyway, I want to sale these phones to the companies by myself. And I'm planning to sale these phones to the local stores (I mean sale to the small stores not to the t-mobile stores or at&t stores of course :) )

My questions are

1 Should I pay tax for each phone? (if I have to , how? )
2 Is it legal to sale unlocked phones (if you consider them as refurbished phones)?
3 My status is international student in U.S. (I have a f-1 visa)is it can be getting a risk for me? (cause I don't have permit from government to work in U.S.)///but on the other hand I'm not going to be employee or something...

Thanks for answers

Have a good day to everybody

1. Yes you have to pay import taxes one time for each phone, if these are phones that are already in the US and you export them to China for repairs you do NOT have to pay import tax a second time when they come back, keep all your proofs of export.

2. It don't think it's illegal to sell unlocked phones, I don't know though, I'm not expert in that field (retail laws I guess)

3. You cannot work on an F-1 visa so if you get caught selling these phones you will possibly lose your visa, it doesn't matter that you don't work for a specific company it's still "working"