Buy from Zara Spain.
Deliver it to the USA.

Start where Zara España is genuinely better, not just cheaper. The .es catalogue is the deepest in the world, drops land in Spain first, and euro sticker prices typically run about 20-30% under the US tags (those prices already include 21% Spanish VAT, and that VAT stays baked in when you forward to the US — forwarding doesn't reclaim it). The pieces worth forwarding are the ones Zara is actually known for: tailored blazers and trouser suits, slip and lace midi/maxi dresses, high-waist wide-leg denim, and linen and knit co-ord sets. Zara runs small and narrow — worst on fitted tailoring and dresses, truer on knitwear and relaxed cuts — so size up one for the fitted pieces and use EU sizing as your reference (EU38 is roughly US6/UK10). One real catch: a .es order can only be returned in Spain within 30 days, so cross-border returns are slow and costly. Treat these as near-final buys, get the size right the first time, and run a quick shipping quote before you check out so you know the landed cost up front.

One detail prevents most returns: Zara cuts narrow and runs small — usually one US size below the label, and up to two on fitted dresses, blazers and tailoring (knitwear and relaxed pieces run truer). For most US shoppers buying from Spain, size up one. This matters because a zara.com/es order ships only within Spain and can be returned only in Spain — there is no US store drop-off and no cheap cross-border refund — so treat each buy as close to final and get the size right the first time. Zara uses EU sizing as its primary scale, so match the EU column below rather than the US number on the tag of your usual brand. Shoes also use EU sizing (EU 37 ≈ US 6.5 / UK 4). When in doubt, open the product's own size guide; our team can sanity-check a fit before you order to the Spanish forwarding address you claim free at registration — and you can price the parcel home anytime with the shipping calculator on this page.

When you buy from Zara Spain and ship to the USA, your forwarding cost tracks weight, so a quick read on how Zara pieces add up is the fastest way to predict your bill. A typical 2–4 item order lands around 0.5–2.5 kg: a couple of slip dresses and a pair of flat sandals sit at the light end, while a tailored blazer plus wide-leg jeans plus boots climbs fast. Couriers bill the higher of actual weight versus volumetric (dimensional) weight, so the item that surprises people is a winter coat — about 1.5 kg on the scale but 3.5–4 kg by volume, even though its EUR sticker (often around 80) looks like a bargain next to US pricing. Flat, dense pieces like denim bill close to their real weight; bulky, fluffy or boxed items are where volumetric weight bites.

Zara gives you 30 days to return, but only in the market where you bought it — and a zara.com/es order belongs to Spain. You can't return it in a U.S. Zara store, and you can't mail it across the Atlantic for a refund. From the States, a return means shipping the item back to Spain on your own dime and time, which is slow and costly, so treat every Zara Spain purchase as effectively final. That makes one thing matter more than anything else when you buy Zara Spain and ship to the USA: getting the fit right the first time. Zara cuts small and narrow — usually 1–2 US sizes tight on fitted dresses, blazers and tailored trousers, while knitwear and relaxed styles run closer to true — so most shoppers should size up one. As a quick anchor, EU 38 ≈ US 6 / UK 10 and EU 40 ≈ US 8 / UK 12; shoes use EU sizing (EU 37 ≈ US 6.5 women). Check our EU-to-US size guide, lock in the right size, then claim your free Spanish forwarding address and order with confidence.