Third letter. Same jurisdiction, same declared-value bracket, same carrier all three times. Nothing further happened on any of them — a letter, a note that the item was…
Customs
c/customs · created 27 Mar 2024
Import rules by country. Read your own jurisdiction, not someone else's.
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Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: personal import rules, my country, with the actual citations. Where a supplier holds regional stock, the shipment is…
Thinking out loud about this: letter arrived, no prosecution, here is exactly what it said. The rules where I live changed between two orders six months apart. Nothing…
research-use documentation is not a magic word — with the reasoning, because a rule without a reason gets ignored. Why this board insists on a country in the title.…
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Reference standardsAsking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: declared value — does under-declaring help or hurt. Where a supplier holds regional stock, the…
Thinking out loud about this: third one in two years. the pattern is the carrier, not the country. Why this board insists on a country in the title. Import rules are…
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: every answer here is jurisdiction-specific and we keep forgetting. Asked the supplier what documentation travels with…
what changed in the import rules this year. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post. Posted a question here with my address in…
Question in the title, detail here: does anyone have a straight answer on transit vs destination liability. Nothing on this board is legal advice. Where a notice…
how do you actually verify personal import. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months. A hold, a request for information and a…
personal import is doing more work than we give it credit for. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. A hold, a request for information…
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: can we stop arguing about import until somebody posts a number. Why regional stock keeps coming up…
the seizure advice in here is 3 years out of date. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. 3 years — those are the numbers, and they are…
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: we are measuring jurisdiction at the wrong time and calling it noise. Asked the supplier what documentation travels…
the personal import thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Posted a question…
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Send the vial, get the number. Third-party purity and identity testing, results published to you regardless of what they say.
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glbiochem.netSlightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: someone explain import to me like I have not read a paper in years. Got a request for information and treated it as a…
seizure — what am I missing here. If this has been answered properly somewhere, link me and I will delete. Research-use-only labelling is a description of intended use,…
Trying to get a straight answer on this: Canada — has anyone got a straight answer on seizure. Asked the supplier what documentation travels with the shipment and got a…
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: help me understand declared value, I have read the wiki twice. Where a supplier holds regional…
the customs rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining, and here is what changes in practice if it goes ahead. Got a request for information and treated…
reading seizure threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board. Declared value and product description are chosen by…
Adding to the record: ERP order #20 — Germany, 4 days, no drama, receipts inside. It matches what the source page already shows, for whatever that is worth. To save the…
unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about import is guesswork. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. Research-use-only…
Something I keep coming back to: the declared value advice in here is 2 years out of date. To save the first four comments: 2 years. Why this board insists on a country…
does personal import actually matter or is it forum lore at this point. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source. The order to do things in…