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c/customs·posted 8 days ago by u/oskar_kaufmann

[Question] declared value — does under-declaring help or hurt

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Asking 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 shipment is domestic and there is no import event at all. That is the structural fix rather than a workaround.

Ordered from the warehouse in Canada and the whole import question disappeared. 9 days, domestic, no notice, nothing to manage.

Got a request for information and treated it as a seizure for two days before actually reading it. It was neither dramatic nor difficult.

Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.

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u/cold_chromatogram3144 points·8 days ago

Nothing on this board is legal advice. Where a notice carries a deadline or a consequence, that is a matter for somebody qualified in your own jurisdiction.

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u/ines_lindqvist25 points·7 days ago

Right, and clearance time is not carrier time. Blaming the shipper for a customs queue is a category error.

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[deleted]18 points·7 days ago

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u/oskar_kaufmannOP14 points·7 days ago

That delay was at clearance, not with the carrier. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.

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u/milos_mensa26 points·7 days ago

Kept every document including the dull ones. When a process started, having the dates in order made it short.

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u/chidi_abubakar9 points·7 days ago

Kept every document including the dull ones.

milos_mensa is right that regional stock is the structural answer rather than a trick.

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u/ghrp_history7 points·7 days ago

the rules differ between neighbouring countries and change by year

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u/chidi_abubakar5 points·6 days ago

personal import rules are not the same as commercial import rules

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u/gentle_correctionnice about it13 points·6 days ago·edited

What documentation accompanied the shipment?

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u/lane_watcherMOD17 points·7 days ago·edited

Pointing this one at somebody qualified locally. Nothing on this board is legal advice.

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u/hedda_adeyemi17 points·7 days ago

I would not read a single clearance experience as a rule. Sample size one, and customs is not deterministic.

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u/honest_syringe1910 points·7 days ago

most delays are administrative rather than substantive

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