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c/customs·posted 21 days ago by u/britt_abubakar

[Question] does anyone have a straight answer on transit vs destination liability

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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 carries a deadline or a consequence, that is a matter for somebody qualified in your own jurisdiction.

Clearance took four days and the carrier took eleven. I had been blaming entirely the wrong stage for a year.

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

Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.

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u/TitrationTortoiseslow and boring63 points·20 days ago

Research-use-only labelling is a description of intended use, not a customs classification. It does not by itself determine how anything is treated at a border.

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u/lane_watcherMOD41 points·19 days ago

Left up. It names both countries and quotes the notice, which is exactly what makes these threads useful.

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u/peptidemeter_pat31 points·19 days ago

What documentation accompanied the shipment?

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u/enzo_ferrari34 points·19 days ago

nothing in this board is legal advice

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u/honest_syringe1934 points·19 days ago

Total transit includes a clearance stage that is not under the carrier’s control. Separating clearance time from carrier time is the first step in diagnosing any delay.

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u/ignacio_vanhecke21 points·19 days ago

Import rules are national and they distinguish between personal and commercial import, with different thresholds, documentation and consequences. A general answer is almost always wrong somewhere.

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[deleted]8 points·19 days ago

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u/naomi_antonsen19 points·19 days ago

Is there a deadline on the notice?

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u/fridge_door_no13 points·19 days ago

Is there a deadline on the notice?

This is why every thread here has to start with a country.

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u/gentle_correctionnice about it4 points·18 days ago

most delays are administrative rather than substantive

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