personal import — 8 things I got wrong before I got it right
personal import — 8 things I got wrong before I got it right. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
Clearance took four days and the carrier took eleven. I had been blaming entirely the wrong stage for a year.
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.
Ordered from the warehouse in Canada and the whole import question disappeared. 11 days, domestic, no notice, nothing to manage.
That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Declared value and product description are chosen by the shipper. Asking what they use is a legitimate pre-order question and the answer tells you how routine this is for them.
a seizure notice is a document with a process attached, read it
Kept every document including the dull ones. When a process started, having the dates in order made it short.
research-use-only labelling is not a customs category
nothing in this board is legal advice
keep the paperwork, including the boring parts
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.
A hold, a request for information and a seizure are distinct administrative events. Each has its own process and deadlines, and the notice itself states which one you have.
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.
if it matters, ask somebody qualified in your own jurisdiction
do not post your own address details when asking
Yes. Nothing here is legal advice and the good posts on this board say so themselves.
Agreed. Jurisdiction is the whole answer here and threads that skip it produce confidently wrong advice.
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.
a hold is not a seizure and people conflate them constantly
Have you asked the supplier what they declare?
personal import rules are not the same as commercial import rules
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.
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