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c/customs·posted 1 year ago by u/nikhil_lindqvist

[Question] declared value — what am I missing here

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Genuine question, and the title is the question: declared value — what am I missing here.

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

Ordered from the warehouse in France and the whole import question disappeared. 3 days, domestic, no notice, nothing to manage.

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

Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.

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u/came_for_the_coa4 points·1 year ago

keep the paperwork, including the boring parts

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u/nikhil_lindqvistOP6 points·1 year ago

Asked the supplier what documentation travels with the shipment and got a straight answer. That was reassuring in itself.

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u/ghrp_history3 points·1 year ago

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

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u/santiago_marchetti1 point·1 year ago

Small fix — those rules apply to commercial import. Personal import is governed separately and more narrowly.

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u/nikhil_lindqvistOP2 points·1 year ago

Have you asked the supplier what they declare?

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u/lane_watcherMOD2 points·1 year ago

Country added to the title. Without it the answers will be confidently wrong.

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u/chidi_roos2 points·1 year 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/ignacio_vanhecke2 points·1 year ago·edited

Research-use-only labelling is a description of intended use, not a customs classification.

Adding the standing caveat — nothing here is legal advice and this one genuinely warrants somebody qualified.

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u/anya_salgado2 points·1 year ago

Asked somebody qualified locally rather than relying on this board. Best forty minutes I have spent on the topic.

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