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c/customs·posted 9 months ago by u/ewan_marchand

three years of declared value threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

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three years of declared value threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. I have gone back and forth on this for months.

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.

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, 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.

I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.

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u/cold_chromatogram31250 points·9 months ago

Why regional stock keeps coming up in every thread on this board.

If the line you want is held in a warehouse in your own country, your order is a domestic shipment. There is no import event, no clearance stage and no notice to manage. That is not a workaround; it is a different transaction.

So the useful pre-order question is which lines a supplier actually holds regionally rather than drop-ships from origin. It is one email, the answer is usually a list, and for anybody who has spent a fortnight watching a tracking page it reframes the whole problem.

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u/rohan_steiner119 points·9 months ago

That is a question for somebody qualified where you live, not for a ranked feed.

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u/formulary_fighterappeals42 points·9 months ago

That is a question for somebody qualified where you live, not for a ranked feed.

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

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u/dose_diary_danalog keeper92 points·9 months ago

nothing in this board is legal advice

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics261 points·9 months ago

a seizure notice is a document with a process attached, read it

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u/border_paperworkMOD156 points·9 months ago

Address redacted from the screenshot above. Post the wording of the notice, never the header.

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u/ferran_batista174 points·9 months ago

Ordered from the warehouse in the Netherlands and the whole import question disappeared. 11 days, domestic, no notice, nothing to manage.

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u/fabio_kuipers116 points·9 months ago

Careful — that guidance is several years old and the rules where you are have moved since.

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u/ines_lindqvist84 points·9 months ago

Careful — that guidance is several years old and the rules where you are have moved since.

Disagreeing with this line: that is the position in a different country and it does not transfer.

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u/chidi_abubakar56 points·9 months ago

Careful — that guidance is several years old and the rules where you are have moved since.

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

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