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c/customs·posted 3 months ago by u/milos_vestergaard

reading seizure threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly

PSA

reading seizure threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board.

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.

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.

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.

If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.

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u/hamza_weiss37 points·3 months 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/yannick_petrov10 points·3 months ago

personal import rules are not the same as commercial import rules

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u/border_paperwork4 points·3 months ago

research-use-only labelling is not a customs category

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u/milos_vestergaardOP2 points·3 months ago

Have you asked the supplier what they declare?

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u/nadia_trevino30 points·3 months 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/santiago_marchetti9 points·3 months ago

Shipped from regional stock or from origin?

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u/milos_vestergaardOP5 points·3 months ago·edited

if it matters, ask somebody qualified in your own jurisdiction

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u/ferran_krastev7 points·3 months ago

declared value and description are the shipper’s decisions, ask what they use

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u/emil_wojcik4 points·3 months ago

ask the supplier what documentation accompanies the shipment

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics3 points·3 months ago

ask the supplier what documentation accompanies the shipment

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

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u/stubborn_batchlist_pls1 point·3 months ago

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

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u/dhl_or_bust20 points·3 months ago

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

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u/hedda_adeyemi11 points·3 months ago

Disagree — that is the position in one country and this thread is about another. They are genuinely different.

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u/sena_ferreira8 points·3 months ago

Disagree — that is the position in one country and this thread is about another.

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

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