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c/customs·posted 1 year ago by u/cold_chromatogram31

jurisdiction — 19 things I got wrong before I got it right

Question Cold Box ×9 Well Actually ×1

Something I keep coming back to: jurisdiction — 19 things I got wrong before I got it right.

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

The rules where I live changed between two orders six months apart. Nothing was announced; I found out by reading.

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

Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.

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u/insulin_syringe_ian327 points·1 year 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/customs_seizure_sidMOD172 points·1 year ago

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

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u/cold_chromatogram31OP100 points·1 year ago·edited

Left up.

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

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u/cold_chromatogram31OP-29 points·1 year ago

What does the notice actually say, in its own words?

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u/clara_restrepo94 points·1 year ago

Correction: that is a request for information, not a seizure notice. Different document, different process, different deadline.

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u/customs_seizure_sid106 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/britt_abubakar176 points·1 year ago

Ordered from the warehouse in Denmark and the whole import question disappeared. 5 days, domestic, no notice, nothing to manage.

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