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c/customs·submitted 25 days ago by u/arto_fonseca

[Question] how do you actually verify personal import

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how do you actually verify personal import. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months. 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…

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u/fabio_kuipers10 points·24 days ago

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

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u/lane_watcherMOD6 points·24 days ago·edited

Pointing this one at somebody qualified locally. Nothing on this board is legal advice.

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u/kaia_fonseca-24 points·24 days ago

regional stock removes the question entirely

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u/arto_fonsecaOP1 point·24 days ago

How long has it been sitting, and at which stage?

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u/santiago_marchetti1 point·23 days ago

a hold is not a seizure and people conflate them constantly

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u/oskar_kaufmann15 points·24 days ago

research-use-only labelling is not a customs category

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u/sena_ferreira3 points·24 days ago

the answer for the UK does not apply anywhere else

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u/alcohol_swab_annie2 points·24 days ago

What documentation accompanied the shipment?

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u/yannick_petrov1 point·23 days ago

Same view — the rules where I am changed between one year and the next and nobody announced it.

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