[Meta] proposal — a flair for seizure posts
proposal — a flair for seizure posts, and it will stay as it is unless somebody makes the case to change it. 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…
Why this board insists on a country in the title.
Import rules are national. Personal and commercial import are treated differently, thresholds and documentation vary, and the rules change — several members here have had the position change between two orders six months apart, with no announcement.
The result is that a confident answer from somebody in a different jurisdiction is not merely unhelpful, it is actively misleading, and it gets quoted back for years. Say where you are and where it shipped from. Everything useful in this board follows from those two facts, and nothing useful precedes them.
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Shipped from regional stock or from origin?
personal import rules are not the same as commercial import rules
Is there a deadline on the notice?
Is this a hold, a request for information, or a seizure notice?
Yes. Nothing here is legal advice and the good posts on this board say so themselves.