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c/customs·posted 2 months ago by u/greta_lokken

[Question] Canada — has anyone got a straight answer on seizure

Question Long Haul ×6

Trying to get a straight answer on this: Canada — has anyone got a straight answer on seizure.

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

Clearance took four days and the carrier took eleven. I had been blaming entirely the wrong stage for a year.

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

Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.

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u/rosa_almeida-23 points·2 months ago

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.

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u/cold_chromatogram311 point·2 months ago

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

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u/clara_restrepo36 points·2 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/lane_watcherMOD18 points·2 months ago

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

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u/stubborn_batchlist_pls6 points·2 months ago

regional stock removes the question entirely

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u/aurel_mwangi5 points·2 months ago

nothing in this board is legal advice

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u/customs_seizure_sid30 points·2 months ago

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

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u/declared_value_dv24 points·2 months ago

do not post your own address details when asking

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u/vito_chowdhury13 points·2 months ago

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.

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u/hamza_weiss17 points·2 months ago

Total transit includes a clearance stage that is not under the carrier’s control. Separating clearance time from carrier time is the first step in diagnosing any delay.

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u/nadia_trevino5 points·2 months ago

Agreed on asking what documentation accompanies a shipment. Suppliers who ship regionally usually have a clear answer.

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u/ismael_varga11 points·2 months ago

Yes. Nothing here is legal advice and the good posts on this board say so themselves.

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u/peptidemeter_pat7 points·2 months ago·edited

Posted a question here with my address in the screenshot. A mod removed it within minutes, which I appreciated.

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