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c/customs·posted 1 months ago by u/vito_chowdhury

[Discussion] we are measuring jurisdiction at the wrong time and calling it noise

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Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: we are measuring jurisdiction at the wrong time and calling it noise.

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.

Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.

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u/declared_value_dvMOD9 points·1 months ago

Address redacted from the screenshot above. Post the wording of the notice, never the header.

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u/blunt_coldbox6 points·1 months ago

personal import rules are not the same as commercial import rules

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u/rekha_mbeki6 points·1 months ago

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.

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u/vito_chowdhuryOP0 points·1 months ago

Is this a hold, a request for information, or a seizure notice?

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u/cesar_ivaturi1 point·1 months ago·edited

That delay was at clearance, not with the carrier. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.

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u/vito_chowdhuryOP1 point·1 months ago

Shipped from regional stock or from origin?

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u/vito_chowdhuryOP1 point·1 months ago

if it matters, ask somebody qualified in your own jurisdiction

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u/arto_fonseca4 points·1 months ago

research-use-only labelling is not a customs category

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u/rohan_steiner2 points·1 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/tb500_tangent1 point·1 months ago

This. Ordering from regional stock takes the entire question off the table, which is why it comes up in every one of these threads.

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u/milos_mensa1 point·1 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/elin_tamm1 point·1 months ago

the answer for the UK does not apply anywhere else

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u/border_paperwork1 point·1 months ago

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

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