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c/customs·posted 3 months ago by u/week_four_wall

help me understand declared value, I have read the wiki twice

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Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: help me understand declared value, I have read the wiki twice.

Where a supplier holds regional stock, the shipment is domestic and there is no import event at all. That is the structural fix rather than a workaround.

Ordered from the warehouse in Canada and the whole import question disappeared. 7 days, domestic, no notice, nothing to manage.

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

If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.

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u/naomi_antonsen60 points·3 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/lane_watcherMOD32 points·3 months ago

Country added to the title. Without it the answers will be confidently wrong.

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u/piotr_nascimento9 points·3 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/rosa_sandvik26 points·3 months ago

research-use-only labelling is not a customs category

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u/ignacio_vanhecke47 points·3 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/week_four_wallOP-25 points·3 months ago

Import rules are national and they distinguish between personal and commercial import, with different thresholds, documentation and consequences.

Disagreeing with this line: that is the position in a different country and it does not transfer.

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u/ferran_krastev46 points·3 months ago

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

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u/week_four_wallOP28 points·3 months ago

Small fix — those rules apply to commercial import. Personal import is governed separately and more narrowly.

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u/renzo_asante10 points·3 months ago·edited

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

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u/coa_forgery_watch8 points·3 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/alcohol_swab_annie6 points·3 months ago

Correction: that is a request for information, not a seizure notice.

Adding the standing caveat — nothing here is legal advice and this one genuinely warrants somebody qualified.

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u/ewan_marchand25 points·3 months ago

Nothing on this board is legal advice. Where a notice carries a deadline or a consequence, that is a matter for somebody qualified in your own jurisdiction.

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u/clara_restrepo36 points·3 months ago

a seizure notice is a document with a process attached, read it

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u/elin_tamm50 points·3 months ago

do not post your own address details when asking

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u/rekha_mbeki15 points·3 months ago

clearance time is not carrier time

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u/rosa_almeida16 points·3 months ago

Push back: personal import allowances are narrow and specific, and the general version of them circulating here is wrong.

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u/dhl_or_bust7 points·3 months ago

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

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u/oskar_kaufmann4 points·3 months ago·edited

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

dhl_or_bust is right that regional stock is the structural answer rather than a trick.

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u/TitrationTortoiseslow and boring28 points·3 months ago

Research-use-only labelling is a description of intended use, not a customs classification. It does not by itself determine how anything is treated at a border.

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