[Question] declared value — what am I missing here
Genuine question, and the title is the question: declared value — what am I missing here. Got a request for information and treated it as a seizure for two days before actually reading it. It was neither dramatic nor difficult. Ordered from the warehouse in France and the whole import question disappeared. 3 days,…
keep the paperwork, including the boring parts
Asked the supplier what documentation travels with the shipment and got a straight answer. That was reassuring in itself.
That delay was at clearance, not with the carrier. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
Small fix — those rules apply to commercial import. Personal import is governed separately and more narrowly.
Have you asked the supplier what they declare?
Country added to the title. Without it the answers will be confidently wrong.