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c/customs·posted 1 year ago by u/fatima_asante

jurisdiction — 3 things I got wrong before I got it right

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jurisdiction — 3 things I got wrong before I got it right. I have gone back and forth on this for months.

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

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.

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

I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.

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u/mikkel_correia105 points·1 year 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/ignacio_vanhecke124 points·1 year ago

Disagree — that is the position in one country and this thread is about another. They are genuinely different.

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u/dario_boateng59 points·1 year ago

Disagree — that is the position in one country and this thread is about another.

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

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u/rosa_sandvik-37 points·1 year ago·edited

keep the paperwork, including the boring parts

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u/fatima_asanteOP39 points·1 year ago

jurisdiction first, everything else is downstream

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u/fatima_asanteOP0 points·1 year ago

Shipped from regional stock or from origin?

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u/milan_wikstrom29 points·1 year ago

the answer for Spain does not apply anywhere else

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u/ines_lindqvist64 points·1 year 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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u/appeal_letter_al43 points·1 year ago

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

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u/whois_wanda33 points·1 year ago

Not convinced. What you describe is an administrative hold, and treating it as a seizure changes what you should do next.

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u/dario_boateng23 points·1 year 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/jonas_cardoso10 points·1 year ago

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

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u/lane_watcherMOD34 points·1 year ago

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

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u/peptidemeter_pat19 points·1 year ago

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

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[deleted]24 points·1 year ago

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u/aurel_mwangi56 points·1 year ago·edited

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.

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u/week_four_wall19 points·1 year ago

if it matters, ask somebody qualified in your own jurisdiction

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u/rohan_steiner4 points·1 year ago

do not post your own address details when asking

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u/stubborn_batchlist_pls41 points·1 year ago

research-use-only labelling is not a customs category

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u/fatima_asanteOP31 points·1 year ago

research-use-only labelling is not a customs category

This is why every thread here has to start with a country.

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