Custom declaration

[Pascal De Schepper]

Very smart to tell all these tricks in a public internet list.... :-))))


J. Stephen Lure wrote:

> Hm, "grape juice" isn't exactly the best specification, is it? "Malt 
> juice" would be more correct. ;-)
>
> I don't know anything about British law, but here in Sweden it is 
> regarded as a premeditated
> attempt to smuggle, if you lie about the content. And if any bottle is 
> intercepted by the
> customs under such conditions, it can and will be destroyed.
>
> La Maison du Whisky kept sending me "lava lamps" until I told them to 
> label the content
> "collectors malt".
>
> Cheers,
> JESPER
>
> PS It isn't required to declare the content of a parcel, if you send a 
> bottle of whisky within
> the EU, at least when sending it from Sweden. But this is a legal 
> minefield that I won't go any
> further into...
>
> "I've been sent quite a number of whisky bottles from the US over the 
> years, and the custom
> declaration form has claimed the package contains things like 'olive 
> oil', 'grape juice',
> 'cologne', etc. But the latest one which arrived today is the first 
> one which really does not
> make any false claims whatsoever. The form claims the package contains 
> an 'Art Work'!"
>
> Cheers, Lex
>
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