Customs Declaration

[BlackKeno at AOL.COM]

Brian,
 
The last time I shipped was about a year ago.  I made no attempt to  hide the 
nature of the content and listed it as "collectible malt".
 
Nothing like capitalism...
 
Your friend,
John
 
In a message dated 6/24/2006 3:51:23 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
fredrika at PACBELL.NET writes:

 
John, 
I’m sending this to  the list, in case any other US readers are  interested. 
I tried shipping  spirits to the UK via USPO, UPS, FedEx and  DHL.  All 
refused the shipment.  It wasn’t a case of price, or  customs declaration – I was 
told that unless I was on a “list of approved  shippers” they wouldn’t accept 
a shipment of  spirits. 
Ridiculous, Byzantine  US liquor regulations.  Incidentally, I can ship all 
the wine I want to  other states, but absolutely NO spirits. 
Ultimately I had two  choices – lie about the package contents or prevail on 
friends who were  traveling to the UK to hand carry 2 oz of the devil’s brew 
and post it from  the UK! 
When did you ship via  DHL?  Perhaps laws have changed, or perhaps it’s the 
difference between  shipping from California vs. Nevada. 
Brian 
 
  
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From:  MALTS-L at RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE [mailto:MALTS-L at RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE] On 
Behalf Of  BlackKeno at AOL.COM
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 9:33  AM
To:  MALTS-L at LISTS.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE
Subject: Re: Customs  Declaration
 
 
So far here in  Las Vegas,  I've never had a problem getting a shipment.  A 
couple times I was asked  to pay the duty but that I don't mind as long as I 
get my malt!  IIRC,  once I was asked to pay a very small duty (plus huge 
surcharge for a  customs broker) and they ended up just sending it to me without 
requiring  payment.
 

 
There have been two  different problems though.  When I've shipped single 
bottles to friends  in Europe, it's quite pricey.  My last  bottle cost about 
$130 to ship using DHL (the only carrier I could find that  would ship spirits).  
The more frustrating problem is Retailers in Europe  not being willing to 
ship to me  because of misunderstanding of Nevada's laws.  I went to far as to  
email copies of the "Nevada Revised Statutes" that apply to spirit "imports"  
to our state, including the website where the statutes are located and  the 
email address of the supervisor of taxation who said she would be nice  enough to 
confirm that we can bring in one gallon per month.  The  response was "our 
carriers have determined it's not  allowed..."
 

 
Your  friend,
 
John
 

 
In a message dated  6/22/2006 2:43:11 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
rattraprat at AOL.COM  writes:

This is where it  becomes a problem as post vs. private carriers (ups, dhl, 
etc) is usually  less than half price for airmail.  It can be an absolutely 
staggering  sum for even a few bottles (maybe 6kg), and you still have a customs 
risk to  ship to america.

Anecdotally, I  have had a few boxes that were coming via US Post from abroad 
vanish without  a trace this year (beer and whisky), but I have also had 2 
bottles of whisky  (1 quite rare) arrive opened (the bottle).  These were from 
very  reputable sellers, and the packaging had obvoiusly been retaped.   
Obviously I was fortunate the post didn't just keep them, but  still...

Lewis Cook wrote on 6/22/2006, 9:44  AM:  
the us mail on  the other hand has an absolute prohibition against mailing 
anything  containing any form of alcohol so they are generally the ones who  
confiscate whisky.  the origin of the package doesn't matter if the  us mail 
detects it they confiscate it.  
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