AW: Customs Declaration

[Horst Luening]

Hello John!

It depends on the port of entrance (including Airports) into the US for the
spirits. If you ship whisky to Nevada by UPS, you will enter the US probably
via its giant hub in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This is the main problem for spirits. And the amount of shipped spirits
would be sp small, that the big carriers will not look after alternative
routes. Federal Post is looking mainly after Federal Laws.

The shipments of wine inside the US is covered by a treaty between groups of
states. Most of this wine transport is done by surface carrier and you are
close to sure, that you do not touch prohibition grounds.

Regards,
Horst


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  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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