[pure-silver] Re: Flying with hazard stuff in the US (?)
- From: Pablo Kolodny <pkolodny@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:47:22 -0300
On 7/27/10 at 5:10 PM, dave@xxxxxxxxxx (David Hornford) wrote:
Two fundamental problems.
at least
1) probable problems carrying any quantity of chemicals onto a commercial
passenger jet out of the US. The luggage is x-rayed and suspicious packages
examined. Quantity of powders are suspicious on several points to your
average TSA screener. Once they look at the powder and discover it is not a
cocaine haul they will get nervous about what it is. The antidote to nerves
is to deny it on the plane.
ridiculous for ordinary times, understandable for the crazy
times we live in now. Still ridiculous though
2) Argentinean customs. If you ship by post YOU are the customs broker. By
definition a customs broker knows the rules, the classification and the
forms. In the Argentinean customs manual there are 3,110 lines covering
"chemicals & photographic materials". Not surprising you get different
answers. Here in Canada it is easy, shipper fills out a simple form with a
value & I pay federal value add tax on the value. For most personal
shipments by post they completely skip the customs bit (limited return for
effort). Argentina customs likely takes a different approach and will
happily out you through a run-around to collect the fee (based on your point
and my grief with Argentina when I spent a year commuting for work in South
America)
If you happened to be in South America you know what I’m
speaking of. Though Argentina pretends to be a more civilized or
european country than others in the area we suffer from the
unreasonable regulations too. What I wouldn’t want for me is
to have them wast my time just for collecting money out of
absurd taxes which would be intended to protect every goods made
in the country, but what about goods and/or products that are
really not made here, why should I pay taxes for such a thing ?
A commercial shipper (UPS/ DHL/ FedEx) will act as your customs broker
(confirm before you use them that they will clear and deliver direct to the
recipient address). Upside, it is taken care of. Downside the customs bill
is whatever the bill is, and there will be a service fee (assume $50-$100
for the privilege). This bill will either be presented at delivery (UPS),
sent after the fact (FedEx) or collected before your item clears if the
value is high or they have any doubts about collecting (FedEx & UPS). Second
downside to a commercial shipper is they need to know what is being shipped
(they are clearing so they need to fill the forms out). As such the moment
you say 'chemicals' expect to be passed to their dangerous goods team.
Upside, you get the materials, downside you will pay more for shipping. UPS
doesn't appear to offer 'dangerous goods' to Argentina.
No thanks, UPS and FedEx to steel money here. I’ve already
experienced that and they charge for every thing you’re
expected to be charged plus the unexpected too, usually itemized
under the famous “extra fees”, documentation handling and
the likes.
And they don’t let you do your own customs papers, that means
theirs is a business. Not bad if you were charged what a regular
broker would, but theirs is over three times ordinary fees. I
better forget private couriers.
Regards
Pablo
Dave
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