InsuranceTom said:International shipping tracking for cross-border ordering orders: my experience with customs in the US when ordering from overseas: Seized and…
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions. What is a personal-import allowance in one country is a controlled-import offence in another.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
DanielChem_CHI said:Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions.
Coming at DanielChem_CHI’s question from a different direction. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
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Shop Reference StandardsA narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?
Closing the loop on my own question.
Closing the loop. The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.