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We have been advised that Customs intends to bond all packages not deemed for personal use, regardless of their value, effective immediately.
This may adversely affect the clearing and delivery of packages deemed to be for trade/business.
We are seeking further clarification on this matter.
We will update you as soon as we have confirmation and/or more information.
We thank you for your patience and the continued opportunity to be of service.
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AYSN wrote:Yup it means customs will hold it and thoroughly inspect it and then tax you.
As it is now, if you want to get through early you need yo be up there by servisair by 6am so you would finish by 8am....because all bonded packages go there
Dhl fedex ups all skybox companies etc....so i assume it would be a thousand times worse if they enforce this
Servisair also had a daily storage fee. So if you have a lax skybox company and they inform you a few days after that your package bonded and it at servisair
....charges iymc.
Also these customs officers like to go on google and look for the highest value possible for whatever items they clearing. Had happened to me a few times where i had brought in some cheap chinese tabs that were 20 us each and they value it as ipads...600 us each....
But it had no vat or duty on tablets st that time so it didnt matter anyway...they was just being muffler bearings.
Same thing with some watches i brought...paid about 5k....they value it at 200k........i tell them to keep it because it not worth that......
Now this process can also include them sending you down to customs house in pos to see the senior people there for them to sign off on the value of a item and then come back to them in piarco to pay and release it
So this is very easily a one day or two day or 3 day process depending on what it is.
firetruck the small businessman
AYSN wrote:Yup it means customs will hold it and thoroughly inspect it and then tax you.
As it is now, if you want to get through early you need yo be up there by servisair by 6am so you would finish by 8am....because all bonded packages go there
Dhl fedex ups all skybox companies etc....so i assume it would be a thousand times worse if they enforce this
Servisair also had a daily storage fee. So if you have a lax skybox company and they inform you a few days after that your package bonded and it at servisair
....charges iymc.
Also these customs officers like to go on google and look for the highest value possible for whatever items they clearing. Had happened to me a few times where i had brought in some cheap chinese tabs that were 20 us each and they value it as ipads...600 us each....
But it had no vat or duty on tablets st that time so it didnt matter anyway...they was just being muffler bearings.
Same thing with some watches i brought...paid about 5k....they value it at 200k........i tell them to keep it because it not worth that......
Now this process can also include them sending you down to customs house in pos to see the senior people there for them to sign off on the value of a item and then come back to them in piarco to pay and release it
So this is very easily a one day or two day or 3 day process depending on what it is.
firetruck the small businessman
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BRZ wrote:Welcome to the Republic of Congo and Tobago............ stupid banana republic....................
Cross Blood wrote:So I've been using this skybox for 4 years now and I haven't gotten this problem. I ordered a package on 6th April, 2016 and was delivered to my skybox on 20th April, 2016. After a few days of not receiving a notification that the package arrived, I decided to message them about it. They say they needed the invoice for the package. So I sent it. They cleared the package on 6th May, 2016 and sent me the shipping invoice so I was expecting delivery on 9th May, 2016. After a few days of no delivery to me, I decided to contact them. They stated that the package was at the warehouse but they don't know why it hasn't been delivered yet.
A few weeks passed again so I decided to message finance department and they said they will search for the package as it is NOT at the Trinidad warehouse. A few days after they said the package is still in Florida and they are sending it to Trinidad. What I want to know is if the package is in Florida, how did they send the shipping invoice for me as if it was cleared in Trinidad already?
supercharged turbo wrote:Thread quiet these days.Everybody only asking me when was de last time I order something.Been almost 2 months..don't feel like getting raped from customs anytime soon.
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