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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 8088094, member: 105098"]I ship packages and freight international all the time, and yeah, they inspect it, even when you are a known shipper, it really depends on how the description was filled out, if it had a schedule B, what it's origin and destination are, value, ect. </p><p><br /></p><p>If something is missing on the commercial invoice or it looks shady, it's going to be searched for excluded items, or dangerous goods. Normally the dog or the cargo sniffer is enough, but many ways to raise a flag and get your package opened and searched. It can even be the shippers history that gets it searched. It's normal if you do a lot of shipping to see it from time to time. if you rarely ship international you might never see it, i see it a couple times to a handful a year. Mines usually a pallet that been opened and dug through then coated in CBP tape to close it back up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Heck, I bought a bunch of TVs from New York to supply to a foreign country for a markup. The first shipment to me was fine by truck, by the 3rd shipment my State contacted me for an audit of our books because they noticed I was bringing in all these TVs from a different state and they thought they were owed sales and use tax.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which they weren't as we have a RTE certificate, and it's sold out of country to someone else that's tax exempt also, still took them a year to complete the audit and cost us thousands to get whatever info they requested and accountant time costs and that's not even CBP . was the states record keeping at weigh stations of cargo manifests entering the state.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 8088094, member: 105098"]I ship packages and freight international all the time, and yeah, they inspect it, even when you are a known shipper, it really depends on how the description was filled out, if it had a schedule B, what it's origin and destination are, value, ect. If something is missing on the commercial invoice or it looks shady, it's going to be searched for excluded items, or dangerous goods. Normally the dog or the cargo sniffer is enough, but many ways to raise a flag and get your package opened and searched. It can even be the shippers history that gets it searched. It's normal if you do a lot of shipping to see it from time to time. if you rarely ship international you might never see it, i see it a couple times to a handful a year. Mines usually a pallet that been opened and dug through then coated in CBP tape to close it back up. Heck, I bought a bunch of TVs from New York to supply to a foreign country for a markup. The first shipment to me was fine by truck, by the 3rd shipment my State contacted me for an audit of our books because they noticed I was bringing in all these TVs from a different state and they thought they were owed sales and use tax. Which they weren't as we have a RTE certificate, and it's sold out of country to someone else that's tax exempt also, still took them a year to complete the audit and cost us thousands to get whatever info they requested and accountant time costs and that's not even CBP . was the states record keeping at weigh stations of cargo manifests entering the state.[/QUOTE]
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