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<p>[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 24635088, member: 15199"]Your situation brought back my nightmare situation dealing with a transaction involving the US Border people and a foreign country. About 10+ years ago I ordered a kilogram bag of zircons from a rock dealer in Nigeria. Every thing went smoothly between the dealer and myself on the financing, it was the shipment that lasted almost three months ,and the zircons traveling more than I have in 80 years <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Zircons are the oldest gemstones on earth, so some display low levels of radiation, which allowed us to know that. However once they got to the US , customs thought they were a weapon, and problems began. They were sent back to Nigeria, who said they wouldn't take them as the radiation was low enough for shipping, soooo they went back to the US, who shipped them right back to Nigeria ( I only found this out later). Nigeria ( who thought this problem rather funny) had a US diplomat there approve it, and it arrived.</p><p> So I hope your problem doesn't require such a Kabongal!, Sometimes it is both sides of the ocean that are the problem. Jim</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1567379[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 24635088, member: 15199"]Your situation brought back my nightmare situation dealing with a transaction involving the US Border people and a foreign country. About 10+ years ago I ordered a kilogram bag of zircons from a rock dealer in Nigeria. Every thing went smoothly between the dealer and myself on the financing, it was the shipment that lasted almost three months ,and the zircons traveling more than I have in 80 years :) Zircons are the oldest gemstones on earth, so some display low levels of radiation, which allowed us to know that. However once they got to the US , customs thought they were a weapon, and problems began. They were sent back to Nigeria, who said they wouldn't take them as the radiation was low enough for shipping, soooo they went back to the US, who shipped them right back to Nigeria ( I only found this out later). Nigeria ( who thought this problem rather funny) had a US diplomat there approve it, and it arrived. So I hope your problem doesn't require such a Kabongal!, Sometimes it is both sides of the ocean that are the problem. Jim [ATTACH=full]1567379[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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