[NHCOLL-L:2647] Re: IATA and China

[Gregory Watkins-Colwell]

oddly enough, I ship via FedEx to Australia a few times a year.  Always 
with the Excepted Quantities sticker on the box.  It gets held up on their 
end all the time, but always for different reasons.  Once, because the 
recipient institution did not have a permit on file to receive such goods 
(or that was the story at least).  And at least once because I did not 
include a letter stating the chemical history of the specimens.  They 
wanted to know not just what they were in NOW, but what they had been in 
BEFORE.  Just recently it was held up on their end because the ship-to 
address was wrong.  The reason it was wrong is that I had to use an older 
address for Western Australian Museum because FedEx would not accept the 
Post Code for the new address.

Point is, wet specimens packed appropriately and labelled honestly did in 
fact get into Australia.  It took a while.  But it did happen.


greg

At 02:16 PM 5/10/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>One of the folks in our Division of Insects was just told of similar 
>limitations by personnel from both FedEx and UPS.  He was told both 
>companies consider excepted quantities packages to be no different from 
>other dangerous goods packages in terms of acceptability for 
>shipment.  Both companies also said that numerous countries will not 
>accept any dangerous goods packages (including excepted quantities) under 
>any circumstances.  They were clear that these restrictions are instituted 
>by the countries themselves, not the couriers.  According to FedEx and UPS 
>staff, included among these countries are Mexico, Czech Republic, 
>Guatemala, Australia, and New Zealand.  FedEx does not publish a list of 
>countries that will accept dangerous goods shipments, but UPS does ( 
>http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/prepare/idg/information/country.html 
>).
>
>As Greg asked, has anyone else been told similar things?  I thought these 
>limitations were those of the couriers, not the countries.  DHL has a 
>similar list of countries that will accept excepted quantities packages, 
>and while it is slightly larger than the UPS list, it is still very 
>restrictive.  Staff in our Division of Fishes tried sending an excepted 
>quantities package to Brazil, only to have it returned after getting as 
>far as Miami because Brazil is not on DHL's list.  Likewise, there are no 
>Central or South American countries on the UPS list.
>
>Have any of you had shipments to specific countries returned (or worse) 
>because the countries will not accept dangerous goods packages?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jamie
>
>
>
>
>At 5/9/2005 01:42 PM, Gregory Watkins-Colwell wrote:
>>Does anyone know if China accepts packages of "hazardous materials" if 
>>packaged in accordance with IATA regulations?
>>
>>Turns out that some countries do not accept any hazardous materials 
>>packages regardless of how packed and I'm wondering if China might be one 
>>of those countries.
>>
>>Greg
>>
>>
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