[Nhcoll-l] new US Customs regulations?

[Trina Roberts]

Hi Doug and all,

We (NHM Los Angeles County, that is) have been having some difficulties,
and quite a bit of confusion, with international shipments lately, but all
with USFWS, not US Customs or USPS.  That seems to be due to personnel
changes in the local (Torrance) office.  If that sounds like it's at all
related to what you're seeing, we should talk further.

--Trina




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Trina E. Roberts, Ph.D.
Associate VP, Collections
Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County
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troberts at nhm.org
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:30 AM Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Hi, all. We have been having some serious problems trying to send
> specimens to overseas destinations in the past two months, and I'm
> wondering whether anyone else is having similar difficulties, and/or knows
> exactly how to comply with the new policies.
>
> We have gotten packages returned with comments that we were using outdated
> forms, and we went to the Post Office and got what were ostensibly the new
> forms. Just today we got back a package with what we had thought was a
> correct form, but it had been stamped to indicate that they will not accept
> forms that are handwritten, and instead ONLY digital Customs forms will be
> accepted.
>
> It's possible that these rejected shipments reflect some genuine changes
> in the regulations, but these days it seems like it could just as easily be
> that the personnel processing our shipments are mistakenly rejecting the
> shipments because THEY are confused.
>
> If the former, we would expect that we are not the only US institution
> having difficulty shipping internationally. So, I have two essential
> questions:
>
> (1) Has anyone else experienced similar rejections of shipments recently?
>
> (2) Is anyone aware *definitively* of the correct new forms and
> procedures, *especially* if the forms must be filled out online?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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