Hi Dirk<br>We have had several issues shipping herp wet specimens to China, with specimens being stopped at customs on the Chinese side multiple times (to Beijing, Kunming, and various other places). Some specimens was returned to us, and another was caught in customs for several months and then released. We finally had to get APHIS permits from Sacramento proving that these were not carrying any disease, which is something that is usually done for farm animals, not natural history specimens fixed in formalin. We don't mail specimens or tissues to China anymore, we usually have someone hand carry it now or wait until the researcher is out of the country to send it to them. We never used a CR code, but customs officials never asked for that either. We were shipping following all normal ethanol shipment regulations.<br>
<br>Good luck,<br>Carol<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Clark, Andrew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ClarkAP@si.edu" target="_blank">ClarkAP@si.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Dirk,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Someone forwarded your email stream so I thought I’d weigh in on your concerns. We routinely ship botanical specimens & mounting supplies to China and I have never needed a CR code. As stated by some others the CR code may be required if shipping to a Chinese company rather than a Chinese Institution/School/Museum. If you have any questions on shipping natural history specimens to China please do not hesitate to ask.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Andrew Clark<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Andrew P. Clark<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Loans Officer<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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