Ghoul
Well-known Member
I bet that's what happened was some faulty paperwork on their part
Just to be clear, a hundred companies or more are shipping packs in a container, and they all provide their own data to the shipper for the customs paperwork. The shipping company can only do so much, they're not going to open every box and analyze the contents. What they can do is ban certain companies from using their services if they have a history of providing false data, and US customs starts driving the point home with tens of thousand in fines for each incident.
Of course none of this is about gear, or even fentanyl really, It's about making sure a system is in place to know the accurate value of the contents of each box so duties can be charged. That's going to be worth tens of billions a year.
I'll give you one example of the way the system is being abused. Some high value products are being assembled in the US using parts being shipped from foreign countries as if they're consumer goods worth less than $800 per box, so they're untaxed. Some factories in the US have had packages of parts shipped to employees to avoid the customs duties for commercial goods.
They recently caught an entire helicopter, minus the blades, shipped this way.