overseas shipment

sunny03 · Jul 2, 2008

Hi

Is there any Sponsors that does overseas shipment to asia

labman · Jul 2, 2008

buy me a ticket and fly me there I will try to bring it with me. show me around a buy me a dinner and we are good.. I wish lol you need a cites in order to receive corals from another country even if it 1st came from you country. may I ask where you are from?

http://www.cites.org/eng/disc/species.shtml

GMaquarium · Jul 30, 2008

I have a permit for shipping from Asia, why do you need something from here. All the good stuff is easy to find in Asia.

By the way where do you live?

oceanparadise1 · Jul 30, 2008

g u just do everything huh

GMaquarium · Jul 30, 2008

oceanparadise1 said:
g u just do everything huh

Well I don't dance, or at least well. I can't draw... I also don't transship to Asia from here, just do the other way around.

oceanparadise1 · Jul 30, 2008

lol ur still the man haha i would love to see ya dance thou that would probably be funny

Reef Goddess · Jul 31, 2008

I have shipped to Taiwan and several other countries successfully in the past. I just don't have the permits because no one has been interested lately.

oceanparadise1 · Jul 31, 2008

so u have to have a permit to ship to another countrie?

Reef Goddess · Jul 31, 2008

Oh yes. You have to have a wholesale dealers lic if I remember correctly @ $300 per year and then each shipment has to have CITES paperwork, which costs like $50 per shipment or something. Otherwise you can be involved with Fish & Wildlife in an experience you won't forget, trust me. lol

oceanparadise1 · Jul 31, 2008

wow i never knew that!

coralfan · Jul 31, 2008

does that include aquacultured corals

Reef Goddess · Jul 31, 2008

Yeah, I'm pretty sure anything shipped overseas has to have CITES paperwork. I could be wrong, I'm no expert. Its pretty easy to ship overseas without permits because customs never really checks, but just hope you don't get reported by someone.

oceanparadise1 · Jul 31, 2008

wow thats crazy

Reef Goddess · Aug 1, 2008

Indeed. I actually stopped doing it because the shippers weren't reliable enough. About 1 in every 5-6 shipments would get delayed for some reason or the other. That was using fedex and dhl.

oceanparadise1 · Aug 1, 2008

yea and thats a death trap for what ever your shipping i see why you stopped

Nate82 · Aug 1, 2008

Reef Goddess said:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure anything shipped overseas has to have CITES paperwork. I could be wrong, I'm no expert. Its pretty easy to ship overseas without permits because customs never really checks, but just hope you don't get reported by someone.

exactly... it's unrealistic for them to open and check every box... what's to stop someone from going to japan and buying aquacultured corals, and then overnighting them home?