Importing Hippeastrum to Mexico advice
J.E. Shields (Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:31:17 PDT)

Darren,

I only know how it works here in the U.S.A. If the parcels come by the
postal service, they are handed back to the USPS by the Customs inspectors
and go on their merry way to me. If they come by airfrieght, I have to use
a customs brokerage firm to see them through customs and inspections, and
then to forward them on to me.

You might look for a respectable customs broker who operates at the Mexican
port of entry through which you expect plants or bulbs to be shipped to
you. Airfreight shipment and customs brokers are the best way to handle
large batches of bulbs or plants, but they are definitely more expensive
than air parcel post.

I've no idea what you'll run into in Mexico, but I suspect you need to find
someone there who already knows the ropes. This says "Customs Broker" to
me; and trying to do things on the cheap sounds like a recipe for disaster,
IMHO.

But, as I said, I know nothing about how things work in Mexico!

Regards,
Jim Shields
in central Indiana (USA)

At 03:38 PM 8/26/2005 +0000, you wrote:

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