Shipping kits/materials across international borders
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:02 am
Hi all,
Sorry to keep bugging you all, but I'm looking for help/advice on shipping kits and parts to Canada. In researching possible 2nd kits to build, I discovered that there can be all kinds of problems with shipping certain kinds of wood and supplies across the border from the US to Canada. My first kit (with rosewood back and sides) was ordered in blissful ignorance of all of this, and just sailed through without a hitch, arriving here just a couple of days after I placed the order. Would I be right in assuming that this was just blind luck, and that I should be more careful in the future? Or is there some way to label a kit that somehow makes it exempt from rules that seem to trip up other kinds of imports?
And, if I should be being careful, what woods and supplies should I be avoiding to minimize shipping problems? I know rosewood is probably right out, but are there others to be mindful as well?
Thanks in advance for any help that you all can provide.
Andrew
Sorry to keep bugging you all, but I'm looking for help/advice on shipping kits and parts to Canada. In researching possible 2nd kits to build, I discovered that there can be all kinds of problems with shipping certain kinds of wood and supplies across the border from the US to Canada. My first kit (with rosewood back and sides) was ordered in blissful ignorance of all of this, and just sailed through without a hitch, arriving here just a couple of days after I placed the order. Would I be right in assuming that this was just blind luck, and that I should be more careful in the future? Or is there some way to label a kit that somehow makes it exempt from rules that seem to trip up other kinds of imports?
And, if I should be being careful, what woods and supplies should I be avoiding to minimize shipping problems? I know rosewood is probably right out, but are there others to be mindful as well?
Thanks in advance for any help that you all can provide.
Andrew