Overseas shipping info I'm not happy about

is that at one time or to one buyer or all together for the year????????????????

That really sucks.

well

I'd always assumed you all knew there were EXPORT LAWS....

that is one reason I keep my "international" sales to a bare minimum...

Cheryl DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

I'm not sure where you found the regulation stating this restriction, but I think the export regulations have more to do with the Commerce Control List of items than with beads. After following some of the links on the page you gave, I'm pretty sure beads don't require a special export license to sell overseas - unless, of course, they contain hidden nuclear secrets and you're sending them to Cuba! LOL!

Seriously, I'll research this more thoroughly when I have more time, but I truly think you needn't worry about beads.

Mj

yeah, come on Kalera...quit tucking the warheads into the vessels and everything will be fine. Ha!

~Candace~

Mj wrote:

Its the holographic blue prints that have the gov worried. Beads have come a long way.... Diana

That's for the *whole year*. Basically where I'm at right now is that if I ship one more thing overseas this year without the license and they catch me, I'm screwed. I HAD NO IDEA.

I'm going to call SCORE for more easily comprehensible information about the license. The government site is a PITA to make sense of.

-Kalera

Armand V> is that at one time or to one buyer or all together for the

Of COURSE I know there are export laws - how insulting - so I read the section on customs and tried to glean as much info as I could there... it would help if one branch of the government would at least refer to other related branches so you might have an inkling of what to research further. As far as I could find, as long as I was filling out appropriate forms and paying taxes on my income, I was doing everything I needed to because I am manufacturing my own wares and I am not exporting bulk goods for resale.

If you don't know you need a license to do something, and when you do your research on the proper ways to do it it never gets mentioned in any of the documentation you read, how are you going to find out? I assume you know that our government doesn't exactly make it convenient or easy to get the information we need... they'd rather make the money on fines by nailing us for violations.

Maybe I need to move to NZ, where they appear to actually have a government that MAKES SENSE.

-Kalera

Cheryl wrote:

Thanks! I am going to call SCORE and have them translate for me... someone there will probably have experience with this.

-Kalera

Mj wrote:

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kalera Stratton :

]as long as I was filling out ]appropriate forms and paying taxes on my income, I was doing everything ]I needed to because I am manufacturing my own wares and I am not ]exporting bulk goods for resale.

that's always what i thought too, Kalera!

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Hi Kalera -

I just found this on the Trade Information Center website about licensing:

"Though your locality may require a business license, a special license is not required to engage in exporting in most cases. However, exports to certain countries or individuals or exports of certain products may be restricted or require licenses or other types of approval. For example, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issues licenses for the export of certain "dual-use items", i.e., items with both civilian and military applications. For more information about special licensing for exporting, see the articles titled "Export Controls" and "Export Classification Numbers (ECCN)". "

This is from a TIC October 2002 article entitled STARTING AN EXPORT COMPANY.

I think we can safely say our bead exports don't require a license. I'd like to know, however, where you found the information about exporting over $500 worth of goods a year requiring a license. I looked into export regulations over four years ago and never did find anything on any government website that indicated I needed a license at all. Just want to be sure that 9/11 didn't change things and it's just not showing up on the webpages I've seen this afternoon.

Thanks and HTH!

Mj

Maybe this is one of those stupid old laws that never got repealed or whatever, and no-one is bored or stupid enough to have the job of counting?

Here's hoping anyway...

I couldn't think of a more dumb law or how someone even came up with that one! What a boring life that person must have had!

Mavis

How did you know we have a woman Prime Minister?

Mavis

Hey Kalera..

Careful not to make smoke where there might not be a fire... it might give them ideas....

Mavis

I dunno... intuition? ;)

-Kalera

AmazeR wrote: