Modern Vespa

Get those orders in quick folks!
(Cross posting here bc I know some of you folks don't often visit the GD forum.)

Big Changes in US Import Regulations

I've done my fair share of US Customs forms. one of the most wild forms demanded by US Customs was a Mill Test Certificate for every part that included aluminum. essentially a certification that includes chemical and physical properties issued to each part. Going through that process, you would have thought i was bringing an Edmund Fitzgerald size boat of aluminum.

that doesn't have a lot to do with the OP's concerns, just wanted to share.

my thoughts- you run the gauntlet of bringing in anything overseas. . and that's the risk, or paperwork, you endure. there are great parts sellers that take all this work out of your hands and make your problems theirs.

sounds like the SIP order via scooter mercato will be more useful than ever.

That will likely still be illegal.

untrue.

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Proven, time and time again.

More like low enforcement priority. If a shipment, outside the normal course of business, in other words, merchandise a business doesn't regularly stock and sell, is purchased at the behest of and solely for the benefit of a particular end user, CBP wants to know the identity of the end user. And while someone can do their own customs clearance, a second party that does it on behalf of someone else needs a license. The mere act of importation involves customs clearance, whether or not you are asked to fill out an HS-7. The odds that CBP will crack down on this, unless it comes up as part of an investigation into something else, are slim. I am well aware that it is possible to state a set of facts in a way that is most beneficial to the argument that this is not what is happening, and it is also possible to state the same facts in a way that is most beneficial to the argument that an unlicensed individual performed customs clearance work on behalf of, and concealed the identity of, the end user from CBP.
If someone purchases something on a website that is out of stock, and the seller then orders it for their own business, to sell to the end user, that would be treated differently than if someone sends a list of items they want that are not on the seller's website, but are on a foreign website. Does the importer sell the same item for the same price on their own website or in their own store?

Now that the big companies in Germany have embraced the concept of sticking their name on Alibaba crap, the odds that products enter the country that don't meet DOT, NHTSA,FTC, CPSC or EPA standards have increased. All it takes is one catastrophic failure of something like a Chinese CNC brake caliper, for example, to focus a good PI attorney on the entire process by which this part ended up on the front end of their client's bike. How did this part get into the country?
Yes, there are ways around this, but the ones that fall into the "evading enforcement of existing rules and regulations," aren't going to be particularly helpful.
Take another look at boxes 25 and 26 on CBP form 7501.

If there is something I'm missing or overlooks that makes this all legal, I would like to know it. We were going to do something similar with a different company about six years ago, and were unable to figure out a way forward that would comply with US Customs regulations.

Amen brother.