I need to know something from those who have successfully ordered personal
use tea from YunnanSourcing...did you fill out the FDA declaration or did
they or how was it handled if at all? It keeps happeneing to me that I will
order something from overseas but the people I am buying from don't mention
the paperwork or they don't communicate with me in a timely manner and I
have trouble figuring out what needs to be taken care of. Would someone too,
who has actually ordered puer from China and actually filled out the customs
forms and/or FDA forms, tell me exactly what they did? It's very confusing
to me and when I call the FDA help people they are not much better at
helping me.

Correct me if I am wrong: There are two branches of paperwork that need to
be filled out, Customs (CBP) and FDA. But the customs is only if it's worth
more than $2000 (unless it's commercial or restricted etc. but I'm talking
tea here). ANyone know any different?

The FDA paperwork needs to be done and needs to have a date on which the
package is going to be mailed. This is where I've had trouble because I
don't get timely answers back from sellers as to when they are going to mail
the package, they always tell me after they've mailed it at which point it's
too late to afix that FDA number to the outside of the package.

I went through this for a pack of tea from Malaysia about a year ago and my
entry for the package never showed up in my FDA account even though I saved
it and everything. I have gotten small packages of tea from China with no
problem, but YunnanSourcing is the first Ebay seller I've dealt with for tea
and that's why I'm a little nervous. I'm not saying they're not on the up
and up, I'm just saying that I don't know that they would know that they
would need to mention any paperwork to me. I don't like playing russian
roulette with my tea and that's what I feel like I'm doing right now.

Melinda



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