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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"I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows,
and Henry knows we know it."
We're a knowledgeable family." ::smiles:: -Geoffrey, Lion in Winter

Melinda,
I privately shipped Pu-Erh and other teas (up to 20kg) from China to
the US and elsewhere, just declared it as "tea" on the customs form,
the guys at the post office had to watch me packing it (kind of a
requirement? in Kunming) and that was it. Never had any
problems/complaints, everything just went fine.

Karsten / Darjeeling

Hmpf, just let me add that over here in Darjeeling we tried to import
LED torches from 2 different chinese companies registered with eBay
China. Both had a reasonable feedback rating, all email correspondence
went fine, until they just disappeared from eBay, luckily before we
sent the money.

Karsten / Darjeeling

I've ordered puerh from eBay sellers based in china and jing, and had
no problems regarding FDA or customs paperwork. The packages showed a
declaration of "green tea."

Every Ebay seller I've ordered from China send by China Post. They
fill out the Customs Declaration at that end. The description is 'tea'
and sent as a 'gift'. It looks like the contents is inspected before
shipping because they all have China Post wrapping tape. Your first
couple of shipments may be inspected at our Customs but I think sending
and receiving addresses are computerized so that becomes the security
level because my packages aren't opened anymore. It seems the FDA
requirement fell by the wayside or maybe just a requirement from Muslim
countries if you know what I mean. You just have to wait which is
about 30 days SAL from Kunming.

Jim

Melinda wrote:
> 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?
....I delete you...

No problem on two orders from Yunnan Sourcing shipped to CT, the only
English on the box was my address and one had copies of a customs form
in both Chinese and English rubber banded to the box that the seller
had completed.
All arrived in the past 2 weeks

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:45:50 -0800, "Melinda" >
wrote:

>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?

Melinda, I replied to you twice, once two weeks ago and once a few
days ago. Am I ending up in your SPAM filter?

--
Mike Petro
http://www.pu-erh.net

I've also had no problems with getting tea from this source to Australia.
All my parcels get opened by customs because they have food in them - but
otherwise they have arrived ok. One parcel got sent by surface mail and was
really late, but I'm inclined to blame that on the post office rather than
the sender. These things occasionally happen.

"Mike Petro" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:45:50 -0800, "Melinda" >
> wrote:
>
>>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?
>
> Melinda, I replied to you twice, once two weeks ago and once a few
> days ago. Am I ending up in your SPAM filter?
>
> --
> Mike Petro
> http://www.pu-erh.net

Wow Mike, you know you're not in my bulk folder either...!!?? Stupid Yahoo.
I'll send you my other email address in a message on your site, that should
get through. Very very weird, Scott also was not getting my emails...

Melinda