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Does anybody send small amounts of honey to the EU?
What courier do you use?
What courier do you use?
One of my customers put the honey in the travel bottles and got to Europe without any problems.Don't know about post but UK customs wouldn't allow my cousin to take a jar in baggage on the plane back to NL. Brexit given as excuse.
that would have been some jobsworth in 'security' and not BF - small amounts of honey (a coule of kilos or so IIRC) in hold baggage are allowed to most countries (Australia being one exception) liquids in hand baggage are of course restricted because of anti terrorist concernsDon't know about post but UK customs wouldn't allow my cousin to take a jar in baggage on the plane back to NL.
However "honey" from China seems to be accepted in any quantity under a variety of guises.How does it work in the reverse situation ? amazon seems to have no problem shipping many items in either direction. I recently purchased some commercial window cleaning poles from Belgium without any problems. Do we have problems due to spite from 1 or both sides ... I think we do
What is meant by security labelled ?My brother visits from Australia most Summers and regularly takes a couple of jars of my honey back with him. The customs folk in Brisbane are quite happy for him to import the honey as long as it is properly labelled, security labelled, runny and not any set variety so that it can receive visual inspection. They are not happy with set / soft set honey as they can't easily give it a visual check for any unwanted inclusions.
Security Labels | Tamper Proof Labels.What is meant by security labelled ?
The heat treatment ?
They wouldn't let me take a jar in in 2006. It was a present for a relative, I reckon customs fought over it !My brother visits from Australia most Summers and regularly takes a couple of jars of my honey back with him. The customs folk in Brisbane are quite happy for him to import the honey as long as it is properly labelled, security labelled, runny and not any set variety so that it can receive visual inspection. They are not happy with set / soft set honey as they can't easily give it a visual check for any unwanted inclusions.
Probably each state is different. I don't reckon he'd get it into Tasmania for instance. I've never seen any honey from the UK.My brother visits from Australia most Summers and regularly takes a couple of jars of my honey back with him. The customs folk in Brisbane are quite happy for him to import the honey as long as it is properly labelled, security labelled, runny and not any set variety so that it can receive visual inspection. They are not happy with set / soft set honey as they can't easily give it a visual check for any unwanted inclusions.
During the early 1970s long before emails, a friend of mine (ex pat) in RSA was faced with an apparently steep charge for a parcel from her mother in UK. Knowing already it was a huge birthday card and it didn't have money tucked in it, she simply declined but sent a letter of thanks to mother anyway.I sent 3 jars of my honey to my brother in Ireland 2 years ago as a present in the post. He was hit with 25 Euros in charges before he could receive it. Something neither of us were aware of. This year I got my sister to take some over in her suitcase when visiting him and she had no problems at all. Before Brexit my honey got through no problem!
Yes in the hold is fine.Cabin baggage honey is a no-no. In the hold it's fine. Personal experience. I offered it to the lady who confiscated it but she said although she loved honey it was against the rules until the "over 100ml rule was scrapped". I then told her she wouldn't need to confiscate it as it was for my friend. Smelly cheese was OK!
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