r/alibaba
Customs inspection for almost a month
The author complains about a customs inspection lasting for almost a month, indicating potential business or logistical delays.
- Customs inspection lasting nearly a month indicates potential regulatory hurdles or logistical delays.
- Prolonged inspections could negatively impact cross-border e-commerce or supply chain efficiency.
It happens time to time customs suddenly decides to actually check everything, it’s perfectly normal. Check with your seller sometimes it’s because of a HS issue and they haven’t responded to the logistics firm!
My seller keeps trying to communicate with Alibaba Logistics, but they are just saying we have to wait and there is a customs inspection. They are not even actually looking into I feel and just reading the tracking info.
I wonder if it was declared properly, was it DDP?
It was DDP
If DDP, might be a issue of misdeclaration - especially if you are not technically the IOR.
What would you say is the best way to do shipping so I can stop having customs delays? I now have an additional 2 packages being held up.