Q. Can you send chocolate to the USA

photome

ejones999 wrote: »

I love M&M 's.

Visited the shop in Las Vegas last year - might explain why I'm on a diet now!

M and Ms are nice..but they are smarties not proper chocolate, hav u tried hersheys....it is BAD!!

Alfie_E

Vampgirl wrote: »

You might find some more info here: http://help.cbp.gov/cgi-bin/customs.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=717&p_created=1070554436&p_sid=wUnRJ-Fi&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=82&p_li=&p_topview=1 (if you can make sense of what they're saying!

That page simplifies things to the point of making it incorrect. It states, “Foods sent from an individual to an individual for personal use or as a bona fide gift are not subject to the Prior Notice requirement.” The law never changed, and personal gifts are still subject to the Prior Notice requirement. The section Non-commercial shipments arriving by International Mail of Sending Food through International Mail says just that, since June 2004, Prior Notice is “not generally enforced”.

Amazingly, it look from December 2003 to June 2004 to realise that having private individuals declare every packet of biscuits, every pot of Marmite and every single Galaxy Minstrel in minute detail wasn’t terribly helpful. Their big-brother database would have been getting full of irrelevant crud, and they’d have had a mountain of packages to either destroy or send back.

the_tired_one

Theres a huge industry in exporting AMerican chocolates into the UK.

Plenty of websites cater for US confecyionary/soft drinks.

They cant taste that bad if people are willing to pay big prices for them

Vampgirl

Alfie_E wrote: »

That page simplifies things to the point of making it incorrect. It states, “Foods sent from an individual to an individual for personal use or as a bona fide gift are not subject to the Prior Notice requirement.” The law never changed, and personal gifts are still subject to the Prior Notice requirement. The section Non-commercial shipments arriving by International Mail of Sending Food through International Mail says just that, since June 2004, Prior Notice is “not generally enforced”.

Amazingly, it look from December 2003 to June 2004 to realise that having private individuals declare every packet of biscuits, every pot of Marmite and every single Galaxy Minstrel in minute detail wasn’t terribly helpful. Their big-brother database would have been getting full of irrelevant crud, and they’d have had a mountain of packages to either destroy or send back.

Just shows that even the government departments responsible for enforcing the laws don't always know what they're doing - so its no surprise that us ordinary people get confused....we don't stand a chance! :rotfl:

photome

the_tired_one wrote: »

Theres a huge industry in exporting AMerican chocolates into the UK.

Plenty of websites cater for US confecyionary/soft drinks.

They cant taste that bad if people are willing to pay big prices for them

Have you tasted Hersheys?????

Vampgirl

photome wrote: »

Have you tasted Hersheys?????

Hershey's tastes like smelly socks (well, how I would imagine smelly socks would taste!) It also doesn't smell like chocolate either.

photome

Vampgirl wrote: »

Hershey's tastes like smelly socks (well, how I would imagine smelly socks would taste!) It also doesn't smell like chocolate either.

I think it tastes like sick (but didnt really want to tell every one that)..guess I have now

eripmav

photome wrote: »

I think it tastes like sick (but didnt really want to tell every one that)..guess I have now

I totally agree with you. I made the mistake of buying loads of bars before trying one, man was I annoyed:D

Not only does it taste like vomit whilst you're eating it, the aftertaste lingers for ages.

iltisman

Its all very fashionable to knock all things American but I would like to recomend Hersheys plain chocolate with cranberries and nuts, its really nice.

Heva2015

They do Cadburys in most supermarkets now in America. I did camp for a few summers...you might want to check if they have fridges and stuff to keep things in.