Timeline for Can Customs make me go back to return my electronic equipment or is it a scam?
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| Oct 3, 2016 at 10:06 | comment | added | coteyr | @pnuts Electronics get VERY odd in some cases. the EAR limits "Examples of controlled commodities include, but are not limited to, lasers, radars, sonar systems, satellite components, computers, signal processors, cameras, centrifuges, fermenters, electron beam systems, fiber optics, GPSs, inertial navigation equipment, vacuum pumps, radiation hardened devices, semiconductors, hydrophones, telecom components. " and sometimes these may be non-intuitive. | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 0:28 | comment | added | MSalters | I strongly, strongly suspect he didn't buy sonar equipment personally and take it from the US to Nigeria. You're unlikely to know this by chance, but sonar equipment is a dual-use military/civilian good. The US Navy really wouldn't like foreign governments to get their hands on the good stuff. Your fiancé would have had an export license from the US Commerce Department. This would also prove to Customs that the equipment is returned, not imported, and no fees can apply. (Not that a random individual is going to get such an export license, though. Too risky.) | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 21:55 | comment | added | Fiksdal | @DianneCruey Hi. How did you meet your fiance? Have you ever met your fiance in person? | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 21:40 | comment | added | Dianne Cruey | Yes he is self employed. He bought sonar equipment for his work. | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 14:40 | comment | added | Dennis | If the person is self employed and he/his business does just have enough money to buy equipment, but not enough money or credit to pay for import tax on the relevant equipment... then that would of course be a different kind of red flag. -- As it is not mentioned in the question that he is self employed I will keep this answer up. | |
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| Sep 28, 2016 at 14:10 | history | answered | Dennis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |