[ILL-L] Customs value when sending a loan overseas

[Jennifer Block]

At Princeton our shipping department writes NCV (No Commercial Value) on the
customs form to avoid customs charges and so that the material is not held
up in Customs.
 
Best wishes,
 
Jennifer Block
Interlibrary Services Librarian
Princeton University
One Washington Road
Princeton, New Jersey  08544-2098
Phone:  609-258-5704
FAX:     609-258-0441
Ariel IP: 128.112.205.74
Email:  jblock at princeton.edu
 
 

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Lynne Porat
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:23 PM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: RE: [ILL-L] Customs value when sending a loan overseas


Dear Brian,
 
Thank you for raising this issue. We frequently request books from USA
libraries and have encountered problems whenever the lending library writes
their standard replacement charge on the customs form. If there is a value
of anything from $1 to $100, the item is intercepted by our customs who then
charge us an extra couple of $ to release the parcel. When the lending
library writes the value as $0 there are no problems.
We have tried approaching inidividual libraries when this problem occurs,
but so far, to no avail.
 
If a book gets lost, the lending library is entitled to charge us their
replacement cost, no matter what is written on the customs form. 
 
Lynne Porat
 
Head, Interlibrary Loan Team, University of Haifa Library 
Mt. Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel tel. 972-4-8240529 fax 972-4-8249146 email:
porat at univ.haifa.ac.il


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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Brian Miller
Sent: Tue 17-Jul-07 19:33
To: ill-l at webjunction.org
Subject: [ILL-L] Customs value when sending a loan overseas




For libraries that loan materials overseas:

What do you write as the value of the contents on the U.S.P.S.
Customs Declaration form?

Do you write $0 because it is a loan to be returned?
Do you write your standard replacement charge for materials?
Do you write the amount of the fee you charge to loan internationally?
Other?

Thanks in advance for responses.




Brian D. Miller
Lending / Document Delivery Service Coordinator
Ohio State University Interlibrary Services (OSU)
Ackerman Library, Room 584
610 Ackerman Road
Columbus OH 43202
614-688-8456

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