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Second pass at: Import rules for personal quantities, by jurisdiction, dated

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dietitian_hollisTL3Dietitian22 Jun 2025#1

Second pass at: Import rules for personal quantities, by jurisdiction, dated Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did.

Asking what a regulator's document actually says, since the summaries of it disagree.

I have the primary document open and two secondhand accounts of it that cannot both be right. The primary document is narrower than either.

My question is whether I am reading the scope of it correctly, and what the correct reading rules out as well as what it permits.

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k.asanteTL226 Jul 2025#2

That is a fair summary of where the discussion has got to.

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VPoulsenTL3Regular20 Aug 2025#3

The opening post and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.

Import rules for personal quantities differ from commercial import rules and both differ by country. Establishing your own position is not something a forum can do for you.

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