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Hi dear colleagues !

i'm starting this topic biecause i'm VERY annoyed with a problem i cant find a solution to since a very long time.

How to shipp legally knife to USA (i'm from france)

i'v allraddy tryed, onse and the packge has been stopted by the custom without telling me what was wrong ....

I promise som french cheese to the one who tel me the solution <img src=' http://www.americanbladesmith.com/ipboard/public/style_emoticons//biggrin.gi f' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' /> <img src=' http://www.americanbladesmith.com/ipboard/public/style_emoticons//biggrin.gi f' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' /> (if he or she find the legal way to shipp it, french cheese explode )

Thanks SO MUCH by advence !

Best regardes

I just send the knife with regular mail. Declare it as a tool.

No problem.

Sometimes with customs you have to be "creative"......declaring the contents as a "Knife" is a sure way to either get it "lost" <img src=' http://www.americanbladesmith.com/ipboard/public/style_emoticons//dry.gi f' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='<_<' /> or confiscated. As Erik said, "Tool", "Camp Tool", "Culinary Tools", etc. Anything other than "knife"/"Knives".

As was mentioned, what you call it is what draws attention. Use words like cutlery, garden tool, or something basic. When I shipped my knives to the ICCE show, I declared them as cutlery.

Comme on l'a mentionné, ce que vous appelez c'est ce qui attire l'attention. Employez des mots comme la coutellerie, l'outil de jardin, ou quelque chose de base. Quand j'ai expédié mes couteaux au ICCE Show, je les ai déclarés comme coutellerie.

Hi Robin!

I send my JS knives by agency (i´m from Spain), and call them "camping tools", and had no problems.

Hope it will help.

Guillermo.