Perhaps everything had become a little bit too easy. In the good old days it was standard practice to ask if the client had a valid import licence before shipping goods out. With no problems for a long time, most shippers including ourselves, had become used to booking and shipping as soon as the schedule was approved with the client without double-checking on the day of shipping that there was an import licence. The lesson from last week is certainly to make sure that the import licence is in the hands of the official importer before the goods leave the port of shipment.

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