Hi everybody, while talking to va international express services who will bring my apprentice challenge entry from germany to Canada, I was told that I cant send the cds as a document, I have to send it as a “product”, and for products I may need to pay customs, maybe, they dont know exatly how the duty (dunno if this is the right word ) will handle cds when checking at the airport.

So as I want to avoid any problems with my challenge entry, I would like to know how others participating in the challenge and living outside Canada will handle this, or what they were told concerning this.

Thanks in advance
Achim

This stuff is such a hassle. I'm on the other side of the problem(living in Canada shipping out), but perhaps this may be useful info. Have you discussed with them calling it a “demo”? That's really what it is. I do know that when sending via Fedex there's two things we need to put on the form:

1. Not obscene(although I can't say whether this applies to yours )
2. Not for resale

The latter point indicates that it's *not* a product, not something that will be sold to someone. This is a critical thing for us - it's the difference between sending a work-in-progress and sending an application install disk. Makes a big difference.

Hopefully this might be helpful.

Cheers,

J.C.

I just stick it in an envelope and label it “documents” - they don't usually squeeze the pack to check it!
I've sent at least six cds this way..
Mark Creer

Thanks a lot for your responses

Achim

Well Fed Ex is not list Non Commerical or Not for Resale. I will put that on there though if I can. I was thinking of entering it under the category of Fine Art! Because its not commerical and well it is Art just not traditional art! The only other category I was looking at was CD. What did someone else choose for going from the US to Canada.

Cheers,
Nate Nesler

I ended up putting:

Demo CD, not for resale, no pornography.

I was surprized about the no pornography suggestion, but apparently they always put that on here.

Everythink worked fine. I put “not for resale” on it and had to write an proforma invoice. Price was twice as high as sending it as a document, but it arrived one day later without any problems.