Every trophy shipment that comes in is on a case by case basis depending on the inspector’s mood that day. There were threads last year about thousands of dollars in storage fees at DFW with a broker who didn’t have a bonded warehouse. My Cameroon shipment cleared Chicago maybe 6 months ago containing a warthog and a LDE. I think that would be one of the more difficult shipments to process. I paid for 1 day of storage then it waited on inspectors In coppersmiths warehouse for a few weeks.Thread 'this sucks' https://www.africahunting.com/threads/this-sucks.80943/
Recent longish thread related to clearing through Chicago. (Possibly complicated by a warthog.)
Mine is "Other", but I use DFW.
It means they have a warehouse approved by USDA USFW to be stored in while waiting on inspection rather than staying in airline storage and paying storage fees to airlineDumb question, What does "bonded warehouse" mean?
That makes sense. Thank you!It means they have a warehouse approved by USDA USFW to be stored in while waiting on inspection rather than staying in airline storage and paying storage fees to airline
Exactly.Safari Speciality Importers.
They are on the WWW
Give Wyatt a call
I cleared two shipments with them in 2021 and 2022. They went fine. However the shipment in 2022 was the first time customs ever had to call me to get in contact with the broker which I thought was odd. Then some negative reports appeared here shortly after that during some personnel changes. I made the decision to go to coppersmiths because I feel they are much more stable and have more resources available in event of an issue.Gentleman, any opinion on " Trophy Shippers " performance?