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Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Info request re: crystals and customs for same while cruising
From: Jim Townsend (jt_lotus@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu Nov 28 2002 - 08:04:34 EST
Rick
I have pondered the same question at times. I hope you get some constructive feedback. I seem to be comming to the conclusion that such a venture is highly risky. Probably --- you could ship a few pieces of "artwork" and not run into any hassles, BUT if any public official in any of the countries involved had a bad hair day, your boat could be siezed, you could be detained. Hiring a lawyer in a foriegn port??? The problems go on and on. Just too much risks for a few hunderd dollars profit. I would guess that is why most of the "product" that you see out of cruisers is intellectual in nature, books, some computer programing etc.
Question for the board? What hobbies, crafts, artistic outlets do you cruising people employ to keep idle hands busy. ( And yes, I am sure some of the salty old sailors will say taking care of the boat is a full time job.) I consider such activities to be an important mental health release. With the constraints of limited space on a boat, I have considered wood carving, leather work, knotwork, photography(just shooting not processing) and painting.
JT
Rick Bradshaw <rbradsh2@XXX.XXX She is thinking about doing
something having to do with crystals. She is starting to look for
sources of crystals, presumably all kinds, that are as close to the
mine as possible and still be legal. (Also, I don't think we are
looking at acquiring precious stones either. At least I know I'm not.
Haven't won the lottery yet.) Going down to the local rock shop and
paying the commercial mark up isn't an option. That might mean that
we have to find out about import/export stuff as well. Anyone out
there have any leads or other information she might be able to use?
I'm not sure if she has done a Web search or not. However, if it is
like most things these days, the search criteria brings back a
"zillion" hits most of which are garbage and takes another
"half-zillion" hours to pick through. Your direct experience would be
a much better source.
On a related note, if any of you have purchased things like this in
countries other than your native county, in our case the U.S., how
has customs treated you when you returned? I would presume you would
need to pay duty on it. If you "process" it in any way to increase
its value after the purchase but before returning, did that have a
bearing on the duty?
How has customs in a third country treated you when you passed
through and brought things like this into their country and worked on
them while there or just passed through? If you sold something you
used these items to "build/construct/create" and mailed(?)/shipped it
to another country while in a third country, was it a problem when
you went to leave; i.e., did they inventory everything and get upset
if something wasn't there when you left or try to tax anything in any
way if it wasn't there? I sure it would vary quite a lot from country
to country and also to type of item so I am just interested in
generalities at this time. I'm not talking about acquiring masses of
cigars, rum, or anything like that that would be consumed by the crew
over time.
For a _very_ hypothetical example, if, while cruising, you bought a
chunk of rock, say for the sake of illustration only, granite, in
Thailand, found a piece of driftwood in the Philippines, broke up
that granite into small pieces while enroute to the next port,
mounted a piece of it onto the driftwood while stopping off in
Tahiti, and then sold the completed project to someone in the U.S. or
Australia perhaps over the Internet shipping it from New Zealand, or
selling it to a "local" shop in Chile or the U.S. when you got there.
Has your experience proven there to be an insurmountable mountain of
paperwork and fees to wade through or would it be a relatively simple
process? Or would anyone along the way even care? (I know, _that_
would probably be too much to even hope for.)
Thanks for any experiential information you may care to impart.
Rick
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