Does anyone knows about wine export permits.
What I want is to purchase wine from California winery and export to Asia.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

On Apr 25, 11:46 am, "Peter" > wrote:
> Does anyone knows about wine export permits.
> What I want is to purchase wine from California winery and export to Asia.
> Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

If you buy from only one winery, first check to see if they will ship
the wine for you. If they will not or you want to ship more than one
winery wine, try some shipping service that will do the paper work for
you. Before you do this, consider that that usual standard shipping
methods can take up to several weeks, and the wine may be exposed to
excessive temperatures. Large temperature controlled containers
sometimes are used for large commercial shipments, but I doubt if you
can find such temperature controlled shipment for small private
shipments. The only safe method of shipment often is by express air.
This is very expensive. It may cost around US$100 for 3 bottles
between the US and Europe and even more between the US and many Asian
nations or Australia. You sometimes can select a time of the year when
the wine is not likely to be exposed to excessive temperatures
anywhere along the way via ship, but you are taking a risk. In any
cases, the wine needs to be very well packed in foam plastic
containers to help prevent sudden temperature changes. You also need
to know the laws of the receiving country. In many cases, a small
private package can be sent and arrive unopened. In other cases
detailed customs inspection in the receiving country is required. If
you use UPS, DHL, or Federal Express for international express
shipment, see their web sites for details concerning shipment. I
believe some of these services can provide the necessary paper work
for international shipping in some cases. In any case a commercial
invoice and a declaration of value usually must be attached to the
package at the minimum. There may be custom fees for some countries,
and not for others, for small private shipments. When there are custom
fees, they sometimes can be prepaid by the shipper and sometimes not.

Thanks for your advices. It seem to me that less winery pick up will take
less times to prevent exposed to excessive timperatures and that is
something I will take note.
The buyer 's import is taking care and there is somthing I am more concent
is the export permit. Does all winery has export permit? If not can there be
a problem?
What is the export permit mean?