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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 9628245" data-attributes="member: 4348">Hmmm.  Let me think of another way to say the same thing.There are people at the Dock that inspect things and levy taxes that work for the Federal Government.  They normally work for Customs and Border Protection, or are Border Agents.  They also work with other enforcement agencies. They see that you have not paid your tariffs/taxes or whatever (in this case, they also do all sorts of other things).  They either send out a notice or a call informing whoever owns the item of the problem (for example, let's says someone had illegal drugs in their shipment, that probably would warrant a call and maybe even a visit to their office).For larger companies, this is usually received or gotten by someone either at the front desk at the shipping department or on a special line dedicated to these things (along with other shipping problems).  If a problem is too big to solve there, or warrants higher approval, it gets elevated to their manager or the next upper level.  If it's too big for them, it gets elevated once again.These calls have started to go out and hit companies recently.  In regards to books, some of these calls got another call later saying that they were in error.  At times, it was after payment for the initial charge had already gone out and paperwork filled and filed.  Things are basically in chaos because there does not seem any rhyme or reason at this point behind what is or isn't being called, why tariffs are being levelled on items ordered months ago...etc...etc...etc.If it is a smaller business, someone may be doing all of this on their own.  For example, I have some relatives that run a publishing business currently.  There are only three of them.  They would be the ones that deal with receiving the calls on this and dealing with this stuff on a more personal level.In addition, there is a video posted in this thread with the individual discussing the Game Market situation talking about this exact thing happening to them.  It's a few pages back.  If I remember, they got a call as well telling them that Tariffs were past due and that they needed to pay them immediately or their shipment was going to be destroyed.   This left them with a problematic payment that they needed to get paid off.  They then got a later call (it was unclear to me whether they lost the money they paid, they didn't pay it before they got the next call, or if they got a refund on what they paid) that rescinded the prior call.It's a mess from what I see.  Hopefully, though a LOT more wordy, that explains it far more clearly??</blockquote>

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