Well, I don't much about "legal" issues per se (CE, international certification,
etc), but you may need to make your customers aware of certain things like
shipping costs, exchange rate, VAT (Value Added Tax), duty, and such so that
they do not get a big surprise when they receive the merchandise (oh BTW,
that'll be an extra 100 quid).

I have sent my non PIC products overseas without much problems to various
individual customer, and haven't had any problems with dealers either (fairly
small volumes).  But, I suspect that if you start shipping product in large
volumes, you had better have an international certification of some sort, or it
may bite ya in the @ss (i.e. products held up in foreign customs indefinitely,
refusal of product by foreign customs and shipped back on your dime, possible
legal action, although they'd be hard pressed to get you into a court.)

I doubt if a PIC would qualify as "advanced technology" per se, but you can
contact your local customs office to "maybe" find out.  Also look on search
engines for "government & customs & export", and you should find something
useful.

If your selling only 10 to 50 units a month, I guess I wouldn't worry much about
it.  If your doing 500 to 1000 or more units a month, you may need to think
about international certification (spendy).  I think anyone trying to sue you
from overseas would be hard pressed to do so, as the costs involved would
prohibitive unless someone is severely injured or died, and the foriegn
goverment got involved.

At any rate, any product you send overseas should be tested thourghly two or
three times, to make dammed sure it works right (nothing worse than a
malfuctioning product that requires high shipping costs to have repaired).

Sincerely,
The other bob 8^]


-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Rubin <dan@DESIGNDEVICES.COM>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Friday, June 21, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: [OT]: Shipping PIC products from US abroad?


>Hello All,
>
>Not sure what happened to the subject on that last post... sorry that is
>annoying!
>
>I have received a lot of requests to ship out some of my products
>internationally. Most of what I sell is PIC related. I have a web site  but
>I do most of my business on Ebay.
>
>Does anyone out there have any information on the additional costs/risk of
>shipping items such as PIC microcontroller based products from the US to
>other countries? Are there specific export restrictions to certain
>countries? What are the risk associated with people filing bogus law suits
>and such?
>
>Please excuse the ignorance I have never thought about shipping abroad
>until now.
>
>Thanks
>- Dan
>
>
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