Noticed Wood & Paper Products Not Showing Up For Sale To The US
I was enrolled into the eIS last month. Thought I would give it a try. First 2 weeks were great with multiple sales to the US & other countries. The next 2 weeks no sales. Just noticed that most of my decorative wood items such as jewelry & trinket boxes & ornaments are not showing up for sale to the US. Also paper goods such as vintage dinner napkins are also not showing. Is there some kind of ban on those products to the US? No other countries are affected.
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2nd-time-around-jewelry
OP5 months agoI am now noticing that some of my listings for plastic items such as Tupperware are not showing up for sale to the US. I also think some metal items are also not showing up. Is there some kind of ban on those products now? Where can you find a list of items not shipping to the US? It seems to change all the time.
recped
·5 months agoThe products of wood or metal are not banned per se, the issue is that complex customs processing is required. EIS is simply not capable of doing that so they do their "best?" to reject any items that they think might require that treatment.
Much of the filtering is old style filters like blocking entire Categories or simple keyword exclusions. Now this is set to hyper level using AI, no doubt leading to a lot of "collateral damage".
The Tariffs on steel / aluminum and wood products are not directly related to the current 10% on everything that currently applies. This is why the importation process is different from most everything else.
mandicrafts
·6 months agoYeah I noticed that about wooden items at the outset of EIS and questioned it. I didn't get an answer. None of my Baribocraft woodenware shows EIS US shipping. A wooden Christmas ornament does not show EIS US, nor carved wood ones, or a cigar box.
But a resin figurine on a "wood stand" shows EIS US.
My paper mache items show EIS US, and my First Day Covers (stamps on envelopes) show EIS US.
All of my pewter items were also not showing EIS US, but now a few are if they are purely decorative. Only ones that could be interpreted as "can touch food" still don't show it, even if they are a collector spoon not meant for use, but it is because pewter is made with lead.
transtraders
·6 months agoNot sure this helps, but I just sold a vintage polly pocket puzzle (made out of cardboard) to a USA customer through EIS.