Barriers to entry
13 September 2012
Purchasers need to know what powers the authorities have to bar imports, as refusals can be expensive. Alan Ma looks at the courts’ approach in two recent cases
It would be every importer’s nightmare, if not disaster, were goods to be rejected by the authorities at the port of entry. It may be possible to salvage something by re-exporting the goods, rather than destroying them, but there would still be the question of satisfying customers - and obligations - further down the supply chain.
In such a situation, every...