a number of FIllipino dealers on the same auction site you probably
refer to now do it. When you visit there, you need to (or very much
should) get a similar permit to take shells out of the country... The
permit is attached to the package when it comes, so it is a real
expense you can see. I would imagine that any who dont ask for the
payment are willing to absorb the cost themselves and/or have built it
into the prices they ask.

I would further assume that if you can afford the prices of the
auction shells and postage, you can handle 4 euros.




On 5/5/14, Franck Frydman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
> A Filipino specimen shell dealers asks me to pay a 4 euros BFAR (Bureau of
> Fisheries and Aquatic Resources) export tax to ship me seashells.
> So far I have never heard about it and no other Filipino shell dealer
> seems
> to asks for it. Moreover it seems that this tax only concerns fish,
> shrimps
> etc. so has anybody ever hear about such a taxing for specimen shells in
> the
> Philippines?
>
> Best regards,
> Franck Frydman
>
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