Some weeks ago I wrote to ask about the legality of pipe tobacco shipments from Europe. The case in point was my interest in resuming purchases from Synjeco, the Swiss company run by Daniel Schneider. He withdrew selling to the United States a good number of months ago due to what he believed was legislation preventing such sales.
The information that I got from folks on this site was mixed in terms of any certainty about the law on this and so I suggested that Daniel use legal counsel to find out what the law allowed since he has lost a good number of American customers, and we customers have lost a fabulous tobacconist.
This is what he wrote to me today:
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Dear Bob,
Thank you so much for your message!!
There are two separate things to consider:
1. VISA and MasterCard don't accept transactions for Tobacco goods from US Customers, since 2007
2. The PACT-ACT is not clearly telling that "Pipe-Tobacco" is allowed and only Cigarettes, Snuff and Cigars are foridden: I tried to get more information from the US-Embassy here in Switzerland and also from the FDA directly in US, but nobody answered me until now.
There is at all not any "unwillingness" to deal with US Pipesmoker friends, but nobody will take the risk to become "criminal" and be arrested the next time he is landing on an US airport
I think it can be helpful to post this on the forum, perhaps some lawyer in the forum can get an "official" document from FDA, which explains that Pipe Tobacco shipments are allowed. This could afterwards be add (as a copy) to every single shipment, avoiding unknowledge of Postmasters if necessary...
Sorry if this seems a little bit confusing, but I don't want that our pipesmoker friends have the impression that we are not considering them.
Best greetings to you and all forum -members,
Daniel - Synjeco, Switzerland
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SO--if anyone on this forum can help him figure out the legality of this, that would be great--and I assure you that you would be helping yourself as well as him--his handblended stuff is of the gods.
Bob
The information that I got from folks on this site was mixed in terms of any certainty about the law on this and so I suggested that Daniel use legal counsel to find out what the law allowed since he has lost a good number of American customers, and we customers have lost a fabulous tobacconist.
This is what he wrote to me today:
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Dear Bob,
Thank you so much for your message!!
There are two separate things to consider:
1. VISA and MasterCard don't accept transactions for Tobacco goods from US Customers, since 2007
2. The PACT-ACT is not clearly telling that "Pipe-Tobacco" is allowed and only Cigarettes, Snuff and Cigars are foridden: I tried to get more information from the US-Embassy here in Switzerland and also from the FDA directly in US, but nobody answered me until now.
There is at all not any "unwillingness" to deal with US Pipesmoker friends, but nobody will take the risk to become "criminal" and be arrested the next time he is landing on an US airport
I think it can be helpful to post this on the forum, perhaps some lawyer in the forum can get an "official" document from FDA, which explains that Pipe Tobacco shipments are allowed. This could afterwards be add (as a copy) to every single shipment, avoiding unknowledge of Postmasters if necessary...
Sorry if this seems a little bit confusing, but I don't want that our pipesmoker friends have the impression that we are not considering them.
Best greetings to you and all forum -members,
Daniel - Synjeco, Switzerland
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SO--if anyone on this forum can help him figure out the legality of this, that would be great--and I assure you that you would be helping yourself as well as him--his handblended stuff is of the gods.
Bob
