HAT — Harvest An Tai

Case files

Regulated consignments, cleared.

Six consignments, each turning on a licence that had to exist before the goods moved. Clients, including internationally known research institutions, are not named.

  1. Hazardous liquid cargo prepared for compliant import handling

    Hazardous chemicals · Import

    Crude oil for a buyer without chemical registration

    The buyer held no hazardous chemicals registration and could not lawfully appear on the declaration. We imported through our own licensed entity and added the substance to our own registered inventory.

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  2. Laboratory materials prepared for controlled transport

    Special articles · Import

    Pathology slides for clinical diagnosis

    High-risk special articles for a single patient, where the applicant had no declaration account and the shipment was time-critical to a patient diagnosis.

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  3. Laboratory mice resting inside a ventilated transport enclosure in a controlled facility

    Life sciences · Laboratory animals · Import

    Live SPF laboratory mice

    A risk category 2 biological material where two rounds of inspection, run in sequence, would have taken longer than the animals could safely wait.

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  4. Sealed jars and specimen bags containing soil samples prepared for research import review

    Special articles · Import

    Soil samples for university research

    Soil is prohibited from entry into China and can be imported only under a special approval route, through three levels of customs review.

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  5. Sample vials boxed in divided racks for export

    Special articles · Biological samples · Export

    Human blood samples for overseas testing

    A medical institution with no import/export registration needed to send high-risk biological samples to an overseas laboratory, on a timeline set by the stability of the samples.

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  6. Plant products prepared for controlled international movement

    Plant germplasm · Export

    Wheat germplasm for an international research collaboration

    Crop germplasm is a controlled resource, and the research institute sending it held none of the registrations a commercial exporter would already have.

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Operational evidence

Consignment photographs

Photographs from consignments we have handled. Clients and shippers are not identified.

Three insulated hard transit cases stacked and labelled for refrigerated carriage
Insulated hard cases marked for refrigerated carriage.
A time and temperature sensitive label on a carton reading plus 2 to plus 8 degrees Celsius
A label calling for +2°C to +8°C for the whole journey.
Laboratory sample tubes with blue caps, numbered by hand, beside a hand-written note
Sample tubes numbered by hand, with the written tally.
A laser treatment system on its castors, partly wrapped in bubble film
A laser treatment system, part-wrapped, out of its crate.
A circuit assembly seated in pink anti-static foam inside its shipping box
A circuit assembly seated in anti-static foam.
Three cork stoppers mounted and labelled on a black presentation board
Cork stopper samples mounted on a presentation board.
A stretch-wrapped pallet of beer cartons with one carton open at the top
A wrapped pallet of beer, one carton opened.
A blue and white porcelain dish with a dragon pattern, laid on white cloth
A porcelain dish, unwrapped on cloth.
Two compact electronic units laid out on a stainless-steel inspection surface
Compact electronic units laid out for inspection.

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