The ICE failure rate has recently been put on record by Peter Tompa in his report of what Wayne Sayles said at the recent CPAC public hearing about the case of the Baltimore illegal coin import stunt ("Customs Test Case") discussed on this blog a number of times. The scandal deepens:
The ACCG imported the coins in April 2009. ACCG’s Customs Broker had to tell Customs that the coins were subject to potential restrictions. On the 5th attempt, Customs seized the coins, [...]So it took five attempts to get US customs at Baltimore (so not exactly hillbilly country) to recognise there was something here they should even look at. So four out of five shipments would get through? That's eighty percent. That is eighty percent of items exported without proper documentation of the handful of countries which US ICE is (supposedly) keeping an eye open for. The UK, home to ten thousand metal-detector equipped collectable-seeking emptiers of the archaeological record is not even on that list. Neither is Egypt, or Bulgaria or France or Romania.
So what happened to the illegally imported coins the ACCG got through US customs prior to the fifth shipment being seized? Were they sold by an ACCG dealer on V-Coins or eBay?
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"Chippindale's Law" strikes again...
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