Legal Question in Consumer Law in Florida
import and export laws
can an exporter hold a customers shipment for lack of payment/
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: import and export laws
Yes if you haven't paid it doesn't belong to you.
Re: import and export laws
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Yes. If the exporter has not been paid, it has no responsibility to ship the goods nor must it deliver the goods to the designated party. This is most probably covered in the terms of the agreement between the exporter and the customer.
Scott R. Jay, Esq.
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