When is the last day your consignment may arrive?
Customs won’t clear food with less than 60% of its shelf life left, or three months — whichever is less. The answer is a date you can put in a contract.
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Send on WhatsApp too“Whichever is less” is read wrongly both ways.On a two-year product, three months governs — the window is wider than most importers assume. On a sixty-day product, 60% is 36 days — far tighter than anyone plans for.
FSS (Import) Regulations 2017, reg. 5(6); shelf life measured from the label, reg. 2(w)
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