**Service route: **Tianjin to San Francisco, USA;
**Service mode: **door-to-door moving one-stop service;
**Case overview: **Ms. Li entrusted Hipo International to ship her furniture items from her home in Tianjin to San Francisco, USA by sea.

Ms. Li, who lives in Tianjin, was recently transferred to San Francisco for work, and she was ready to move to the U.S. with her whole family. After the relevant procedures were completed, she was ready to pack most of her furniture and personal belongings in Tianjin and ship them to San Francisco by sea, so that she could save a lot of money on the cost of purchasing in the U.S., which is not cheap in the U.S. After all, she decided to use Hipo to carry out the ocean shipping business after reading our cross-country moving cases and service introduction with our business staff. Ms. Li searched online to Xipu International Moving, after reading our cross-country moving cases and service introduction, and business personnel to communicate their own situation, decided to Xipu to carry the sea moving business, after all, professional things should be left to the professionals to do, they will also save a lot of heartache.

If you move from Tianjin to San Francisco by sea, the price will be much cheaper, but it will take longer. Plus the various handling during transportation will inevitably produce bumps, then, to ensure that the transportation of goods safety at this time appears to be crucial! Ms. Lee's cross-country moving, the choice of Hipo's door-to-door one-stop double-clearance service, on the day of pickup, Hipo's packing team will bring packing materials to the door to fine-tune the packing of items, each item will be strictly in accordance with the standard operation of cross-country moving, and in the outer packaging of each item, will be posted on the label (room name, fragile) and write the product name, the whole process does not require the hands of Ms. Lee, you need to only need to Ms. Li did not need to do anything, she only needed to watch the master's operation. The following is the packing scene on that day:

The United States as one of the developed countries, in the world has a pivotal international position, education, health care and other resources are also leading the international community, also has a better social life environment, these are attracting more and more people to move to the United States. So, if you are just ready to go to the United States of America's new immigrants, need to pay attention to what matters?

U.S. Customs Duty-Free Policies for Immigrants Moving to the United States

1. The U.S. government provides that new immigrants or citizens residing overseas may bring into or bring back to the United States, duty-free, articles of personal use and personal property owned and used for more than 12 months in their place of residence.
2. U.S. Customs requires that brand-new items or items used for less than 12 months be declared on the Personal Baggage Entry Application Form (Form 3299), after which Customs will impose duties based on the type and value of the item.
   3, due to anti-terrorism needs, all items entering the U.S. must be declared to the U.S. Customs declaration system in the ship offshore 48 hours to declare AMS, in the ship offshore 24 hours before the declaration of ISF, such as the declaration of the delay may produce a maximum of 5,000 U.S. dollars in fines.

Precautions for immigrants moving to the United States

1. The U.S. Customs for immigrants moving, basically no items to arrive at the time limit, as long as you hold a visa or green card in line with the provisions of the private goods can be processed for customs clearance.
2. U.S. Customs for ordinary brand-new items tariffs of about 6%, but for brand-new textiles, bedding furniture, etc. will be levied anti-dumping duties, usually about 30-45%. Of course, private luggage in the reasonable scope of self-use appropriate with some brand new items, customs often do not levy tariffs.
3. The U.S. railroad system is very developed, with a large number of inland ports, but arriving at the inland city of the goods, most of them will choose to handle customs clearance in Los Angeles and New York, because the basic port of the clearance time given will be much longer than the inland port.