You have 1000 kilograms of clean, fresh water in a single IBC container in Sydney at the Opera house. You will be paid 1 million dollars if you can deliver it to Los Angeles McArthur Park within 3 weeks, or 21 days, or 504 hours. You can split the water into as many containers as you want, and the IBC doesn’t need to make it to LA, just the water inside. If you deliver 2000 bottles each containing 500ml of undiluted, clean, fresh water, or like, 99% of it to account for evaporation and some spillage, that counts as a win. You can assume that any partial water deliveries that remain in Sydney or arrive in LA won’t be stolen in your absence so you don’t need to hire guards. There are no consequences for failing, but if you do fail or succeed, any money you spend on the project, you don’t get refunded. Normal consequences for breaking laws apply.
How do you do it, or do you even bother trying?
It might take a bit longer, since this is a pretty weird cargo with an even weirder story behind it.
Still, you should be able to clear it well within the states time
Nah. It’s a very basic checklist type stuff. No one cares about the story, they care about clearing cargo.
Are you trying me that if I import “water, 1000L, bulk”, and someone at customs sees it, it’ll be fine?
Yeah. Why wouldn’t it be? You can import water to the US. HTS 2201.90.0000 covers the import tariffs, so it depends on the value determined by the importer what your pay. Companies import bottled water all the time. Fiji water is all imported.
This seriously the global logistics version of asking if it’s OK to bring your own bottled sparkling water to a fancy restaurant. It’s stupid and will be pointless, and you might pay a corking fee on top of it all, but you very much can, and it’s not even a funny story or cool for anyone involved. It’s just an odd, smalltime decision.
Yeah, I’d expect them to test it, find it true, and clear it.
If asked you can just say that you are participating in a scavenger hunt for a rich weirdo.
Sure, but not like, within one day.