Dr.BariatricHTX said:

My experience ordering cross-border ordering internationally: I've ordered from an Indian manufacturer.

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions. What is a personal-import allowance in one country is a controlled-import offence in another.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.

Dr.AddMedPHL said:

Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.

Following on from mike_nyc — and this may be the naive question:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.

Coming back a few months on. It held. Nothing dramatic to report, which is the report.