Sorry I haven't responded to your comments. I didn't get notice that anyone had replied, even though it was supposedly in my settings. My experience with FWS before I let my permit lapse some 12 years ago was essentially the same as "Jshuey." I got assorted butterflies and moths, of a bunc...

When I say “recently” in the title, I mean within about 12+ years since I last held an import permit. At that time the permit was required, but a new policy required that you also had to use a broker to clear shipments, which added so much to the cost that I let my permit expire and didn’t import an...