Can dried sea cucumber (Chinese medicine) from China come through the mail?

Although sometimes you might get away with a small amount in the mail, most of the time they check and find out and stop you from doing that.

For more information, you can check out this URL
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/clearing_goods/agri_prod_inus.xml
dried sea cucumber belongs to agricultural products.

Do they your mail? Yes. Voice of America reported by that they found some illegal "bird flu" medicine in the mail. ( http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.voanews.com/chinese/archive/2005-12/w2005-12-20-voa55.cfm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%25E7%25BE%258E%25E5%259C%258B%25E6%25B5%25B7%25E9%2597%259C%25E6%25B2%2592%25E6%2594%25B6%25E9%2583%25B5%25E5%25AF%2584%26hl%3Den%26hs%3D3gp%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official )

Meanwhile, with proper import and custom procedures, dried sea cucumber can be imported into the US so you can buy them in the Chinese super markets or herbal stores.

Where do you live in the US?

Sea Cucumber Usa

Take the cleaned sea cucumber and wrap in a clay mixture. Bake at 450F for a two hours. Carefully crack the clay, remove sea cucumber and throw in trash. Eat the clay becuase it would taste better.

It is illegal to bring foreign substances into US, but check with customs and they will answer.

check with us custums they can send you a list and answer yur questions

You can buy them in Chinese herb stores, assuming you're actually near one