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This page exists because buyers ask, and because a straight answer is more useful than silence. We do not ship to Syria.
Syrian taste sits squarely in the Levantine tradition — transparent and honey amber, mid diameters, restrained furniture — and Damascus was for a long time one of the significant regional trading centres for amber. None of that changes our position on supply.
Syria is subject to sanctions programmes that our compliance obligations require us to observe, and we observe them. We do not accept orders for delivery into Syria, and we do not structure orders in a way designed to obscure a Syrian destination. A supplier willing to do the second is telling you something about how they will treat your programme generally.
We supply buyers established in jurisdictions where trade is permitted, on ordinary terms. What those buyers subsequently do within their own legal obligations is their responsibility and their compliance question, not something we advise on or assist with.
Sanctions regimes change. Rather than leave a question unanswered, we state where we stand and review it as the picture changes. If our position changes, this page changes with it.
It means we screen destinations and counterparties before accepting an order, we decline shipments to Syria, and we do not accept structures whose purpose is to obscure a destination. It also means we will not advise on how anyone else might approach the market, because that advice is exactly what a compliance programme exists to prevent.
A supplier willing to route around a sanctions regime for one client is a supplier who will treat another client’s confidentiality, material disclosure or specification with the same flexibility. Buyers occasionally read a firm no as unhelpfulness. In our experience it is the single most useful thing a supplier can tell you about how they will behave when it is your interests at stake.
Damascus was a significant regional trading centre for amber for a very long time and Syrian taste sits squarely in the Levantine tradition — transparent and honey tones, mid diameters, restrained furniture. We record that here because it is true and because the commercial history is worth knowing. It does not change our position on supply.
No. We do not accept orders for delivery into Syria.
Not as a way around our position. We do not structure orders to obscure a destination.
If the applicable regimes change, we will review our position and update this page.
Not as a way around our position. We screen destinations and counterparties and decline structures whose purpose is to obscure a destination.
Because buyers ask and a straight answer is more useful than silence. It also tells you how we will behave when it is your interests at stake.
Send the volume, the channel and the delivery date. We reply within one business day with a specification and an honest timeline.