US Customs Delay Time?

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[edit 2/21/12] My clothes arrived! They were stuck in customs for 5 days but were not opened in any way. [/edit]

I ordered some clothes from Taiwan (value: ~$100) and they were shipped by EMS. (EMS delivery from Taiwan to US is supposed to be 4-5 days). Tracking says that they arrived in LA on the 10th and have been stuck in customs since then. So to anyone who has had packages stuck in US customs, how long did you have to wait? I searched the Internet some but mostly people who had packages stuck were doing things like...buying $500 handbags or computer parts, marking down the value of items, or shipping vaguely illegal things.



Since I've never had a problem with orders of similar value from China/Japan, I'm curious to see if other people have? I know that US customs can hold items indefinitely, but I'd like to know how long other people have had to wait. The store declared the actual value of the items, and it ships internationally so I doubt they screwed up the customs forms...I really can't think of any other issues and I'm kind of getting paranoid, because I've never had anything held up in customs before.

[edit] I just remembered - when I ordered there was an option to include an itemized packing list (with prices I think), but it was asking for some other specifications and I thought, hey, I'm not reselling these things and I don't feel like trying to figure out what these specifications are supposed to be and then explaining in my super-informal Chinese...so I went with the default option, which was to not include the itemized list. Could this be causing problems? I know that the clothes are all really cheap by US standards, mostly < $10, which could make them look like they've been falsely undervalued :(