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- From: cjp8b@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Chris Penington)
- Subject: Re: Customs (bringing thing out and into the US)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.052107.27738@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1992Nov16.010427.1879@informix.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:21:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.010427.1879@informix.com> billd@informix.com (William Daul) writes:
- >From a Naive Traveller:
- >
- >I want to take a small radio and a couple of CDs out of the US.
- >How will customs know I already owned them when I return?
-
- Ummm, because:
-
- 1. They'll read your mind? :)
- 2. Because where your customs declaration asks you if you are
- bringing more than $400 of goods acquired overseas into the country you
- will (truthfully) say no or you will (truthfully) list the values of
- the goods you acquired overseas and have KEPT THE RECEIPTS.
- 3. Because (if you're really bothered by this) you'll take
- receipts with you showing where they were bought in this country.
- 4. Because they'll look so beaten up that you couldn't
- possibly have just purchased them overseas.
- 5. Because they'll be packed away in your carry on bag and you
- won't be waving them in the customs inspectors face along with
- thousands of dollars of other electronic equipment, saying "Look at
- me, look at me!" :)
- 6. Because the customs inspectors know that consumer
- electronics prices in the US are amongst the cheapest in the world,
- and you'd have to be nuts to buy stuff overseas that you could get
- more cheaply and with a better warranty in the US.
-
- Chris
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