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- From: babu@wpi.WPI.EDU (Babu Gopalakrishnan)
- Newsgroups: rec.travel
- Subject: Re: Customs (bringing thing out and into the US)
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 06:42:51 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- Message-ID: <1e7ftbINNe37@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
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- cjp8b@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Chris Penington) writes:
-
- >>
- >>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?
-
- > 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.
-
- Um I don't know about this. If the passenger is flying
- in from places like Dubai, Singapore or Hong Kong he may
- well have procured cheaper electronic goods and pirated
- (cheap) CDs. But usually the amount of electronic goods
- one can buy abroad for use in the US is quite limited
- since you use 110 volts, NTSC, and different VCR tape
- speeds here.
-
- BABU
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