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- Newsgroups: rec.travel
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!opencon!giand
- From: giand@opencon.com (Deepak S. Gianchandani)
- Subject: Re: Customs (bringing thing out and into the US)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.003309.26206@opencon.com>
- Followup-To: rec.travel
- Sender: giand@opencon.com
- Organization: OpenCon Systems, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov16.010427.1879@informix.com> <1992Nov16.052107.27738@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1e7ftbINNe37@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:33:09 GMT
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- In article <1e7ftbINNe37@bigboote.WPI.EDU> babu@wpi.WPI.EDU (Babu Gopalakrishnan) writes:
- >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.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- ( Sorry to waste Bandwidth, I should ignore this, but I can't.)
-
- What are you talking about, Ofcourse if the DAMMED system is
- different it would have different speeds, but the VHS Tapes
- are the same and can be interchanged -- i.e. What is recorded
- on it might not be viewable back on your system (NTSC) but the
- physical tape is the SAME. Make sure you know what you are talking
- about before you post it (Yes, I know there are VHS tapes they say E
- for European and T for NTSC, but the actual physical frame of the tape
- is VHS and is standard throughout the world).
-
- >
- > BABU
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