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Re: BRINGING ALCOHOL HOME
[Re: COACHIE]
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06/10/2015 09:46 PM
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Agreed, I think it is one liter per person, unless it is locally made stuff, like Ma Dou Dou. Regardless, you can bring back as much as you like (for personal use) and just declare it and the worst that can happen is that you will have to pay duty, which is something like 10%. Just declare it regardless and usually they don't charge you duty. If you DON'T declare it, could be big legal problems though.
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Re: BRINGING ALCOHOL HOME
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06/10/2015 10:31 PM
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We have brought back 10 bottles, five per person, and had no trouble clearing customs. They asked if we had any alcohol, and we said ten bottles, and they just waved us through. The biggest problem we had was getting ten bottles in the suitcases and still staying under the airlines 50 pound weight limit per person per suitcase. Paying the extra baggage fee defeats the purpose of buying the alcohol there.
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Re: BRINGING ALCOHOL HOME
[Re: Snorkeller]
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06/11/2015 12:56 PM
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You know, I never thought those rules applied to when you were outside of the country. Could be I was wrong though...
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Re: BRINGING ALCOHOL HOME
[Re: Snorkeller]
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06/11/2015 03:42 PM
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Yeah, yesh. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Laugh.gif" alt="" />
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Re: BRINGING ALCOHOL HOME
[Re: o2bnsxm]
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06/11/2015 03:51 PM
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o2bnsxm said: Each adult 21 years old or older can bring back one liter of alcohol, and if it is made in the Islands, one additional liter. Talking federal rules, by law, you can bring back one liter per person duty free -- more under rules specific to a particular location such as VI, Puerto Rico, etc. - as most know, you can bring back more than one liter per person and the agents are very unlikely to make you pay duty if you have few bottles of wine instead of one. Most states restrict you to one gallon (and theoretically state law is enforced by feds) to bring in -- but one gallon per person is more than most people would be bringing in - one gallon is almost exactly five bottles of wine of 750ml size. If you have more than one gallon of alcohol per person you might cause a customs agent to take interest in you, but I have known people off cruise ships to be bringing in a case of wine without being asked to pay any duty - luck of draw on that. Main thing, as said before, is to declare what you have - don't risk getting caught with undeclared stuff just to save a few bucks duty. I can add that we were returning from a Baltic cruise last Saturday, June 6, coming home through Dulles, and we declared a necklace that we got for about $3,000 - the agent thanked us "for being honest" - told us that he was not going to make us deal with paying any duty - which wasn't much anyway - and let us go. There probably are people on here that have brought back jewelry worth more that have not had to actually pay any duty when bringing it into the US.
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