Bringing goods in from US and customs...

DukeDredd

I've been hearing alot over the last few weeks in the media about customs being more vigilant about bringing in goods bought abroad. I'm heading for New York for a week before Christmas and intend to purchase quite a few clothes. How can they do anything if i have all the tags taken off the clothing and it's not obvious they are brand new. Someone said to me that they can check your credit card for purchases which i find hard to believe. Can your baggage weight going out be compared to the weight of it coming in? If someone could shed some light on this i'd appreciate it...

Duke

bovril

I'm in the same boat too. Will be heading over to NYC next week. I did the same trip last year and got back hastle free. I don't know how they can do anything if all tags are removed from clothing. I plan on maybe buying a guitar over there too. Bringing that back may be another story....

Bluehair

Wouldnt worry about it. what they are mostly looking for are people buying things and bringing them into the country for resale.

(i.e. if they found 150 1 gig SD cards in your luggage you'd have a hard time convincing them that they are your own and your brought them over with you )

I've never seen them stop someone with clothes etc.. Hell i've brought back laptops etc myself so the guitar should not be a problem at all (again unless you plan on buying a half dozen or so )

They can't check credit card statements that's a load of *&^%.

Seriously customs have a job of it chasing drugs smugglers etc than bothering about you lot. Have fun shopping (esp now the dollar is getting better and better!)

bovril

I suppose we could do a joey on it if we wanted to and wear ALL the clothes we buy on the plane back!!