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  • 14-08-2009 1:04pm
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    brennarr
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭


    Hey,

    Am heading to Sydney next month on a holiday and I'm meeting friends from back home over there. They want to bring chocolate and teabags etc from back home to bring with me. What I want to know is that would I have to declare this food when I go through Oz customs? Do anyone foresee a problem with this?

    Cheers


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    Harpic
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭Harpic


    http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=4351#items


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    CardinalJ
    Registered Users Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭CardinalJ


    When you're flying into Sydney the cabin crew will give you an 'anything to declare' style form, just fill in what you have and when you get to customs let them know what you have.

    It's easy as that. Pieces of fruit is the main thing theyre utterly anal about.


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    hussey
    Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    I just fill out the form or say to the guy at the desk that I have chocolate, usually they just let you through, sometimes you need a bag scanned, but most times not


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    Ozeire
    Registered Users Posts: 575 ✭✭✭Ozeire


    brennarr

    As i say on our FAQ page

    A passenger card is the given to you before you land in Australia. You need to read it very carefully and fill out the correct details.

    Or Customs get very pissed off.

    Make sure that you declare all foods in section 6 and definitely if you have more than Aud $10,000 section 5

    If you are at all in doubt about any thing best to declare. Customs respect passengers who are unsure about a question on the card and ask about it. But take a very dim view of passengers who don’t declare things even if a mistake.

    Anyway a lot of the time the queue through the customs is shorter.

    You can see a sample of a passenger card here

    Ireland is on a list that most things from us are fine . So you won't have any trouble at all .


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