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Re: [OM] Customs: A Tale of Two Cities

Subject: Re: [OM] Customs: A Tale of Two Cities
From: "John Hudson" <jahudson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 10:27:49 -0700
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Omer Nezih GEREK <gerek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes from Switzerland

To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, May 07, 1999 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Customs: A Tale of Two Cities


>On Fri, 7 May 1999, Morgan Sparks wrote:
>
>> > Canada does not have a monopoly on diligent customs' officers!
>> (snip)
>> > You are quite right and I did not intend this little story as putting
>> > down Canada.
>>
>> I live close to the border.  My experience going to Quebec has been that
>> the U.S. Border Patrol is alot harder on Americans coming back than the
>> Canadians are with them coming in.  Of course I've never had more than a
>> single kit with me, and the U.S. Customs has never been interested in my
>> photography equipment.  Probably they assume--correctly---that there's
>> no incentive to buy this kind of stuff in Canada, since it's
>> comparatively cheaper in the States.
>>
>> It seems that liquor and cigarettes are the northbound contraband, while
>> most everything else illegal flows south.
>>
>> Morgan Sparks
>>
>
>Perhaps the US police should write down the strict limits for items to be
>carried, just like the Swiss police looking at the goods you bring from,
>let's say, France: Half kilo of raw meat, two kilos of sausage, one liter
>of oil, two liters of milk, one 21mm Zuiko or one 18mm and one 24mm
>together, one normal zoom or a fast standard lens, one macro and one tele
>(either zoom, or a fixed one), less than three extension tubes or
>teleconverters, etc.

Canada Customs has just such a list known as a "grocery list" which is
freely available at each and every border crossing I have ever used.

jh



>For the enthusiast, yes, the Swiss police do check each and every item,
>especially if you are a foreigner.







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>OMer Nezih Gerek
>Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
>Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS)
>CH-1015 Ecublens
>Lausanne, Switzerland
>http://ltswww.epfl.ch
>mailto:gerek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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