U.S. Customs Help

I was working for a guy in Costa Rica, he bought a rather large farm and it had cattle on it. He was a veggie, but he fell in love with the white cheese ( can't remember the name, but is real salty and tastes like mozzarella), best when fried!!! YUM YUM!!!

Anywho, He DEMANDED I carry about 10 pounds back into the states- he wouldn't do it, but for what i was getting paid, would have tried to bring 100 pounds.

Straight from the farm totally unprocessed. A big no no.

Stupid I know, but about 1-3% incoming bags get checked, less than if you don't fit a profile.

I was fine.

If you get caught with your bottle, answer,

Maggot: Dude you can't take my booze...

Customs: That's not allowed, it's a voilation of Federal Code 5647.97865 I 'm going to have to take this..."

Maggot: That sucks!:mad: :mad: :mad:

Customs: Would you like to contact my supervisor???

Maggot: No, but you better not touch that bottle of wine:cussing: :cussing: :cussing:

Sacrifice it if you have to, claim it as a bottle of some type schnapps but have another type of liquor with you as a diversion.

You'll be golden.

Either mail it to yourself or just wrap it up in your suit case. They may not pilfer through your shit. That is what I have done with cigars. The safe way would be mail but foreign mail is very slow. I mailed some shit from Spain and was home for a month before the fucking package got to my house.

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Originally Posted by skiing-in-jackson

...he fell in love with the white cheese ( can't remember the name, but is real salty and tastes like mozzarella), best when fried!!! YUM YUM!!!...

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If it looks like this it's called Asadero or also Queso Fresco. Available in vacuum packed twinpacs at CostCo for about $7.

http://www.cheese-store.com/images/asadero.jpg

Listen to cj001f. This thread is a whole bunch of panty-twisting about nothing.

Rule #1 of crossing borders (even when you're not doing anything wrong) is to be cool. Don't volunteer anything (ever), always wait to be asked a question, be polite but not overly "chatty" (that makes you look nervous), and don't look like you're hiding something. It's really that simple. Ohh, and keep answers short and to the point.

Just remember what the worst case scenerio is: They're just gonna take away the bottle of contraband, if they find it. ... Unless they find the 10 pounds of crack the airline workers hide in your checked baggage that is... :D :D

Ohh, and for extra assurance, yer really best to put it in der poopenhausen.

Quit your bitchin. I fly across borders with booze all the time. (Its funny how 1/2 those bottles dissapear during the flight)

Claim it as you would any other booze. Just write "1L of liquor" on the customs card. It's worse to not declare anything and get caught with some stuff. If they ask, say its a local liquer. Play dumb if they say its illegal.

I would seriously advise against re-filling another bottle and carrying it in check-in bag. I've had bags frequently inspected cause of a bottle, and they just check to make sure its sealed (previously open stuff they get suspicous of - replaced with stuff that can go kaboom!).

Also, I've never been searched in the poopenhausen, so that could be good hiding place if your paranoid.

I'm actually on the plane right now with the bottle about 3 feet over my head as we speak. (in the carryon.) We'll see how it goes.

I made it just fine, they didn't even check my carry-on. Thanks for the advice haha.

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Originally Posted by DDsnake

I've been chronic for almost 20 yrs and I've always taken my medicine wherever I've gone (US ,Europe, Asia, Australia) and never had a problem.

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I was glad I left mine home at the last minute when I went to NZ a couple months ago, they had dogs sniffing every carry-on as we came off the plane. Pretty sure they were mainly looking for food items but still. I also got busted going into Bermuda, that wasn't too cool.

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Originally Posted by iceman

I was glad I left mine home at the last minute when I went to NZ a couple months ago, they had dogs sniffing every carry-on as we came off the plane. Pretty sure they were mainly looking for food items but still. I also got busted going into Bermuda, that wasn't too cool.

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Point,taken.

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Originally Posted by INDY GS

You should not have a problem, I came thru customs on my way back from serbia last fall, with at least 6 Bottles of hard liquor a couple of beers and 2 bottles of wine, IN A CARRY ON.

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You brought back 6 bottles of slivovitz and didn't give me one? :nonono2: