On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:10:05 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:11:41 +0000, llort wrote:
>
>>Hatunen wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:56:39 +0000, llort wrote:
>>>
>>>> Martin wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:04:36 +0000, llort wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Runge 9 wrote:
>>>>>>> Yes and no
>>>>>>> When you hit the road with all your stuff ,you can be controlled, say
>>>>>>> down the hill and then what ?
>>>>>> Just say you legally exported the stuff?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess my question was:
>>>>>> "How much can I legally export per day (under my duty free allowance)"
>>>>> They control the amount in your car, they aren't interested in how many trips it
>>>>> took you to fill your boot.
>>>> That's not my question - try again
>>>
>>> Which was:
>>>
>>>>>> I guess my question was:
>>>>>> "How much can I legally export per day (under my duty free allowance)"
>>>
>>> I didn't know duty free allowances applied to exports.
>>
>>Yes, there is an allowance of goods that you can export duty/tax (VAT)
>>free. The goods normally referred to are perfums, booze and fags.
>>I'm wondering if it's a daily allowance or per visit.
>
>Does it matter what your destination is? For instance, is there a
>limit on how much duty free stuff I can buy if I am departing for
>America?
In general in Europe, the allowances for non European destinations are more than
for the local destinations. As far as OP is concerned the amount that matters is
the amount he has in his car when he is stopped by the douane, but he appears to
be uninterested in that. Locals in France have realised fir decades that
Andorra is a source of cheap goodies, for this reason the douane do random
checks and confiscations. When I was there in the mid seventies and maybe still,
in Andorra they sold cheap plastic gerrycans for visitors to fill with petrol,
some where on the route back to Toulouse at random checkpoints, the douane would
confiscate the petrol and fine those carrying fuel in the boot in jerrycans. In
the 1970s camera prices were the same in Andorra as at Schiphol except in
Andorra you had to spend hours bargaining.
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Martin
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