Wine from FCO?
04-27-2023, 04:39 PM
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Wine from FCO?
Hey folks! I have a couple of Rome trips coming up, and I’d like to bring back some nice Italian wines. Has anyone had experience with this? I’d like to possibly bring 6 bottles back with me, but reduce the chances of Italian crew security taking any from me as well as USCBP. When asked if I have anything to declare, am I required disclose the wine?
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04-27-2023, 05:10 PM
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Hey folks! I have a couple of Rome trips coming up, and I’d like to bring back some nice Italian wines. Has anyone had experience with this? I’d like to possibly bring 6 bottles back with me, but reduce the chances of Italian crew security taking any from me as well as USCBP. When asked if I have anything to declare, am I required disclose the wine?
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
04-27-2023, 06:08 PM
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04-28-2023, 09:37 AM
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Has anyone brought in more than $200? I know anything over the "personal use" limits as a pax is subject to fees...but there's also a minimum threshold of money that need to be charged in order to collect them. IE they aren't going to make you pay 20 cents in tariffs cause it's not worth the time to account for and collect it. I don't know what that threshold is, but I've brought back alcohol and the like a little over over the limit and declared them and have never been charged. Granted that was ass a tourist and military air crew so that could be different, but I doubt it.
04-28-2023, 12:20 PM
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Has anyone brought in more than $200? I know anything over the "personal use" limits as a pax is subject to fees...but there's also a minimum threshold of money that need to be charged in order to collect them. IE they aren't going to make you pay 20 cents in tariffs cause it's not worth the time to account for and collect it. I don't know what that threshold is, but I've brought back alcohol and the like a little over over the limit and declared them and have never been charged. Granted that was ass a tourist and military air crew so that could be different, but I doubt it.
04-28-2023, 12:48 PM
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04-28-2023, 04:32 PM
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Don't trust what you read on an anonymous forum, please do some digging elsewhere on your own for an authoritative answer in writing. The rules for working crew members are different than for passengers. On my way back from a recent trip the other FO was bringing back two bottles of liquor. When he mentioned it the CA warned him that he was only allowed to bring back one, and if he got caught at Customs he'd lose his Global Entry. So I bought the extra one off him. Full crews arriving into SFO lately have been getting searched. I have no idea what the rules are regarding wine. I'd start looking around the ICE website and if you don't find anything try a PDR. And if you find a solid answer... post it here! 
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