On 08/12/2011 03:55 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 12 August 2011 22:51, James Hare <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Not a big deal, but I'd like to correctly report this on my customs form. >> What is the value of the bag, literature, etc. given out at Wikimania? > > De minimis? Apart from, perhaps, the book about Israel, I doubt > anything in there has every been sold. It looked like the kind of > stuff that is always given away. There will be a cost to someone, of > course, but does that matter for customs?
I filled out U.S. Customs and Border Protection Declaration Form 6059B http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/vacation/sample_declaration_form.xml on my way back from Wikimania. To be punctilious ("For gifts, please indicate the retail value."), I made an estimate and declared the bag and conference books. I believe I said that I said the shoulder bag was worth $15 or $20, and that the books ("Facts About Israel" and the Haifa book) were worth $10 in total. I could have been wrong by an order of magnitude and it would not have mattered, since I am a US resident and "U.S. residents are normally entitled to a duty-free exemption of $800 on items accompanying them" and this is per trip, not cumulative. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
