Does anyone have experience buying Dahua equipment overseas and taking it home in your luggage?
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As with anything have the receipts, declare the item / value. If you’ve been away long enough (per day) look up what the maximum duty free is.
If you were gone for more than a week the vast majority should be covered by duty free. Whether you still need to pay for State / Local tax is all together different!
Worst case you can ship it back to yourself and claim it as a gift and declare a low SRD. Anything under $100.XX is duty free but you’ll want to confirm if State / Local tax applies.
Lastly, do not use DHL, UPS, FedEx as the courier if the declared value is more than $25.XX.
As each of these dirty cunts have a tiered (Brokerage) fee to clear the item through customs etc. You can always clear the parcel yourself too if and when the parcel arrives if you did use them.
As it relates to how and what the item should be declared as. Make sure you research what items will be taxed at what rate!
Besides indicating the item is a Gift. You can also indicate it’s a warranty replacement and duty & taxes do not apply.
Regardless of all the above insurance is a double edged sword. As the way bill will call out how much the item is insured for regardless of what real vs fake value you indicate on the bill of laden.