Moving Household Goods to the United States - Returning Residents - Customs Forum

**admin** · 09-09-2011, 13:18 PM

Tax exemptions for household and personal effects
You can import furniture, dishes, linens, libraries, graphics and other household items for personal use duty-free. To be eligible for duty-free exemption, the articles were either for use or disposal in a household where you were a resident for one year. The year of the application must not be continuous, yet it needs to the year immediately preceding the date of importation. Personal and household effects entitled to duty-free entry need not accompany you to the United States, you can add your U.S. address delivered at a later date, if you choose. Your shipment of personal and / or household goods must be cleared through Customs at its first port of arrival, unless you have agreements with a foreign carrier that your impact in Customs custody in-bond from the port of arrival at a convenient port of entry for clearance. (Ask your moving company if they offer this service.) Customs, you can not mean that your goods have arrived. It is important that you notify the carrier that your goods arrive in port - otherwise after 15 days, they will be taken to a general order warehouse and can be sold at auction after six months. If merchandise is brought into a general warehouse, storage charges will be incurred and the payment of these fees is the responsibility of the party that the use and consumption goods. When you arrive at the customs, give your goods, you must give Customs Form 3299, "Declaration for Free Entry of Unaccompanied Articles," to the customs officials. If you can not come to the Customs office yourself, you can choose a friend or relative to represent you in customs matters. You must specify the name of that person a letter to "Officer in Charge of Customs" authorizing that individual to you as your agent to provide a unique basis to clear your shipment through customs.

Professional Equipment / Tools of Trade
If you have professional equipment and tools of trade were acquired abroad, they are not duty-free viewing right when they were in your possession for a year before returning to the United States. If they were in your possession when you moved abroad, and are brought back in connection with your return to the U.S. they are exempt from tax.

Alcohol, tobacco
You can bring in one liter of alcoholic beverages, duty free and Internal Revenue taxes, if you are 21 years old, it is for your own use or for a gift, and it is not in violation of the laws of the state in which you arrive . Alcoholic beverages on the one-liter limitation are subject to duty and Internal Revenue tax.

Up to 100 cigars and 200 cigarettes (a carton) can be included in your exemption. Tobacco products of Cuban origin are prohibited, except in Cuba by persons authorized by the State Department, purchased to travel to Cuba.

Firearms and ammunition
Firearms and ammunition previously taken out, and returned to the United States by the same person may upon presentation of the U.S. Customs of adequate proof of prior possession, ie, purchase contract, household goods inventory showing serial number are released, Customs Info 4455 or 4457th

Gifts
Bona fide gifts may free of customs duties and taxes that are sent as long to friends and relatives in the United States, since one and the same person does not receive more than $ 100 (or $ 200 if from American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands or Guam) in a gift box shipments per day. If you bring gifts to $ 800 in free goods purchased abroad, from $ 600 Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act countries, or $ 1200 from American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands or Guam. The exemption includes both gifts and other items for personal use. Gifts must be included in the declaration of the donor when he returned to the United States. Gifts are not considered part of the household and personal effects. Alcoholic beverages, cigars and cigarettes are not included in this exemption from duty.

Gifts that exceed $ 100 or $ 200 retail value subject to a duty based on the total amount value of the gift or gifts. There are no exceptions.

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