Gifts to bring your personal use to explain, but you May in your personal exemption. This includes donations of people gave you while you are abroad, such as wedding or birthday, and the donations that you again for the other.
Gifts for business, promotion or other commercial purposes May not necessarily in your exemption from duty.
Note also that in a federal law, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, perfume and alcohol, and a value of more than $ 5 May detail is not in the gift of liberation.
Gifts worth up to $ 100 in May to be sent, free of taxes and duties, to friends and relatives in the U.S., as long as this person is not, no more than $ 100 the value of gifts in a single day. If the gifts by post or to a possession of the island, this amount to $ 200.
It was because back in the USA by a possession of the island, not to declare the donations that you’ve made while you on your journey, because they are not to you.
Gifts for more than one Persons May be delivered in the same package, which is a gift, if it is individually wrapped and labeled with the name of each recipient. Proceed as follows to the packaging and labeling is a gift.
Make sure that the mark in the outermost package:
* The words “unsolicited gift” and the words “gift paper STANDARD;
* Total value of the consolidated;
* The names of the beneficiaries and the
* The nature and value of the gifts inside. For example, the tennis shoes, $ 50, shirt, 45 $, car toys, $ 15.
For example:
John Jones and a belt, $ 20, a box of candy, $ 5, a tie, $ 20.
Marie Smith Rock, $ 45, a belt, $ 15, a pair of trousers, $ 30.
If an item is worth more than the gift of U.S. $ 100 compensation, which is all taxable.
You, as a traveler, not a gift package for yourself and all persons who are not on the gifts to the other. But there is no reason to do it somehow, because the personal exemption for parcels sent from abroad is $ 200, which is twice as high that the donation liberation.
Your personal can be sent, in the United States duty free if they are from the U.S., and if they are not altered or repaired abroad. Personal clothing, such as by mail can go home and get duty-free entry if you have the words “in the U.S., returned goods” on the outside of the packaging.
If a packet duties, the post of the United States to collect all of the consignee and the shipping and handling fees. The sender can not prepay the task, the recipient must pay when a packet is received, in the U.S..
For further information about the shipment of packages in the U.S. can be found on the page with the title “The shipment of goods in the U.S.” (objects back in the U.S.) to the Customs and Border Protection website. Make sure the latest information before your trip.