Crossing the border anecdote
My husband and I have a commuter marriage between India and the
States (and now between Germany and India, I'm on my sabbatical here)
and we have a 3 year old and an 8 year old.
A few years back, when we were visiting India, with the then 1 year
old, I felt that I had to take back a whole bunch of diapers (they
sell them in India but they are exorbitantly priced). However, the
customs officer shocked me when he said that all our other household
items were used and hence not dutiable, but since these diapers were
new, we had to pay duty on them!! I tried to convince him that it was
hard to work with "used" disposable diapers but he didn't believe me
and we had to pay the duty.
The good news is that when we tried to smuggle some in last year, we
were caught but the duty officer had since then seen many disposable
diapers and we didn't have to pay.
Rita
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