{"id":9983,"date":"2014-03-18T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T04:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/?p=9983"},"modified":"2014-03-18T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T04:28:09","slug":"argentine-customs-officers-want-declare-mobile-phone-upon-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/2014\/03\/18\/argentine-customs-officers-want-declare-mobile-phone-upon-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine Customs Officers Want You to Declare Your Mobile Phone Upon Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve been to Argentina (Buenos Aires, specifically) two times in the past three months, I&#8217;ve had to fill out the customs landing form twice. One strange question is that Argentine Customs officials want to know is what type of phone you have. I&#8217;ve traveled to over 30 countries and I have never been asked this question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/files\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9980\" alt=\"ezedeclare1\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/files\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare1.jpg 480w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare1-400x533.jpg 400w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare1-200x266.jpg 200w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare1-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/files\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9981\" alt=\"ezedeclare2\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/files\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare2.jpg 640w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare2-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare2-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare2-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare2-386x290.jpg 386w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare2-290x218.jpg 290w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare2-193x145.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For some reason Argentine customs officers want you to declare your mobile phone upon arrival. No, you won&#8217;t have to pay any duty. Twice, I\u2019ve declared my mobile phone as a White iPhone 5S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/files\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9982\" alt=\"ezedeclare3\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/files\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare3.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare3.jpg 640w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare3-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare3-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare3-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare3-386x290.jpg 386w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare3-290x218.jpg 290w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/\/sites\/12\/2014\/03\/ezedeclare3-193x145.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if you have two phones, one a BlackBerry and the other an iPhone? I&#8217;m not sure what to do in that situation. Argentina has been plagued with corrupt government officials and the sprawling <a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\/2014\/03\/07\/find-black-market-currency-exchange-rates-venezuela-argentina\/\" target=\"_blank\">black market currency exchange houses<\/a>. Just recently, Argentina imposed an imported goods law where if you buy anything online, the package must be inspected and taxes would be collected. This makes it really hard for Argentines to buy electronics and other goods abroad.<\/p>\n<p>One easy method to go around that is to have someone from the United States purchase everything for you, stuff it in a suitcase, and fly it to Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, Argentine customs officers don&#8217;t care what kind of phone you have or if you have not declared it. During my last trip, I actually went through customs without giving the form to the lady (walked right by her). The lady could have cared less and she was busy playing on her phone. I had to backtrack since I accidentally forgot to give it to her. She didn&#8217;t even glance at it and just stacked it messily with the other papers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve been to Argentina (Buenos Aires, specifically) two times in the past three months, I&#8217;ve had to fill out the customs landing form&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":9982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[149,49,50],"tags":[2357,2673,2667,2359,2668,2671,2672,2670,2669],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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