Do I have to declare personal items at Customs in Dublin Airport?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 20 Jul, 2023
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The 450 euro Customs exception is for goods you intend to leave in Ireland. As a tourist, you will be bringing your camera, laptop, used underwear etc with you back out of Ireland when you leave, so the limit does not apply.
Formally, this is known as "temporary importation" and it’s possible to officially declare your goods so they’re not subject to import duties. In practice, this is a huge pain in the ass and nobody ever does it unless the item in question is hugely valuable, and the EU as a rule does not care.
Anecdote: In another EU country, I once had to formally temporarily import a research prototype with an assessed value in the five digits that was mailed to me from overseas, so I could set it up and take it out of the EU again to a conference. This involved running around customs bond warehouses looking for people who could even accept the paperwork, and was not what most people would call a fun time.
The duty-free allowance is only relevant for goods that you are importing (i.e., planning to leave) in the European Union. If you are traveling to a country with some personal possessions and plan to take those possessions back with you when you return, you generally do not owe any duty on them.
In theory, there are some forms you could be required to fill out, but in practice, a US citizen visiting the EU with a "normal" amount of personal goods will never be asked to do so. Use the green "nothing to declare" channel at customs (unless you have other goods that should be declared for some other reason) and you’ll be completely fine.
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