Indian Customs

Vinit and I have been setting up to move most of our excess baggage to India for a while now. Unfortunately, my beautiful 'havai mahal' got busted when I looked up the customs regulations if I am transferring residence to India.

Transfer of Residence(TR) gives us a lot of leeway according to the rules. It actually allows us to bring back ALL of our personal items like clothes, kitchen utensils, books free of charge. In fact, now that we are married, as a family we can bring back one VCR, one washing machine and even ONE refrigerator!!! Can you believe our luck? We can actually take back ALL these items free of charge!

We will only have to pay a 15.3% duty on the rest of my electronics including my video camera, TV, projector, printer.

Oh and yes, the only thing that we REALLY care about getting to India is going to be charged a measly 142.64%!!! Our bike. Our poor, lovely, bike. First, it had to stay in the garage for an entire summer 'cause we didn't bring it to Fl. Now, it might have to stay in it forever till we take it out for 'a' ride or two.