45 - Sunday, January 11,

1987 - North Shore News

IT’S NO secret that a traveller can buy expensive jewelry

and watches at bargain prices in many parts of the world.

For example, [| am never

rd without my Seiko watch, purchas-
ed in Jersey three years ago for the
paltry sum of £53. At that time the
pound was taking a real beating

if and | estimate thai my fine watch
cost me about $90 Canadian.

It hasn’t lost a minute or re-
quired a new battery in that time.
Now, there are people with a lot
more money than I have who
i aren't satisfied with a modest
watch. They are entranced by the
i * multi-diamond ones. These are
i undeniably a bargain as well, but
oniy if you are in the tax bracket
that can handle that kind of thing.
The big crunch comes when you
have to bring the bargain through
Canada Customs. There ate few
people who look more sheepish
than the well-off businessman be-
ing questioned about some piece of
- jewelry -he’s. attempting to bluff
through.
I’d. guess that next to illicit
a drugs, jewelry is the biggest cash

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crop harvested at our borders. On

one visit to Canada Customs at
Vancouver Airport (as a guest, not
a suspect) | had the opportunity of
viewing a bagful of gold and
assorted gems with an estimated
value of over $300,000.

The sad thing about it was that

travel
wise

the majority of the stuff was in

such gaudy taste that I'd be
ashamed to be seen wearing. it.

+ This stuff was probably the
result of deliberate smuggling on a

ry seizure

large scale. Not that the
businessman with the $15,000
watch strapped to his wrist is any
less a smuggler, but there is a slight
difference — that businessman
could be you.

Canada Customs is aware that
there is some uncertainty among
travellers about the rules regarding
transporting jewelry across our
border.

For example: Did you know that
should a young Canadian girl
become engaged to a young man
outside of Canada and receive a
ting purchased outside of Canada
that the ring must be declared at
the border and the duty paid?

Just because an item of jewelry
is a gift makes no difference.

The next common misunder-
standing comes when a traveller
(and an idiot, at that) goes abroad
with a large quantity of expensive
personal jewelry.

As a departing Canadian no one
will question your jewelry.

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