Can I Bring Beef Jerky From South Africa Into the Us
Beefiness jerky! Volition it exist a problem bringing information technology through customs?
Jun 15th, 2006, 09:52 AM
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Beef hasty! Volition it be a problem bringing it through customs?
I purchased several O'Berto beef jerky packages and several boxes of Applets & Cotlets. We programme on giving them away to diverse people nosotros see on our Republic of costa rica trip. Just wondering if community will let information technology.
Cheers much!
Carrie
Jun 15th, 2006, 01:21 PM
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Community asks nigh "meat" which I presume (but an not certain) would include jerky.
Jun 15th, 2006, 03:16 PM
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Oberto hasty is stale, cooked and packaged. Would that make a difference?
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Jun 15th, 2006, 04:57 PM
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Fifty-fifty packaged meats are not immune through community when you enter the US. I tin't speak to entering CR.
Jun 16th, 2006, 04:26 AM
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I've never understood why tourists want to take things for the locals in Costa Rica, one of the wealtiest nations in Latin America. Why don't people talk like this when going to Braziil or Jamaica or Chile?
Jun 16th, 2006, 06:30 AM
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The meat brake I mentioned was for United mexican states/US, don't know most Republic of costa rica.
The processed should be OK, only not sure well-nigh meat/jerky. I know that hasty is dried, cooked, packaged, just the sign at customs merely says "meat" or maybe meat products?
Jun 16th, 2006, 07:32 AM
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Mike,
Information technology doesn't make a departure that I'm bringing things to Costa Rica. I'd do the same here, or anywhere. Several people in Costa Rica have been helpful in providing data. I've booked this trip on my own, just plant their communication to be extremely helpful.
We're also bringing art supplies (i.e., oil pastels, pens, pencils,watercolors) to the school in Tortuguero. You say they're a wealthy country, but it sounds like the school in Tortuguero could employ a few extras.
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Jun 16th, 2006, 07:41 AM
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MikeT: Chile is not wealthy compared to other Latin American countries? You obviously shot from the hip on this one and I tin can possibly understand your thinking simply your attitude stinks! The guy is going to CR, not those other places, and is trying to exist nice. Unlike you, who probably never took anything with you as well a flake on your shoulder! Become lost!!!
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I don't know what the dominion is. But nosotros have friends that own a hotel near the airport, and they are addicted to Andouille sausage and Cajun Boudin. 2 specialties of Southern Louisiana.
Nosotros bring it in every trip. The customs agent always asks and we are ever honest. I besides used to bring beef jerky, every bit a snack for the calorie-free home. Never a problem with either.
I am guessing that whatever processed meat production must be okay.
Hope this helps.
Warm Regards,
Pat Hewitt
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Jun 16th, 2006, 11:35 AM
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The Costa Rican customs form you fill out on the flying there asks you to bank check YES or NO: I am bringing meat, food, animal products into the country (or something similar that). Customs at the aerodrome in San Jose uses large x-ray machines of the type that the TSA uses for outgoing luggage in the United States. All your numberless coming into Costa Rica are x-rayed. I suppose the worst that could happen is that they'd confiscate the beef hasty, but it doesn't sound likely.
Costa Rica is well-off compared to other Latin American countries, and Chile is downright wealthy, just there is still swell need in Costa rica. Healthy for bringing the schoolhouse supplies.
Jun 16th, 2006, 12:35 PM
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"Unlike you lot, who probably never took anything with yous besides a bit on your shoulder! Get lost!!!"
Good heavens.
I've been to Costa Rica and Mexico and Chile and Jamaica and I've never really understood why information technology seems that it is CR where people on Fodors are always bringing stuff for the locals. Do people bring stuff for the people in Kingston or in rural Oaxaca or Chiapas? If so, why don't they ever ask about it?
Jun 16th, 2006, 01:00 PM
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Ahh... Christmas Eve in (what we would consider)a poor boondocks in Mexico - bringing bags filled with arts and craft type of things for the kids. I vividly recollect 1 stick firm, with dirt floors; naked kids; no running water. Nosotros were practically mobbed walking the streets (in a proficient sort of way), until we ran out of supplies. It's not like we were making a large bargain out of information technology. In fact, we passed things out quite discreetly, in the dark, hidden, and quietly. But before nosotros knew information technology, the word spread. Gauge nosotros'll bring more than side by side Christmas.
I tell my students, hither at domicile, to e'er get out a place better than when yous came into it. Doesn't matter where. It's simply a way to say 'cheers' for sharing your dwelling with united states of america. Ten days after our return from Republic of costa rica, nosotros're off for Ireland. And yes, aforementioned goes for there also.
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At that place are many desperately poor people throughout Costa rica. Good for you for bringing things! The schools ever need things and there are several soup-kitchen blazon places that help feed the poor.
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Jun 16th, 2006, 02:41 PM
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I know school supplies are always welcome in many places in CR. Iguana Lodge in Pto Jimenez is involved with edifice up books in a relatively new library and tin can always utilize spanish language books.
Sounds like you have brightened a few Christmases for kids who otherwise would not have had much. Good job.
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