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Re:Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year by detaro on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:11PM (#21797309)
Meat products, some vegetables/fruit, ... are also banned/regulated in some places.
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Re:Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year by chrisseaton on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:12PM (#21797325)
Why would anyone be travelling with ‘meat products’? You can buy food at your destination. I can’t see it as a practical problem for most people.
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Re:Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year by mmerlin on Monday December 16, 2019 @06:02AM (#21802231)
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-04/pork-filled-moon-c...

"A Vietnamese man carrying four kilograms of pork-filled mooncakes has been turned away from Australia after failing to declare he was carrying food.

African Swine Fever has spread to 50 countries and killed an estimated 25 per cent of the world's pigs

A Vietnamese woman was deported last month for failing to declare 10kg of food in her baggage including pork

Australian migration laws were amended in April to shorten or cancel a visitor visa, for biosecurity contraventions and the importation of objectionable goods."

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Re:Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year by robocat on Sunday December 15, 2019 @04:30PM (#21799129)
Lots of people from other cultures travel with food and meat products.

Some common scenarios I have seen:

* bringing foods that is unavailable over for their friends that live overseas

* bringing home presents of food

* bringing over food that is far cheaper from one country

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Re:Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year by detaro on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:18PM (#21797368)
Why wouldn't I bring food I like with me? Not everyone is flying everywhere, when taking a car bringing some food is no effort at all. Or I might bring some local stuff as a gift for my hosts, because they tend to enjoy that kind of thing. Or prepared camping food because I'm more or less straight going away from civilization. Or I pack some fruit, a packed sausage, ... as a snack for on the way, before I go shopping. Or ...
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Re:Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year by chrisseaton on Sunday December 15, 2019 @03:28PM (#21798762)
> Why wouldn't I bring food I like with me?

Because it's a customs faff. That's the point of the thread.

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Re:Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year by kalleboo on Sunday December 15, 2019 @11:20PM (#21800767)
> Because it's a customs faff

It wouldn't be if there was some nice website laying out all the rules in an easy-to-understand way...

Your logic is "nobody needs a site detailing customs rules because they shouldn't be traveling with the things that I personally already know might conceivably cause a customs faff". The point is the website would solve the problem.

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Re:Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year by detaro on Sunday December 15, 2019 @03:39PM (#21798828)
But all these are things ordinary people might want to bring and might not even be aware are a problem, which is what you asked about. You seem to have a quite limited idea of who an "ordinary traveller" might be.

So make it easy to look up and don't let guesses at what some random country in the world might object to dominate all your travel packing and planning (Guesses because until I checked earlier I wouldn't been sure an apple would cause problems anywhere, but apparently at least Australia objects to any fruit). Which was the point of the comment you replied to.

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