"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."

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

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

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.

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.