As part of my Baja trip research, I came across a list of things you're allowed to bring with you into Mexico.
ALLOWED:
Personal clothing and footwear
Personal toiletries and beauty products
Baby travel accessories such as strollers and baby walkers (you must have a baby present)
Two photographic cameras or video recorders
12 rolls of film or videocassettes
Three cell phones or other wireless networks
Global Positioning Equipment (GPS)
One typewriter
One electronic calendar
One laptop computer
One portable printer/copier
One portable projector
Two items of sporting equipment
Four fishing rods
Three speedboats with or without sails and their accessories, trophies or recognitions, provided that they can be transported normally and commonly by the passenger
One stair climber
One bicycle
One portable radio or digital sound reproducer with speakers and accessories
Five laser disks
10 DVDs
30 compact disks (CD) or magnetic tapes (audiocassettes)
Three software packages
Five storage devices or memory cards for any electronic equipment
Books, magazines and printed documents
Five toys
One video game console and five videogames
One blood pressure instrument
One glucose-testing device
Personal medications (you must have your prescription with you for any psychotropic drugs that you’re bringing with you into Mexico)
One set of binoculars
One telescope
Luggage necessary to transport personal items
Passengers over 18 years of age are allowed: 10 packs of cigarettes, 25 cigars or 200 grams of tobacco, three liters of liquor or beer, six liters of wine. Any items in excess must be declared and have duties paid.
Two musical instruments and the accessories for the instruments
A camping tent
Camping equipment
A toolset
Up to three dogs or cats, may be brought to Mexico as well as their accessories, provided that the corresponding zoo sanitary import certificate issued by (SAGARPA) is presented to the customs officials
NOT ALLOWED:
Guns or ammunition
Pepper spray
Lethal knives and machetes (anything over 8” is not allowed)
Live predator fish
Totoaba fish (fresh or frozen)
Turtle eggs
Poppy seeds or flour of poppy seeds
Marijuana, medicinal marijuana, marijuana products, marijuana seeds or spores, or marijuana extracts
Opium extract
Stamps or prints, displayed for their sale in envelopes or packages, containing illustrations that represent childhood in a degrading, violent, self-destructive, anti-social or ridiculous way (i.e. Garbage Pail Kids trading cards)
Thallium sulfate
Isodrin, Aldrin, Heptaclor, Drinox, Endrin, Mendrin, Nendrin, Hexadrin or Leptophos insecticides
Heroin
Medication prepared with acetylmorphine or its derivatives
Loggerhead turtles or turtle skins
Goods that have been declared as archaeological monuments by the Secretary of Public Education
Air compression spearguns are prohibited. Rubber band spearguns are permitted.
Guess I'll need to leave the second stair climber and my fourth speedboat behind, along with my heroin and loggerhead turtles. I'll really be roughing it.
Good thing Chet's over 18.
ReplyDeleteI can almost hear the conversations that led to some of those additions to the list.
ReplyDeleteParticularly the amounts of some objects.
DeleteI'm a little unclear; Do you take your own "dancing girls" or get those in Mexico?
ReplyDeleteI always wonder about "you must have the prescription" with you. If you filled the prescription, the pharmacist took the piece of paper and kept it. I think I'm ok with not taking the RV into Mexico.
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