Originally Posted by
drewguy
Question occurred to me as I used GE for the first time with my family:
The $800 limit on duty-free imports can be aggregated for families traveling together (i.e., a family of 3 gets $2400 total). The questions on GE ask about $800, however, and don't provide a family cumulation option.
Say we were close to the limit (we weren't in this case). Would we all answer "less than $800" and then if given a secondary explain how we allocated across the family? What if we had bought one $2000 item?
As long as the total for the three of you does not exceed $2,400, you should be fine and each of you would answer that the amount was no more than $800. If you were traveling without GE, there would only be a single Customs form to fill out, but that won't work at GE kiosks, where three electronic forms are required, so you have to allocate the $2,400.