Originally Posted by
fwoomp
Also, although several people have said, essentially, "Well, I did it and got away with it," we don't know anything about the OP other than age and occupation as a student abroad. We have know way of knowing whether there is something about him or her which would register as a red flag and lead to a search.
Exactly. If he gets pulled into a secondary because his name matches someone on some watch list, they will find the booze.
As an aside, I routinely bring in two bottles of good stuff and, when asked, always state the # of bottles. Only once in the recent past was I charged the duty for that second bottle and it was somewhere around $3.
I've also had the interesting experience at BDA where duty-free is post pre-clearance CBP, that the duty on extra bottles is collected by the vendor at the point-of-purchase. I suspect that there are many people who envision massive payments, but import duties on standard consumer items tend to be negligible.