Like others have said, I'd try to bring as much of it back as possible in your luggage. Although I've heard you only have about a 5% chance of getting your bags inspected by customs upon re-entry to the US from Asia, my bags seem to get inspected at least 50% of the time. Maybe I look like a smuggler or something? I've been to Beijing and back 3 times in the last couple year and been stopped at customs 2 of those times (and I also get stopped often when coming back from other Asian countries for some reason). I bring back ~75-100 DVDs, about 5 purses, a few pairs of shoes, maybe 5 watches, 5-10 articles of fake clothing (Diesel jeans, Nike stuff, Adidas, etc), and ~ 10 pairs of sunglasses each trip. Surprisingly I have never had anything taken from me when customs inspects my bags and I know they must see the stuff. I normally bring empty CD cases (those big ones that hold 50 or 100 CDs) with me to China and take the DVDs out of the cheap plastic holders and stick all the DVDs in the CD cases. I figure that may throw Customs off a bit, especially since I throw a couple legit CDs on top. Then I stuff everything else in the purses and separate them and put one or two in each bag I bring back. Like I said, I've never had a problem re-entering the US, but maybe I've just been lucky. I don't bring the items back for resale, just for gifts and my personal DVD collection. And of course I would play stupid if caught. But at ~6-7 yuan (75-90 cents) apeice for the DVDs, you can't go wrong stocking up on your personal collection. I thought about selling them on eBay but wisely decided against it. As far as DVD tips: Buy old movies. The new movies that are still showing on screen in the US are crap quality on DVD, trust me. I'll be back in China in a week and a half, hopefully my luck continues. Just out of curiousity, has anybody here gotton caught with pirated goods and had it confiscated when returning to the US? If you prefer to not post it publically on this thread, a PM would be appreciated.