U.S. Customs operates under its own rules, somewhat different from those in Europe.
What you can bring on an airplane to the U.S..
- Any amount of national currency with declaration of amounts over 10000 USD
- 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 4.4 pounds (2 kg) of leaf tobacco
- Personal items (including not only clothes and shoes, but also a camera, laptop or tablet, cell phone, baby stroller, and so on) within reasonable limits
- Gifts up to 100 USD per person
What is not allowed to be brought into the U.S.
- Fresh and canned meats (including poultry)
- Meat, eggs, feathers, hides, tusks of wild animals
- Plants and seeds (exception - flowers without soil in the presence of a phytosanitary certificate)
- Fruits and vegetables (including grapes, apples, tomatoes)
- Fish and uncanned caviar
- Dairy products and eggs
- Samples of soil
- Mollusks and snails
- All types of drugs and narcotic medications
- Medicines that have not been certified by the U.S. federal drug agency
- Rare and endangered species of animals and birds; their skins, eggs, skin, tusks, bone (including ivory, turtle shells, crocodile skin); articles made from them
- Military weapons (edged and firearms)
- Poisonous substances and poisons
- Explosives
- Materials (printed and electronic) with extremist content
- Absent
- Cuban cigars
What is prohibited to take out of the U.S.A.: Antiques
How much alcohol can be brought into the U.S.: Up to 1 U.S. quart (946.3 ml) of hard liquor or 2 quarts of low-alcoholic beverages.
How much alcohol you can take out of the U.S.: up to 3 liters of any beverage.
