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I was shocked the first time I went through Swedish customs that no one gave me so much as a second glance. I just sort of waved my passport at the very bored looking government employee and walked on through!
With U.S. customs, honesty is generally the best policy as there's a tax free allowance of $800 per person. The only times I've known anyone to have things confiscated is when they didn't declare: one friend had some mangoes tossed (Agriculture agent said that she could have kept 'em as long as they were irradiated and bug free, but now she wasn't going to be given that option) and another friend got stuck with some mega fines for trying to bring in about ten brand new linen and/or wool suits from India (he tried claiming the actual price he spent on them, but Customs was not in the mood).
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