New Age Duty Free

[Ralph Katzenell]

Greetings All.

Israel has offerred a useful variant for some time. You buy your duty free on the way out. They give you an ID slip.
On your return flight, after passport control but before customs (ie in the baggage collection hall) you go to the service desk, present your slip and an ID, and your DF is presented to you, nicely packaged up. The service is very efficient and I understand there are very few foul-ups. People but everything from the usual up to heavy white goods and expensive computers and music systems. They deliver to your home for a very reasonable sum. 

No good for tourists, but fine for locals.

Ralph


----- Original Message -----
From: Gunnlaugur Thor Briem <gthb at HI.IS>
Date: Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:09 pm
Subject: Re: New Age Duty Free

> > - I don't know if Iceland or Turkey has litmits like this.
> 
> Iceland does: http://dutyfree.is/english/front/customs_regulations/
> 
> In short (and ignoring tobacco), the allowance is one of:
> 
> * 1 litre of spirits (>=22%) and 1 litre of wine (<22%)
> * 1 litre of spirits and 6 litres of beer
> * 1 litre of wine and 6 litres of beer
> * 2.25 litres of wine
> 
> (Until 1989 beer was *illegal* in the country except when carried 
> in 
> personally by this allowance, which was smaller back then. Pilots 
> and 
> flight attendants were popular.)
> 
> This plus state monopoly (and thus monotony) on liquor sales means 
> that 
> garnering a decent malt collection requires frequent travel. :) 
> Here's 
> hoping recent developments won't cut that avenue off for good.
> 
> 	- Gulli
> 
> ---
> Gunnlaugur Thor Briem
> Software Engineer and malt neophyte
> 
> 
> 
> arve at LERVIK.ORG wrote:
> > Quoting Ulf Buxrud <ulf at BUXRUD.SE>:
> > 
> >> I have for the last 15 years or so been lobbying for a system 
> where 
> >> the 'tax
> >> free' or 'dicsounted' alcohol should be purchased upon arrival 
> and not on
> >> departure.
> >>
> >> Upon arrival at international airports one is still in a 
> transit area 
> >> equal
> >> to the one from which departure occurs. So from a 
> 'economical/political'>> pont wiew there is no difference.
> >>
> >> Further, keep in mind that all intra European air transports 
> does not any
> >> longer offer 'tax free' purchases. The price level at the 
> airports 
> >> offered
> >> to intra European travellers are at least at par with shops 
> outside the
> >> airport or HIGHER.
> > 
> > There are currently three countries in Europe that allow proper 
> > tax-freeshopping
> > upon arrival. All three are non-EU - Norway, Iceland and Turkey.
> > 
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Arve M Lervik
> > Norwegian Malt Whisky Society
> > (and tax-free employee)
> > 
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