{"id":111216,"date":"2018-04-04T13:29:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T17:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=111216"},"modified":"2018-04-04T13:29:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T17:29:37","slug":"personal-items-enter-duty-free-says-customs-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/04\/personal-items-enter-duty-free-says-customs-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal items enter duty free, says Customs Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-96502\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DGA-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" \/>Customs Agency made clear on Tuesday, 3 April 2018 that personal items are still duty free. Mentioned among these are clothing, laptop, camera, cell phone, and gifts for up to US$500. \u201cThe rights of passengers continue as they were. It is not true that duties need to be paid on the items categorized as personal luggage,\u201d said the DGA in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The DGA says that what has changed is the Customs form that was modified to comply with Law 155-17 on Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aduanas.gob.do\/noticias\/aduanas-desmiente-pasajeros-deban-pagar-por-art%C3%ADculos-personales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DGA<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/noticias\/aduanas-pasajeros-no-deben-pagar-por-articulos-personales-GX9550329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diario Libre<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.7dias.com.do\/portada\/2018\/04\/03\/i241812_direccion-aduanas-niega-que-cobre-por-articulos-personales-los-viajeros.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7 Dias<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4 April 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customs Agency made clear on Tuesday, 3 April 2018 that personal items are still duty free. Mentioned among these are clothing, laptop, camera, cell phone, and gifts for up to US$500. \u201cThe rights of passengers continue as they were. It is not true that duties need to be paid on the items categorized as personal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/04\/personal-items-enter-duty-free-says-customs-agency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}