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Frozen Food in Belize
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momdddd
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| My family of ten is going to Belize for ten days. We are renting a house and would like to know if you can bring frozen food into Belize for your personal consumption?
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nealw
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Joined: 11 Apr 2005
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Location: Indianapolis, IN
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Well to start you will need to declare it:
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"Entering Belize, travelers must declare plants, fruits, vegetables, meats, live animals, arms or ammunition, or more than BZ$10,000 or its equivalent in other currencies, approximately $5,000(USD). "
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Belize Customs URL: http://www.customs.gov.bz
Traveler Information: http://www.customs.gov.bz/traveller_info.html
According to the Traveler Information page you can bring in food items, and assuming they are allowed into the country (pass inspection) you will need to pay a duty (rather heafty) based on the value of what you are bringing in.
As an example from their site: Duty on Ham
Import Duty - 35% of value
Sales Tax -- 9% of (Import Duty + value)
Environmental Tax - 2% of value
It may be a little more expensive to buy food in Belize when you arrive but it seems to be a rather big hassle to try and bring it in. But you should contact the their customs office at the link above to find out more.
Have a great trip!
Also...
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LIST OF GOODS REQUIRING QUARANTINE INSPECTION UPON IMPORTATION
From: http://www.customs.gov.bz/duty04.html
Live Plants - Includes trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants root, and bulbs
Fruits and vegetables - Fresh, canned or processed.
Live animals
Animal Products and subproducts - Fresh, frozen, smoked canned cured dried or salted meat, meat meal, hams, turkeys, sausages, bacon, lard, oil and derivatives, blood and derivatives, meat and bone meal, hooves, skull bone for trophies or musiums, hides, skin, wool, hair bristle or feather, semen, milk and milk products, butter, cheese, eggs.
Nursery stock and cuttings
Cut flowers
Grains - wheat, rice, corn sorghum
Seeds
Segumes - Beans peas
Cultural and Biological organism e.g. insects
Spices
Nuts - peanuts, almonds
Herbs
Soil - rocks, minerals
Packing material - straw, hull, hay, stalk, and stems.
Used Vehicles - imported by sea
Fertilizer - organic or inorganic
Lumber
Animal feed
Veterinary Biological Products - Vaccines, serums antigen, hormones and enzymes
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