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Australia: No chicken, dairy, meat, fruit, or vegetables unless it's retorted/shelf stable (Such as La Briute meals) shmebeble had issues with MealMart- 26 meals. Something Fishy was allowed sealed milk and cheese from the U.S.
Belize: Click here
Costa Rica: No raw meat (According to the Health Dept rep at LIR, it's meat on the bone that's an issue, he let us keep all the meat that had no bones - this may be relevant to other countries)
Galapagos: Extremely strict. Click here for more details.
Fiji: Same rules as Australia.
Maldives: No alcohol
Mexico: No beef or cream cheese. Chicken YMMV.
New Caledonia: Same rules as Australia.
New Zealand: Similar to Australia, some small differences but expect thorough checking
Nicaragua (land crossing): No issues with meat etc, but they taxed us for the 40 bottles of wine (I quickly mocked up a receipt on my phone showing the original price per bottle as $4)
Taiwan: no meat at all, even beef jerky or other dried meats. Even frozen airline meals are banned so no POM meals either (source).
United Kingdom: Click here
United States: No meat, fruit, or vegetables.


No issues experienced in:

Argentina
Aruba
Bahamas
Belgium
Bermuda
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Neum land crossing)
Brazil
Canada
Croatia (Debeli Brijeg and Neum land crossings, Zagreb)
Cuba
Czech Republic
Ecuador (NOT Galapagos - see the top section for that)
Faroe Islands
France
French Polynesia/Bora Bora
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Honduras (see here for important details)
Hong Kong
Iceland
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kenya
Lesotho (Sani Pass land crossing)
Macau
Madagascar
Malaysia
Martinique ($5,000 worth of wine, meat, dairy - no issues BH)
Malawi
Mauritius
Montenegro
Morocco
Norway
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Philippines
Sao Tome and Principe
Seychelles (Reports of them being strict but didn't have trouble)
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Svalbard
Switzerland
Tanzania
Thailand
UAE
Uganda
US/Guam
US/Hawaii
Vanuatu
Vietnam
Zambia
Zimbabwe

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Countries That Have Food Restrictions

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Dan:
Here are my experiences, share yours please!

Australia: No chicken, dairy, meat, fruit, or vegetables unless it's retorted/shelf stable (Such as La Briute meals)
Maldives: No alcohol
Mexico: No beef or cream cheese. Chicken YMMV.
United States: No meat, fruit, or vegetables.

No issues experienced in:
Argentina
Aruba
Bahamas
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Israel
France
Germany
Japan
Hong Kong
Israel
Italy
Macau
Norway
Palau
Singapore
South Korea
Svalbard
Switzerland
Thailand
UAE
UK
US/Guam
US/Hawaii

shaulyaakov:

--- Quote from: Dan on May 01, 2017, 06:30:09 PM ---Here are my experiences, share yours please!

Australia: No chicken, dairy, meat, fruit, or vegetables unless it's retorted/shelf stable (Such as La Briute/Meal mart meals)
Maldives: No alcohol
Mexico: No beef or cream cheese. Chicken YMMV.
United States: No meat, fruit, or vegetables.

No issues experienced in:
Argentina
Aruba
Bahamas
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Israel
France
Germany
Japan
Hong Kong
Israel
Italy
Macau
Norway
Palau
Singapore
South Korea
Svalbard
Switzerland
Thailand
UAE
UK
US/Guam
US/Hawaii

--- End quote ---
No fresh produce into or out of Hawaii (to mainland), except specially boxed.

Dan:

--- Quote from: shaulyaakov on May 01, 2017, 06:49:41 PM ---No fresh produce into or out of Hawaii (to mainland), except specially boxed.

--- End quote ---
No restrictions in. Out falls into the US rule.

MeirS:
Ireland: No meat or dairy whatsoever.

shmebeble:
Australia would not allow me to bring in the MealMart meals. Officially the food has to be cooked in the container originally and they would not budge.

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