Hi,
   As a USer who lives overseas...

US Customs Law lets you take as much money as you want out of the
country, but, if you want to carry more than $10,000 in cash or cash equiv then you need to fill out  a form.  Your local Customs official will have 
a copy.  Note that this says nothing about whether or not your destination
country will allow you to bring the cash in.  I have never had this
particular problem :-(  This only applies to cash and cash equivs.  If 
you ask for a wire transfer or do things via a credit card the proper
reporting will be taken care of for you.

In most cases check cards are just like credit cards and are easily usable
overseas.  Note that on returning to the US you will get the oportunity
to declare the amount of goods purchased overseas.  Each citizen/perm res
gets $400 free.  There is some charge for going over this.  The advantages
of three kids is that I have never exceeded my allowance.

Note, of course, that this is only my experience.  A phone call to 
your local customs office might not be a bad idea.  Also, 10 of an item 
might be viewed differently than one of an item.  Things frequently
change for the more complex when it starts looking like you are a
business rather than just importing for yourself.  It always has been
my impression that spending more time with the nice customs folks was
to be avoided.  

Also, of course, I am neither a lawyer or a customs officer, nor do I 
play either on the net :-)

cheers

bruce

"John Duncan" <jddst19+ at pitt.edu> wrote:
> Folks-
> 
> I may be able to schedule a group purchase in February, as I have a
> friend who will be visiting his grilf then.  I'll have to look into
> the details.  U.S. customs law forbids the removal of a large amount
> of U.S. money, but I am not sure about the regulations for using a
> check card overseas.  If the money can be placed, then it may be
> possible to purchase a few of these machines.  If folks are
> interested, I'll start looking into it.  I have been considering
> getting one of these machines for myself, if the price is right.
> 
> -John
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Todd Nathan [mailto:todd.nospamski. at palomablanca.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 5:48 AM
> > To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: Re: Squeak on the Sharp iCruise
> >
> >
> > John and Yoshiki Ohshima,
> >
> > Both of you folks make me very much envious!  I saw the port
> > and it looked really, really GREAT at the BOF.
> >
> > John, did you get it thru some connections in Japan, online
> > or otherwise?
> > How much and did you get the new model?  Since you have someone
> > in the family that knows Japanese, would you put a quick doc
> > together on installing on the iCruise?  That way someone
> > like me without
> > knowledge of this language can install and get 'into' Squeak?  That
> > would be great, I want one, and now that the new pricing and model
> > have come out, I am going to buy one!  I also have a 292 G3, I hope
> > you don't mind my asking for help when I need it ;')
> >
> > \t
> >
> >