Overseas Faculty Manual - Packing Tips for Using Airlines

Call your airline for baggage allowance information as it varies from one airline to another, as well as from one season to another.

Duffel bags, hockey bags and large suitcases are quite useful for bringing your belongings to Lima. Taped cardboard boxes are not recommended as suitcases, but you should check with your airlines before bringing cardboard boxes.

For transporting your luggage and belongings from home of record to Lima, either transporting via airline or via shipping, the school will provide you with an allowance of US$ 700 per adult and US$ 350 for each authorized dependent less than 12 years of age.

Option #1 Bringing Personal Items with you on your flight

This is by far the most preferred way of getting your personal belongings to Lima.

Please be aware that passengers will only be allowed 2 bags with a maximum weight per piece of 50 pounds (23 kg). Each piece is limited to a girth (l + w + h) of 62 inches or 157 cm. If the weight is between 50 to 70 pounds, you would have to pay US$25 plus tax (19%). If the weight is more than 70 pounds, you would be charged an additional US$ 25 for each additional pound. If you have more than two pieces, you will be charged US$100 for each piece each way plus the 19% tax.

You are allowed only one carry-on per passenger, and the allowed girth is 45 inches or 114 cm.

The following items are duty free:

• Personal clothing
• Personal hygienic articles (cosmetics, etc.)
• Objects of personal use and attire
• Hair dryer, curling brush, curling iron
• Electric shaver or electric epilator
• 1 Camera or digital Camera
• Up to ten rolls of film or 2 memory sticks as long as you are carrying too the articles these rolls or memory sticks are for.
• 1 Movie Camera and all related components
• Twenty CD's, records, cassettes (per person)
• Ten video cassettes for VHS (per person)
• Ten video CD's or Video Games
• 1 Electronic calculator
• 1 Lap Top ( one per person)
• 1 cellular phone
• Personal medication
• Books, magazines and documents in general
• Up to 20 packets of cigarettes, fifty cigars, 250 grams tobacco for pipe smoking
• 3 liters of liquor per adult
• Up to $300 of various articles for personal use or for gifts which are not to be sold. No single article should exceed the amount of $100.
• Portable electric or manual typewriter (a computer will be assessed duty).
• 1 Musical instruments (guitarr, flute, violin, etc)
• 1 Radio or tape recorder or CD player and record player, DVD or portable sound system
• 1 Domestic animal (pet) always complying with the corresponding health regulations, paperwork and airline information. Not during July! You must comply with the corresponding health regulations, paper workd and airline regulations.

If you bring articles not mentioned on this list (one of each) and all together do not exceed US$ 1000 per trip, you will not need to declare them to customs (a maximum of US $ 3,000 in a year). If it exceeds that amount you will need to declare them and pay a 14% tax duty according to the value of Peru custom lists.

If you purchase NEW items for your shipment, we recommend that you take them out of their plastic wrappings and remove all price tags.