Are you fed up by the rules and regulations of travel? Are you unsure of what you have to declare and what you don’t have to declare? Are you like me, in that you can never figure out anything without the help of a computer? Well, there’s an app for getting through customs.
The Dutch government, tired of having to distribute pamphlets and answer questions about customs and what you can and can’t bring into/out of the country, has developed the OK App, which is basically an app that tells you what’s acceptable and what’s unacceptable. It also helps you figure out the taxes on the goods, how much you can bring in without having to pay taxes, shoe size and clothing size differences, and currency conversion.
And it’s not just for the Netherlands, either. The OK app covers a wide variety of countries that anyone might be traveling to from the Netherlands. Hopefully something like this heads to America soon (or the Dutch code an English version). This is one of the reasons why smartphones were invented, to make traveling life easier!
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