Are there dutiable items in there as disclosed in the videos by the non-customs expert OFW? Yes, as some of the items have good value.
Would the value of the contents of the balikbayan boxes, shown by the OFWs on camera, be more than $500? Yes, or many of those boxes would, in today’s prices. The box is too emotionally precious and private to be opened by anyone, Customs authorities included. For these workers who never get to go home to save on travel money, the balikbayan box, a product of multiple months of savings, is a symbolic sentimental connection with their family. They are funny, but what they say about how they feel is no laughing matter for the OFWs’ family. The low-budgeted homemade videos, written, directed, and acted in by the OFWs themselves show them packing mostly ordinary things like canned goods, shirts (even used ones), shoes, vitamins, and perfume.
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