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SINGAPORE \u2013 Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers on Nov 2 caught a man attempting to bring in trading cards worth about $400,000 into Singapore during a baggage screening at Changi Airport.<\/p>\n
The man, who was arriving at Changi Airport\u2019s Terminal 4, was directed to the baggage screening area and asked if he had anything to declare, ICA said in a Facebook post on Nov 6.<\/p>\n
He declared that he was carrying two pieces of trading cards, but officers who screened his luggage noticed anomalies in one of the bags, the authority added.<\/p>\n
After a thorough check, officers found 105 trading cards related to the manga and anime series One Piece worth about $400,000 in total, alongside a luxury branded bracelet.<\/p>\n
Rare One Piece trading cards can sell for thousands of dollars, with a Korean serialised top prize card featuring protagonist Monkey D. Luffy fetching US$440,420 (S$563,535) at auction in May.<\/p>\n
The case was referred to the Singapore Customs for further investigation, ICA said.<\/p>\n
In its Facebook post, ICA also reminded travellers to declare and pay duty and GST on items purchased overseas<\/span><\/a> that exceed the duty-free concession and GST relief.<\/p>\n Those who are not sure if they need to declare their items should declare at the Red Channel or at the Singapore Customs Tax Payment Office, ICA said.<\/p>\n According to the Singapore Customs website, travellers who have been overseas for 48 hours or more are entitled to GST relief on up to $500 for goods bought overseas, excluding liquor and tobacco. For trips under 48 hours, the value is capped at $100.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers on Nov 2 caught a man attempting to bring in trading cards worth about $400,000 into Singapore…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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