How do you travel international with your gear?

[BrendanLeahy]

You will definitely want a Carnet coming into Canada. It should make things easier. As a Canadian often travelling to the U.S. the same is true. Most often any issues tend to be with immigration and not necessarily equipment and customs related.

Darn, that means it'd be way too costly for me since I'm just a volunteer with my time and services :/

 

[Tom Dowler]

Here's the thing about Carnet's that they never tell you: virtually *no* customs officials in any country know how to use them correctly.

So you need to make sure you do. Which is tricky because they're slightly complicated. But make sure you know exactly who is supposed to sign/stamp which page, which page they need to remove if any, etc. If they get it wrong, your carnet could get rejected *after* you're back in your home country and then you'll have to pay import duty like you bought the stuff somewhere else.