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If you don't want to go through that hassle, I would actually recommend you carry the receipts of the goods you are bringing into the US or have some way of showing you bought it in Canada. This will help identify the valuables that were in your possession before leaving the country.

If you are questioned about your goods when you return to Canada, show your card to the officer. This form is only available at the port of entry.
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When you show your valuables to a border services officer and state that you acquired them in Canada or lawfully imported them, the officer will list the valuables and their serial numbers on a wallet-sized card called a BSF407, Identification of Articles for Temporary Exportation. If the items do not have these markings, the CBSA can apply a sticker to them so that they can be identified for customs purposes as goods that are legally entering Canada. This service is available for items that have serial numbers or other unique markings.
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To prevent this scenario from happening on goods that you are bringing INTO the states, they recommend:īefore bringing highly valuable items with you when you travel outside Canada, you may wish to take advantage of a free identification service that is available at all CBSA offices. If you lied about it, bad things will happen. Now they ask YOU to prove that the laptop was purchased in Canada by providing a verifiable source. Anyway, they could probably deduce that the laptop is basically new. They might be able to look up the serial numbers too.

If they search your laptop, they can easily check the age (look at the file dates of certain files, look at the system information (Macs have lots of information including battery cycles), and there are utilities that report lots of information including build date. They don't believe you.and they want to search the contents. You say you bought it last month in Canada. They go through your belongings and find your laptop. They don't believe you and you have to go to a secondary check. You cross the border, and you say you didn't buy anything. I'm no expert, but let's play out a scenario: How are Canadian border guards going to prove that laptop wasn't with you when you exited Canada?
