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Can I bring sheepskins?
« on: November 17, 2015, 10:07:40 PM »
Random question I know, but in preparations to have our huge yard sale I'm thinking about what I can bring. We have two sheepskins that I love, one is just lovely and the other is very sentimental. I was thinking of bringing one in a suitcase with us, but I wonder if that's allowed through customs. Does anyone know?

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Re: Can I bring sheepskins?
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2015, 09:13:44 AM »
I brought fur coats with me.  No issues at all.

Before anyone yells at me they were my great-grandmothers!  I would not buy fur!   :)


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Re: Can I bring sheepskins?
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2015, 09:43:17 AM »
I did find this from the guidance regarding personal food, plant and animal product imports:

"Animal hides and skins (either with or without hairs/fur) must be tanned or they are illegal products. Tanning means the hardening of hides and skins using vegetable tanning agents, chromium salts or other substances such as aluminium salts, ferric salts, silicic salts, aldehydes and quinones or other synthetic hardening agents. There is no specific limit on the amount you can bring."

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/personal-food-plant-and-animal-product-imports

I am pretty sure what they mean is no raw animal skins. Like freshly butchered. Almost certainly your sheepskins have been treated, or they would be pretty rank by now.
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