Importing art and/or medication into Argentina

[TomAtAlki]

Has anyone imported via mail or fedex art work or medications from the US? Did it make it? Any duty on art or meds?

thanks T/

 

[jeff1234]

Have you tried tiendamia.com?

 

[Tilda]

Importing any medication is very difficult. I haven’t tried, but have stood in line behind someone who was trying to get her vitamins. Before you try you should get a step by step instruction from aduana. Even then, who knows. Hopefully someone with actual experience can weigh in on the matter.

 

[jblaze5779]

Coworker tried to get an american prescription sent from the states and none of the carriers here would touch it. I forget how he finally got it but it was an ordeal involving the dreaded escribeanas and took a couple months.

 

[sergio]

There is medication you can't get in Argentina?

 

[jblaze5779]

There is medication you can't get in Argentina?

yes, they have equivalents here but they have additional side effects.

 

[sergio]

Interesting. Where is the medication in Argentina manufactured? Where does the medicine you get from the US come from?

 

[on the brink]

A couple of years ago my neighbor sent me a medication I had left behind. She flattened the box and mailed it in one of those cushioned Post Office envelopes. Was dropped in my mailbox by the regular carrier.

 

[jblaze5779]

Interesting. Where is the medication in Argentina manufactured? Where does the medicine you get from the US come from?

I suppose it kinda like buying antibiotics here vs in the US. Here you can buy them over the counter. In the US you need a prescription. That particular drug just might have been approved by the argentina FDA equivalent. If I recall it was an antidepressant.