I don't know what the official line on DVDs etc is but I can tell you my experience in October last year. We shipped all our stuff from the UK. When it arrived at this end we were contacted by a local handler who organised it to go through customs and did all the paperwork and delivered it to our house. When it arrived the box containing all of our DVDs, videos CD roms were missing. The handler said that they had been confiscated but would be viewed and released back to us. He gave us a number to contact and we called, they said no problem come and collect. My husband went to this place that had loads of tv screens, dvd players etc to view them and collected them after they had checked them. Apart from the hassle, it didn't cost anything and we got them all back in the end.They didn't touch the PC, printer, scanner or any of our electrical items (they arrived with the rest of the stuff) but we did have to pay a charge, it can't have been very much or I would remember how much it was. I hope this helps!