You have to file export declaration when moving more than $2500 of anything out of the country (except personal stuff for vacations or whatever). You also have

You have to file export declaration when moving more than $2500 of anything out of the country (except personal stuff for vacations or whatever). You also have to declare gold when you enter if it's over a certain amount. Vague rules in the CFR (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/1020.210 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/1020.210) based off vague laws from the 70s and 80s are the basis of billions of dollars in fines collected by the government every year. This vagueness makes it possible for them to continually shift the goalposts without an act of congress, i.e. what passes for a bank compliance program in 2023 is much different than what passed in 2005 even though none of the underlying statutes have changed very much.