Comment by magicalhippo

Reminded me of when I got to see one of the customs declaration for an off-shore oil platform built here in Norway.

It was a single-item declaration: one oil plaform.

However, the elecronic customs message format didn't have enough digits to fit the item value, over a billion NOK IIRC.

After some calls with customs, they had to send it with a fictitious item value and add the true value in a free-text field.

This worked fine since there were no duties or taxes on exporting oil platforms, so no cross-checks that would fail.