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@Dammit
Here's a question for you - and context here is that I've never had issues with this.
In the old days it used to be common for the border control agent (whether that was police or customs) to mark in your passport if you had a camera with you - a valuable item that you might sell when you were in the country in question, and would have avoided import duty.
If when you left said country without the camera and they checked your passport you then had to pay import duties (calculated on the spot), even if the camera had been stolen from you.
My girlfriend had to get a Carnet for the bikes that her company took over to NAHBS in order to avoid paying import duty on them (as they were bringing them back again).
Question is this - when we leave the EU at the end of the year are we going to have to get used to having "Cannondale bike, 8,000€" written in our passports, or do we think this is a thing of the past?
I've never had any issue travelling to the US with my bike, I would note.