BANGKOK - The Suvarnabhumi Airport Passenger Control Customs Bureau will calculate the value of all personal items - souvenirs, gifts or brandname goods - purchased overseas.
If the combined value of those products exceed B10,000, passengers and airline crew will have to pay import duty.
Mr.Somchai Asawadtriratanakul, the bureau’s chief of investigation and suppression division, said the regulation is going to exist, but enforcement have to be more stricter.
The bureau found many people brought in new products for resale in Thailand without paying import duty.
Gifts prepared to give to other people, donated items, collectable items, second-hand goods, empty watch and brandname bag boxes are not considered as personal items.
Individuals bringing in these products have to inform customs officials before the baggage X-ray.
The department said food,and food supplements, cosmetic will not get the duty waiver.
Travellers are limited to 200 baht duty free cigarettes and one litre of duty free liquor or wine.
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