Amendments to Customs Baggage Declaration Regulations

🔮AS per the Customs Baggage Declaration Regulations, 2013,🔮

🍄passengers who come to India are required to declare their accompanied baggage in Form I appended to the regulation.

✳If you are bringing the items mentioned in the Form-I;

• Prohibited Articles
• Gold jewellery (over Free Allowance)
• Gold Bullion
• Meat and meat products/dairy products/fish/poultry products
• Seeds/plants/seeds/fruits/flowers/other planting material
• Satellite phone
• Indian currency exceeding Rs. 10,000/
• Foreign currency notes exceed US $ 5,000 or equivalent
• Aggregate value of foreign exchange including currency exceeds USD 10,000 or equivalent.

👉🏽you are required to report to the Customs Officer at the Red Channel counter.

👉🏽The Form also mentions that you are allowed a duty free allowance of

Rs. 35,000 and

you can bring in 200 cigarettes or

50 cigars or

250 grams of tobacco.

☑As per the Baggage Rules amended on 11th July 2014:

the free baggage allowance is Rs. 45,000

duty free - 100 cigarettes or 25 cigars or 125 grams of tobacco.

🍎🍎SUMMARY🍎🍎

👉🏽You can bring in

• Duty free goods, worth Rs. 45,000/-
• Indian rupees up to Rs. 25,000/-
• 100 cigarettes or 25 cigars or 125 grams of tobacco
• 2 litres of liquor
• One laptop computer
• Jewellery worth Rs. 100,000/50,000 depending upon whether you are a lady or gentleman and
• Flat Panel (LCD/LED/Plasma) Television is not allowed duty free.