Airports Embarkation Ruls of Bangladesh


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Customs: Tourist can bring in free of duty personal wearing apparel and other personal effects exclusively meant for their own use including jewellery worth Ta. 3000.00 and gift items worth Ta.500.00.
Baggage Rules:- Non-tourist passenger (incoming) Baggage Rules amended upto 13th November 1994 are as follows-




  1. Any item brought as baggage, but not falling in the category of personal and household effects is subject to the payment of customs duty, value added tax and supplementary duty.
  2. Any passenger arriving by air or sea carrying with him handbag, cabin bag, or two suitcases upto 32 inches in length or two cartoons, bags or sacks weighting not exceeding 65kg irrespective of size containing personal and household effects shall be exempted fro customs, value added and supplementary taxes. Personal and household effects brought in suit cases in excess of the allotted two suitcases are subject to the payment of customs duty, value added and supplementary duty. However, books, magazines and educational item if brought in a third suitcase can also be cleared duty-free.
  3. Any item brought as baggage in commercial quantity is subject to payment of customs duty, value added tax and supplementary duty.
  4. Bangladeshi citizens are not permitted to import alcohol or alcoholic beverage and cigarette as baggage. But only foreign national can import one bottle or up to 1/6 gallon of spirituous beverages that is spirits, wines, beer and 200 sticks of cigarettes without customs duty.
  5. A micro-computer can be imported on returnable basis by a Bangladeshi citizen residing abroad provided he submits a personal undertaking that the micro-computer will be re-exported within three months.
  6. A passenger may import as baggage some items on payment of fixed amount as customs duty, value added tax and supplementary duty.  

Currency Regulation:- A tourist may bring in any amount of foreign exchange in the form of Traveler’s cheque, foreign currency notes or other foreign currency instruments provided he makes a written declaration at the time of entry in the Currency Declaration Form (Form FMJ) obtainable from the customs at the port of entry. However no declaration is required for bringing in of foreign exchange upto 5000US Dollars by foreign tourists. While leaving Bangladesh a tourist can take out the unspent balance of the foreign currency brought in.
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