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Import of Passenger baggage - Misuse of Baggage Rules |
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| 13-10-2007 | |||||||||||||||||
As per the provisions of Baggage Rules, 1998, a passenger is allowed to import Bonafide baggage in the following manner:
Now, CBEC has realized that the scheme of Baggage Rules is being misused in the following manner: "It is reported that a single passenger arriving into India brings goods said to be belonging to several other persons as his unaccompanied baggage and that clearance of all such goods was being permitted at some of the airports/Customs station without invoking any penal provisions. Colloquially this is referred to as "door-to-door delivery" traffic". Therefore, CBEC has issued a circular no. 35/3007 dated 28-09-2007 for the purpose of preventing the misuse, by stating: "It is, therefore, reiterated that all the provisions of Customs Act, 1962 and Baggage Rules, 1998 are applicable to unaccompanied baggage as they are applicable to baggage (accompanied), except the free allowance which is not available for unaccompanied baggage". |
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