Travellers Concessions

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Commercial Goods
Duty Free Personal Effects
Crew Staff

Commercial Goods

If you are on a business visit and carrying commercial goods they may be subject to duty, where applicable.

If the goods are intended for temporary importation, you may have to arrange Security to cover duty, pending re-exportation.

If you are carrying commercial goods, goods for resale, or goods for use in your business, they will be subject to duty (where applicable) and Goods and Services Tax (GST). You should declare these goods on your arrival card and go to the "Goods to Declare Exit" (red channel).

If you have not arranged pre-clearance, the goods will be held under Customs control until an Import Declaration or informal clearance document (for goods with a Customs value of less than K1000) has been processed and cleared. You will not be able to take the goods with you from the airport until the import declaration has been assessed and any duty or GST payable has been paid.

Duty Free Personal Effects

This concession relates to goods which -

• are your own exclusive property;
• are or have been in your possession;
• are suitable and intended for your own use
• are not intended for commercial purposes; and
• are not imported in commercial quantities.

Thus Duty Free Personal Effects include -

• apparel of all kinds belonging to the passenger;
• personal articles of the type normally carried on your person or in your personal baggage including your normal jewellery, wrist watch, toilet requisites, cigarette lighter, hearing aid, walking stick, umbrella, thermos bottle (vacuum flask), fountain-pen set, spectacles, etc;
• exposed films depicting incidents of the passengers travel;
• photographic camera being one (1) camera of each type whether still or movie per passenger travelling alone or two (2) cameras being one of each type per family;
• portable computer for the passengers own use;
• sporting requisites, including sporting or camping equipments of travelling sportsmen and riding saddles (Please note such items may be examined and detained by Quarantine officers subject to any Quarantine restrictions that may apply);
• hand instruments of a kind used by medical, dental or veterinary professions;
• tradesman’s portable hand tools;

Cigarettes, cigars, tobacco and alcoholic liquor concessions

• Alcoholic liquor concession;
  Following goods belonging to a passenger who is aged (18) years or over:-
  two litres of alcoholic liquor including wine,
• Cigarettes, cigars, tobacco;
  250 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 250 grams chewing or smoking tobacco.

Note: Passengers under the age of (18) years are NOT allowed duty free admission of cigarettes, cigars, tobacco and alcoholic liquor/wine/beer.

General concession for other goods

1. other dutiable goods being non-commercial goods -
   1. in the case of a passenger aged (18) years or over – goods to a value not exceeding K1000.00 per passenger; and
   2. in any other case – (children below 18 years) – goods to a value not exceeding K500.00 per child – passenger, but excluding alcoholic liquors, tobacco, vehicles of all kinds, prohibitive drugs and goods carried on behalf of another person.

Please also note that this concession only applies to goods you have brought to PNG with you as part of personally owned and bona-fide accompanied baggage and that it does not apply to gifts, souvenirs, household goods less than twelve months old and other dutiable goods in your unaccompanied baggage unless of course, you have to come to PNG to take up residence for the first time.

Goods NOT included in the concession

Permissible concession for the goods not exceeding K1000.00 or K500.00 as the case may be, does not cover the following items. Therefore, Customs Duty is payable on the basis of their appropriate value adjudged by the Customs Officer on inspection/examination or taking into account the purchase receipts. These goods are:-

1. alcoholic liquors and tobacco products in excess of the quantity mentioned earlier,
2. travellers' samples,
3. vehicles of all kinds,
4. goods imported for the purpose of public exhibition or entertainment, ordinarily used for the purpose of profit or commercial sale,
5. goods in the unaccompanied baggage of a passenger.

TOURISTS AND SHORT TERM VISITORS

The concessions outlined in Part One in respect of articles or personal wear and articles of personal use, normally carried on your person or in your personal baggage, are also available when you come to PNG as a tourist or a short term visitor.

"Personal Undertaking"

As a tourist or short term visitor you may import other goods without payment of duty, however, a security in the form of a personal guarantee must be lodged to the satisfaction of the Customs for the payment of duty in the event the goods are not exported within 3 (three) months or such further time as the Commissioner of Customs may allow.

The concession is to enable you to use the goods while you are in PNG.

The goods must be exported when you depart the country, you are not allowed to sell, transfer or hire them to any other person or company while you are in PNG as otherwise duty is recoverable. The personal undertaking must be produced with the goods listed thereon at the port of your departure from Papua New Guinea.

CREW

Aircraft Crew – members on an international; flights are extended the following allowances:-

1. 250 cigarettes or their equivalent in tobacco products;
2. two litres of alcoholic liquor

Note: These concessions are granted to the individual crewmembers once at intervals of not less than 30 days from the date of previous concession was availed of.

• Aircraft and their crew on international flights, who are ordinarily domiciled in PNG, are eligible for a passenger concession once each calendar year. This concession can be taken on any trip during one calendar year, but not spread over more than one trip.
• Passenger Concessions granted to Aircraft Crews are to be recorded in “Crew Members Allowances and Registration Book”