Customs to crack down on smuggled cash

A news source from the ministry said that the number of persons caught carrying a large sum of cash without declaring it to officials at the airport, both on incoming and outgoing trips, had increased tenfold since the end of the Covid-19 lockdown. The most common foreign currencies are US dollars, euros, and the Japanese yen.

The Customs Department allows individuals to carry no more than 50,000 baht in cash in and out of the kingdom. For travellers to countries sharing a border with Thailand (Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia), as well as to Vietnam and China’s Yunnan province, the limit is 2 million baht.

However, those carrying more than 450,000 baht in cash must declare it to officials at the customs checkpoint.

For foreign currency, there is no limit for either incoming or outgoing trips, but those carrying more than US$15,000 or equivalent in cash must declare it to…