Chocolate By Suvarnhabumi ?

[david555]

Traveling back to my Europe country and come back soon to Thailand i would bring back with me some home food things , especially Chocolate products , HOW MUCH IS ALLOWED TO BRING IN (checked luggage, no carry on one) WHITEOUT problems with customs, i seems not to find it on their customs site THX for reply"s

[londonthai]

each time I am coming back to bangkok I carry 5-6kg of chocolate (dark one) spread in my hand and hold luggage between the other items. Most of chocolate is wrapped in the kitchen foil, which prevents it from being seen clearly on the x-ray mashine.

I do buy the cheapest possible, but still quality one, with a minimum 50% coco solids, bought from tesco. Even if I lose it all, it's not a big loss

[munirkn]

If you buy from King's Power duty free, it will be little expensive but you can buy as much as you want and that's without the fair of loss

[PhilHarries]

I think you'd have to be bringing in a serious, and I mean SERIOUS, amount to, firstly, get detected and, secondly, get done by customs. Provided it's within the realms of "for personal consumption" I don't see a problem. I've taken many a kilo of quality (85% coco) chocolate via Thailand to a mate in Viet Nam sometimes in check in and sometimes in carry on and never a raised eyebrow.

[think_too_mut]

If you buy from King's Power duty free, it will be little expensive but you can buy as much as you want and that's without the fair of loss

Lovely. Packages of chocolate at 600B and 800B are "little expensive"?

I had to buy 1, gave them 1000B, 10 yawning and idling shop attendants had not made any sale on that day (3pm), the cash register was empty and one went to another shop to get change for me.

[tartempion]

I always bring kilos of real chocolate (Belgian, Swiss, French) together with other delicious stuff not available in Thailand.

Around 40kgs I would say.... never had problem.

Did bring a bread maker machine last time, although 2 models can be found at Verasu, it was a big box on top of my luggage caddy.

Before I could get through the green area a customs man walked up to me asking what it was inside the box (despite pictures on the box), told him without stopping, he smiled and said "oh make bread!!!" That was it.

[MeetJohnDoe]

Don't think there is any specific limit for processed foods like chocolate (as opposed to fresh foods). The only limitation would be the general limit for all goods of B 10,000 or around US$ 300. Excise/customs are mainly looking for high-tax goods like alcohol and tobacco products...confectionery goods aren't high on their priority list to my knowledge.

[david555]

I always bring kilos of real chocolate (Belgian, Swiss, French) together with other delicious stuff not available in Thailand.

Around 40kgs I would say.... never had problem.

Did bring a bread maker machine last time, although 2 models can be found at Verasu, it was a big box on top of my luggage caddy.

Before I could get through the green area a customs man walked up to me asking what it was inside the box (despite pictures on the box), told him without stopping, he smiled and said "oh make bread!!!" That was it.

THX to all reply"s , so i think i just bring my home chocolate products (Belgium)with me next time , i did not trusted those unpredictable customs and their fines

by this i thank you all next time

[londonthai]

I think you'd have to be bringing in a serious, and I mean SERIOUS, amount to, firstly, get detected and, secondly, get done by customs. Provided it's within the realms of "for personal consumption" I don't see a problem. I've taken many a kilo of quality (85% coco) chocolate via Thailand to a mate in Viet Nam sometimes in check in and sometimes in carry on and never a raised eyebrow.

a few kilos of chocolate doesn't bother the flight security but it might bother customs - it's more than a personal consumption, they well might think it's for re-sale. There is always a chance you will be x-rayed at random (although it happen to me twice, that all arriving passengers were scanned) and anything irregular will be detected and luggage manually searched, in which case customs might confiscate this chocolate. If it's an expensive chocolate, comparable to sold in duty free shops, than it will be calculated some 2k baht/kilogram - 5 kilos of this fancy chocolate has an estimated value $300.

if you don't want risking departure with you goods, than spread them equally in your luggage to avoid easy detection

[AsiaCheese]

If you buy from King's Power duty free, it will be little expensive but you can buy as much as you want and that's without the fair of loss

Am I missing something here? I always thought duty-free shops are prior to passing customs...

No matter where you bought your chocolate (or how much it cost, at that), if that customs bloke is having a real bad day, he can screw you out of a neat amount of cash. If you look at most countries' customs laws/specs, it's usually a pitifully small amount of stuff not regarded as "personal belongings" -- such as a tourist's underwear etc. -- that you're allowed to drag across a border without them being able to slap customs and/or VAT on it... in theory. That they're not really going after small-ish amounts of anything (legal) has to do the fact that they hate paperwork as much as you do and they have their share of being lazy on the job too But bring in too many cigarettes or alcohol, and the picture might change drastically.

[Ricardo]

On my last trip, on orders from 'she-who-must-be-obeyed', I had about 12 kgs of Xmas-sweets & chocolates for my kids & myself.

This was not a problem, but I did put it in different bags & carry-ons, that always seems a sensible precaution against one bag going astray during the journey !

The most I was ever charged by customs was 400 Baht, which I was happy to pay, anyway. I had put 8 packs of cereal all in the same suitcase.