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SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1990

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TRAVELLERS URGED TO OBSERVE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE REQUIREMENTS

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THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT HAS REMINDED PEOPLE WHO TRAVEL OVERSEAS DURING THE LUNAR NEW YAER HOLIDAYS NOT TO BRING BACK TO HONG KONG PROHIBITED ITEMS WITHOUT VALID IMPORT LICENCES.

MAN

ASSISTANT AN

COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS AND

MR EXCISE,

TERRITORY SHU-HUNG, SAID THE IMPORTATION OF PROHIBITED ITEMS INTO THE WAS GOVERNED BY LAW AND LICENCES

REQUIRED IN ADVANCE BY THE AUTHORITIES CONCERNED.

WERE

PROHIBITED ITEMS INCLUDE NARCOTICS, CERTAIN MEDICINAL. DRUGS, SOME ARMS AND AMMUNITION, FIREWORKS, STRATEGIC COMMODITIES, TEXTILES, ANIMALS AND PLANTS, AND MEAT AND POULTRY.

"TRAVELLERS ARE LIABLE TO PROSECUTION IF THEY BRING INTO HONG KONG ANY OF THESE PROHIBITED ITEMS WITHOUT A LICENCE.

"A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE DOES NOT EXEMPT A PERSON FROM BRING BE A PROSECUTED WHEN HE IS CARRYING A PROHIBITED ARTICLE WHICH MIGHT SOUVENIR FOR HIMSELF ONLY, HE SAID.

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OFFICERS MR MAN ALSO REMINDED TRAVELLERS TO DECLARE TO CUSTOMS

COSMETICS AND MERCHANDISE ANY LIQUORS, TOBACCO, CIGARETTES, CIGARS, IMPORTED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.

FREE

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ARE ONLY "LOCAL RESIDENTS, WHO HOLD HONG KONG IDENTITY CARDS, ALLOWED TO BRING IN

OF DUTY ONE LITRE OF STILL. WINE, CIGARETTES re 25 CIGARS OR 125 GRAMS

TOBACCO, OF SMOKERS' MILLILITRES OF PERFUME AND 250 MILLILITRES OF TOILET WATER," HE SAID.

"PASSENGERS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE DO NOT QUALIFY FOR DUTY LIQUOR AND TOBACCO.

FREE

CARRY HTS

"AN INCOMING PASSENGER SHOULD NOTE THAT HE CAN ONLY OWN DUTY FREE ITEMS AND NOT THOSE OF HIS COMPANIES," HE ADDED.

BACK

KONG THESE GOODS

OVERSEAS FROM COUNTERFEIT GOODS

INCLUDE

WATCHES,

MR MAN ALSO APPEALED TO TRAVELLERS COMING NOT TO VIOLATE THE LAW BY BRINGING INTO HỌNG

COUNTRIES. THAT THEY BOUGHT IN OTHER

LEATHERWARE ITEMS AND SPORTING ITEMS.

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NOTICES STATING THE CONCESSION RIGHTS OF REQUIRED TO BF DECLARED TO CUSTOMS OFFICERS + IMPORT LICENCES ARE DISPLAYED AT THE ARRIVAL AND ALL CUSTOMS CONTROL POINTS.

TRAVELLERS,

ARTICLES

AND

ARTICLES REQUIRING DEPARTURE HALLS OF

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COPIES OF A LEAFLET, "ADVICE TO TRAVELLERS PROHIBITED ITEMS ·

INTO WEFICH INFORMS INCOMING PASSENGERS WHAT THEY CAN OR CANNOT BRING HONG KONG, ARE AVAILABLE AT THE CUSTOMS CONTROL POINTS.

MAY PUBLIC

ALSO

TELEPHONE THE CUSTOMS AND

MEMBERS OF THE EXCISE DEPARTMENT AT 8523185 FOR INFORMATION.

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