Getting your personal belongings confiscated at Dubai Airport isn’t a pleasant experience. To avoid such a situation, you need to know what you are allowed and what you are not allowed to bring in with you. Below, you’ll find a comprehensive list of rules regarding customs in Dubai. If you need more information or would like to contact the Dubai customs authority, visit www.dxbcustoms.gov.ae
Permitted Items
Passengers are permitted to bring the following items into Dubai International Airport without paying customs duty:
- Gifts whose value does not exceed AED 3,000
- The Number of cigarettes shall not exceed 400 cigarettes, 50 cigars, 500 grams of tobacco (minced or pressed for pipes), minced or pressed tobacco for smoking, tobacco or mild-tasting tobacco
- The amount of alcoholic beverage and beer shall not exceed 4 litres for alcohol beverages; or 2 cartons of beer (each consisting of 24 cans, not exceeding 355 ml for each can or its equivalent)
- Still and moving image video cameras with their appropriate tapes, films and accessories
- Projectors for displaying slides and films including accessories and agreeable quantities of slides and films
- Telescopes
- Portable music equipments
- Radio systems, combined broadcasting apparatus, CD and DVD players with agreeable quantities
- Mobile telephone
- Portable TV sets
- Portable typing sets
- Computers including laptops
- Portable calculators
- Baby cars
- Disabled wheelchairs and cars
- Sports equipment
- Cash money, currencies and travellers cheques less than AED 40,000; and the passenger’s age shall not be less than 18 years old
Exemption Conditions:
Exemption shall be subject to the following conditions and controls:
- The baggage and gifts must be of a personal nature and not in commercial quantities.
- The passenger must not enter the country with goods on a regular basis, be a trader in what he possesses or a member of the respective conveyance crew.
- Passengers below 18 years of age may not bring cigarettes or alcoholic beverages into the country.
- Prohibition and restriction procedures shall be applicable to items or belongings accompanying passengers.
Duty Free Allowances: Same as Above
Items that must be declared
- Narcotics of all kinds
- Weapons, ammunition and military equipment
- Radios, striking appliances, self-defence equipment and cold steel
- Domestic and endangered animals subject to CITES Convention (hides, ivory & stuffed animals)
- Currencies (more than USD 10,000 or AED 40,000 or the equivalent in other currencies)
- Goods of commercial value (exceeding AED 3,000 in value)
- Trees, plants & soil
- Films, Books, Visual & Compact discs
- Fire works & explosives
- Medicines of all kinds
Medicine
- Passengers cannot carry medicines in bulk quantity, even if it is for personal use. It may be impounded and can result in a criminal case.
- To bring prescriptive drugs into Dubai, a prescription from the passenger’s doctor is required for the period the passenger will be staying in Dubai.
- Special permission from the Ministry of Health may be required in order to bring more than a convincible quantity of medicine into Dubai.
- As per customs rule, all types of medicines are subject to the approval of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services.
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