India airports post-immigration xray check purpose?

5/20/2017 2:50:41 AM

jpatokal’s answer does not explicitly mention gold and silver- which will be found via x-ray examination.

My understanding is that India tries to reduce the amount of gold/silver imported to reduce the trade deficit. This page (http://nriinformation.com/faq1/questions_2.htm) indicates that the first kilo of gold imported is dutied at 10%; additional gold is dutied at 36.05%. This size of duty will mean some people will try to smuggle the gold in.

I have read in the past that gold smuggling into India is/was a huge thing. The James Bond novel Goldfinger used it as a plot point.

5/3/2015 10:13:31 AM

It’s not about security (which would obviously be way too late), it’s about taxes. India has heavy Customs duties and they’re trying to catch people bringing in undeclared electronics, alcohol, tobacco, drugs etc, much of which is clearly visible on an X-ray.

India is by no means alone in this: eg. Indonesia and Saudi Arabia X-ray all incoming bags, and eg. Singapore randomly (or not) selects some travellers to have their bags scanned.

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