Travellers
- Information for travellers
- Quick guide to Customs for travellers
- Guide for travellers - 'know before you go'
(955 Kb) - Guide for travellers is also available in foreign languages - click here for translations
- Goods exported in passenger baggage form (Form B263)
- Buying over the internet
- Yachts travelling to and departing from Australia
- International flights at non international airports
- Information for Airline and Aircraft Operators on Customs requirements for passengers and crew
- Articles in possession - aircrew
- Tourist Refund Scheme
- Passenger movement charge
- Passenger Cards
- Military Personnel
Migrant concessions
As a first-time migrant or returning Australian resident, you are entitled to bring back with you to Australia, duty and GST free, all your personal and household effects that you have owned and used for the whole of the period of 12 months immediately preceding your departure for Australia.
Certain items are expressly excluded from the definition of "personal and household effects" and are subject to other requirements. These include:
- motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts
- caravans, boats and trailers
- aircraft
- machinery, plant and equipment
- and fur apparel.
As part of the Australian Government's efforts to promote a high standard of integrity in international business transactions, Customs reminds travellers that the bribing of foreign officials is a crime prosecutable under Australian law. The criminal penalties are significant, and include the possibility of imprisonment. For more detail on this issue, visit the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department's web site.