Central Government Departments

Diplomats of Indira Gandhi International Airport

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India is a signatory to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 which, interalia, governs the immunities from Customs duties and exemption of baggage of diplomatic personnel

Diplomatic and other staff are divided in various categories, for the purpose of Customs duties :

i. Head of the Mission – Ambassador, High Commissioner
ii. Career Counsular officers
iii. Administrative and Technical staff
iv. Locally recruited persons.

Diplomatic persons mentioned at (i) & (ii) above are entitled to exemption from inspection of their personal baggage unless there are serious grounds for believing that it contains articles not covered by exemptions or immunities available to them. The baggage is not be examined without prior consultation with the Protocol Division of the Ministry of External Affairs. Moreover, the baggage examination must only be undertaken in the presence of the diplomatic person or his authorised representative.

Exemption from Customs duties is available to all career consular officers throughout the tenure of their appointment in India. They can import personal and household effects and other articles, including motor vehicles, intended for their own use or for the use of their families till four months from the date of their first arrival to take-up their appointment in India. On the basis of reciprocity they have also been granted “tenure privileges” which entitle them to import their requirements as above throughout their tenure in India as long as they continue to normally reside in India and do not indulge in any gainful private occupation.

Members of administrative and technical staff are allowed the goods free of duty on their first arrival within the limits fixed under Baggage Rules.

Locally recruited staff is not entitled to any exemption..

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