Customs

CUSTOMS

Customs is a public office or fiscal institution established in coasts and frontiers. Customs register the international merchandise traffic that is imported or exported from or to a country. Customs also charge tax that is owed.

Customs regulate people traffic too, and it also regulates resources. Customs’ rights are also named tariff customs. Government is the only one who has this right and this is a useful source to the Treasury Department. Another justification of this customs’ right is the protection of the national production through the tax rising of foreign merchandise.

With it, national production favours itself to brake the foreign one. This protection, in extreme, is known as forbiddenness.

At present in customs there’re also indirect taxes on consumption and others.
Customs’ rights are on foreign merchandise, own merchandise and re-exported.

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All passengers have to pass a security control, going through metal detector and putting their hand-baggage and all the other things through an X-ray detector. Moreover, passengers could be submitted to a manual random inspection.

To make the objects passage easier through the scanner some special trays must be used.

Passengers must:

·Take off their jacket and/or coat and put them in the tray. These clothes have to be examined separately while passengers are inspected.

·Take out laptop and any other big electronic devices, and put them in the tray to be examined.

·Passengers should take off their belts and pass them through metal detector.

·Passengers with metal prosthesis have to tell security person their special situation.

·Security people can ask passengers to take off their shoes to examine them.

Handbag

Passengers can carry light things.
European rules restricts the quantity of liquids that we can pass through security control.

Liquids:

· Water, drinks, soups and syrups.
· Creams, pastes and oils.
· Perfumes.
· Shower gels and shampoos.
· Deodorant…

Usual questions

How many kilos of baggage can I take in an airplane?

· If you travel in tourist class, you can take until thirty kilos. If you take more than thirty kilos, you will have to pay that quantity.

Where are flight billed out of T4?

· All flights are checked on the second floor.

There are different signs with the name of air companies in the access gate of T4’s departures.

You should confirm the flight’s number and the check-in desk where you have to check in. After that, on your boarding card you will find the boarding door of your flight.

When you have passed the security filter, if your boarding door is H, J or K (Schengen or Iberia’s flights to London and Dublin), you will have to go straight right and go down to Floor 1, where the boarding gates are.

The Iberia’s shuttle service is in an exclusive zone, on the left back of second floor of T4.

Remember: if your flight goes from T4, consult with your air company the time of check in. Take your time and you will avoid unforeseen situations.