Customs Declaration Form for Thai or Foreign Currency or Negotiable Monetary Instruments — Thailand

The Customs Declaration Form for Thai or Foreign Currency or Negotiable Monetary Instruments (แบบแจ้งรายการเงินตราไทย หรือเงินตราต่างประเทศ หรือตราสารเปลี่ยนมือ) is a form of the Thai Customs Department (กรมศุลกากร). A traveller uses it to declare Thai baht, foreign currency and bearer negotiable instruments brought into or taken out of Thailand.

The form is bilingual (Thai and English) and is completed in block letters. Page 1 is the declaration itself, page 2 is a summary of the rules.

According to the notes on the back of the form, you must declare when entering or leaving Thailand with:

• Thai currency or negotiable instruments with the payee’s name omitted worth over 450,000 baht;
• foreign currency or such instruments worth over USD 15,000 or the equivalent in another currency;
• any combination of the above worth over 450,000 baht or the equivalent.

For taking Thai banknotes and coins out of the country, the notes also require permission from the Bank of Thailand: over 2,000,000 baht when travelling to Vietnam, Yunnan Province (China) and countries bordering Thailand (Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia); over 50,000 baht when travelling to other countries.

According to the form, failing to declare or making a false declaration is a criminal offence. The thresholds are quoted from the official form; rules may change — check with Customs before travelling.

The traveller — a Thai national or a foreigner — hands the declaration to a customs officer when passing through customs at any border checkpoint: an airport, a seaport or a land border.

The form states no fee.

• family name, first and middle name, nationality, passport number, date of birth, sex, occupation, home address;
• arrival or departure, means of transport, flight or vehicle number, country of origin, transit countries and next destination;
• cash amounts by currency (THB, USD, EUR, JPY, CNY, GBP and others);
• bills of exchange, promissory notes, cheques and other instruments — amount and currency;
• source of the funds and intended use (personal expenses, business, education, other);
• date and signature; the “for official use only” box is completed by Customs.

• your passport;
• the cash and instruments listed in the declaration;
• papers showing where the money comes from (bank statement, bank letter, contract) — the form asks for the source of funds; check with Customs whether they are needed in your case;
• Bank of Thailand permission if you take out baht above the thresholds in the notes.

1. Tell the chat whether you are bringing money in or taking it out, and which amounts in which currencies.
2. Answer the questions about your passport and trip; data from your profile is filled in automatically.
3. Check the PDF: all fields are in Latin capital letters and the right boxes are ticked.
4. Print, sign and hand it to the customs officer at the checkpoint.

Official form of the Thai Customs Department: https://www.customs.go.th/data_files/9756869f47d3deb658484037268f3bb5.pdf. Information checked on 2026-10-08.