Key Highlights:
1.During the month of May 2025, Thai customs seized illegal goods worth approximately 12.56 million Thai baht, including e-cigarettes, cigarettes, diesel, and gasoline.
2.This crackdown involved multiple customs offices and border checkpoints, successfully intercepting several batches of illegal goods.
3.During the inspection operation, e-cigarettes and their devices were the main focus, with a total value of approximately 742.94 million Thai Baht seized.
According to a report from the Bangkok Post on May 27th, Thai customs conducted a large-scale crackdown on illegal goods in the month of May, with a total value exceeding 12.56 million Thai baht ($38,000). The confiscated illegal goods included e-cigarettes, cigarettes, diesel, and petrol, with a total value exceeding 12.56 million Thai baht.
Pantong Loykunan, development consultant and spokesman for customs revenue, pointed out that the success of this operation was due to the ongoing monitoring and on-site inspections conducted by customs offices across different regions.
During a private courier company inspection in Songkhla Province, the Fourth Customs District and Hat Yai Airport Border Patrol seized a total of 22,136 e-cigarettes and related devices, valued at 6.92 million Thai baht. Meanwhile, in a routine patrol at the Su-ngai Kolok Border Patrol Station, authorities discovered and confiscated approximately 1,646 e-cigarettes worth around 400,000 Thai baht. Additionally, the Sungai Kolok Border Patrol Station seized 552 e-cigarettes with a market value of 100,000 Thai baht. The total value of all confiscated e-cigarettes is nearly 7.4294 million Thai baht (about $220,000).
The spokesperson for the customs department added that from October 1, 2024, to May 26, 2025, customs has seized over 1.06 million e-cigarettes and their devices, with a total value of over 1.11 billion Thai Baht (about $3.4 million).
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