After countries go thru all the trouble of taxing imports, why then would they allow ppl to just buy whatever they want duty free? Why do these shops exist? What benefit do they serve? And why are they only at airports?
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It’s worth noting beyond what others said that when in an airport security zone from an international flight, you are sort of outside of the direct jurisdiction of any country and are in a sort of international area. It’s also why some people who were wanted by certain countries or stateless end up living in the security area of an airport. It’s a rare thing, but it does happen.
If you find yourself in a place where the country the airport is in is unwilling to grant you a visa, and where you flew from won’t accept your documents for a return flight, you have basically nowhere to go, and leaving airport security areas would be illegal border crossing.
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