Duty-free goods

Goods that may be imported duty free are often also exempt from VAT and other charges, which might otherwise apply.

• Aircraft equipment
• Ancillary materials for the stowage and protection of goods during their transport (in Swedish)
• Articles intended for people with disabilities (in Swedish)
• Capital goods imported on the transfer of activities from a third country (in Swedish)
• Consignments of negligible value
  
• Consignments sent to organisations protecting copyrights or industrial and commercial patent rights
• Educational, scientific and cultural materials
• Goods for charitable organisations
• Goods for embassies, consulates and international organisations
• Goods imported for examination, analysis or test purposes
• Goods intended for trade fairs (in Swedish)
• Goods to be used by monarchs or Heads of State
• Honorary decorations
• Importing using a Certificate of Airworthiness (in Swedish)
  
• Instruments and apparatus intended for medical research, establishing medical diagnoses or carrying out medical treatment
• Laboratory animals and biological or chemical substances intended for research
• Litter and feed for animals during their transport
• Materials for the construction, upkeep or ornamentation of memorials to, or cemeteries for, war victims
• Military equipment (in Swedish)
• Miscellaneous documents and articles
• Pharmaceutical products
• Pharmaceutical products used at international sports events
• Presents received in the context of international relations
• Printed matter and advertising material
• Products obtained by Community farmers on properties located in a third country adjacent to the EU
• Reference substance samples for the quality control of medicinal products
• Returned goods (in Swedish)
• Samples of goods
• Scientific instruments and apparatus (in Swedish)
• Seeds, fertilizers etc. imported by agricultural producers having their principal undertaking in a third country for use in properties in the EU
• Therapeutic substances of human origin and blood-grouping and tissue-typing reagents
• Tourist information literature