Duty-free goods
Some goods are eligible for duty relief due to their specific circumstances
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
- Articles intended for handicapped persons
- Capital goods imported on the transfer of activities from a third country
- 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
- Goods to be used by monarchs or Heads of State
- Honorary decorations
- 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
- Low-value consignments
- Materials for the construction, upkeep or ornamentation of memorials to, or cemeteries for, war victims
- Military equipment
- 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
- Samples of goods
- Scientific instruments and apparatus
- Seeds, fertilizers etc. imported by agricultural producers having their principal undertaking in a third country for use in properties in the EU
- Tariff quotas
- Therapeutic substances of human origin and blood-grouping and tissue-typing reagents
- Tourist information literature
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