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Cash and/or equivalent assets

If you are travelling with, sending or receiving cash worth €10,000 or more you may have to notify customs, and account for its origin and intended use.

To prevent money laundering and organised crime, and fight terrorism financing there are rules for introducing and removing large amounts of cash across the EU border. Different rules apply depending on whether you are travelling, or sending or receiving cash.

Besides notes and coins, “cash and equivalent assets” is also defined as:

  • traveller’s cheques
  • cheques
  • promissory notes
  • investment gold (with a gold content of at least 90.5 %)
  • gold coins (with a gold content of at least 90.5 %).

Travelling with cash

If you are going to bring the equivalent of 10 000 euros or more in cash when you travel across Sweden's border, you must report it to Swedish Customs. The easiest way to do this is to register online. You can also submit a declaration on the form to a customs officer at the border.

Travelling with cash

Sending or receiving cash

If you are planning to send or receive cash worth more than €10,000 by mail or parcel, you must be able to demonstrate, upon request, the origin of the funds and their intended use.

Swedish Customs monitors cash movements

Swedish Customs has the right to search for cash in vehicles, luggage, handbags, letters and parcels. If there are reasons to believe that a person has not reported that they are travelling with cash we may perform a bodily search. We also have the right to temporarily seize cash worth €10,000 or more, if we have reasons to believe that it is incorrectly or not fully declared, or that the cash (even if it is worth less than EUR 10 000) is related to criminal acts.

For information about entry and exit requirements for cash in other countries, please contact your travel agency or the embassy or consulate of your country of destination. Find contact information to the Foreign Office, embassies and consulates on Sweden Abroad’s website.

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