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      • Prohibited and restricted exports
      • Find your parcel
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      • Send items overseas
      • Receive items from overseas
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      Move to NZ permanently

      • Right to residence
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      • Import pets and animals
      • Vehicles, boats and planes
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      • Duty and allowances
      • Gifts, Inheritance and Taonga
      • Household, personal effects, vehicles
      • What's My Duty estimator
      • FAQs
      • View all
    • Allowances and charges
    • Online shopping
    • Paying Customs
    • Prohibited and restricted items
    • View all
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    • Import
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      Import

      • Start importing
      • Prohibited and restricted imports
      • Import animals
      • Commercial ships and cruise liners
      • Lodge your import entry
      • Valuation for import
      • Preferential tariff duty rates
      • Customs rulings
      • Customs exchange rates
      • Import payments and refunds
      • Deferred accounts for importers
      • Deferred accounts for brokers
      • Import forms and documents
      • View all
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      • Start exporting
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      Excise

      • What is excise?
      • Apply for a licence
      • Lodge your excise entry
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      • Pay excise duty and other charges
      • Apply for excise duty credit or drawback
      • Moving excisable items
      • Changing, suspending or cancelling your licence
      • Amend, surrender or transfer your licence
      • Change your entry or payment timeframe
      • Customs-controlled areas
      • Excise forms and documents
      • View all
    • Doing business with Customs
      Back Close

      Doing business with Customs

      • Storing business records
      • Reviews and appeals
      • View all
    • Penalties, fines and fees
      Back Close

      Penalties, fines and fees

      • Compliance under the Act
      • Interest and penalties for unpaid duty
      • Administrative penalties
      • Compensatory interest
      • Late payment penalties
      • Infringement notices
      • View all
    • Tariffs
      Back Close

      Tariffs

      • Working Tariff Document
      • Tariff concessions
      • Tariff concession notices
      • Consolidated list of approvals
      • Preferential tariffs
      • Tariff ruling request
      • Tariff classifications and rates
      • Free Trade Agreements
      • Non-tariff barriers
      • View all
    • Trade Single Window
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      Trade Single Window

      • Getting started
      • Latest news
      • Current TSW status
      • Urgent Clearance
      • Summary of TSW Messages
      • Location of goods codes
      • Resource material
      • View all
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Travelling to New Zealand

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What you're allowed to bring in and take out, and what you need to do when you arrive.

Leaving New Zealand

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Things to think about in advance as you prepare to leave New Zealand.

Online shopping

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Estimate what duties you may have to pay, how and where to get your parcel and what to watch out for.

Importing

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We're your first point of contact if you're importing goods to sell or use.

Paying Customs

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How to pay Customs duty, GST and other import and export charges

Exporting

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Learn about international agreements, guidance and documentation you'll need as an exporter, and Brexit.

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Detector dogs

Our detector dogs play a vital role in Customs work.
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Tobacco limits

Find out more about tobacco limits and what it means for you.

Excise

Excise is a tax on alcohol, fuel and tobacco products.

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