What you're allowed to bring in and take out, and what you need to do when you arrive.
Travelling to New Zealand
- Travel to and from New Zealand
- Travelling to New Zealand
- Non-scheduled flights and private flights
- Duty free shopping
- Human remains/ashes and placenta
- Medicines
- Electronic device examinations
- Leaving New Zealand
- Travel to and from New Zealand by small craft
- Border processing levies
- Border Cash Report
- Import
- Start importing
- Import Prohibited and restricted imports
- Import animals
- Tobacco
- Commercial vessels
- Cruise ship operators
- Valuation for import
- Lodge your import entry
- Preferential tariff duty rates
- Customs rulings
- Customs rates of exchange
- Import payments
- MyCustoms Account
- Deferred accounts for importers
- Deferred accounts for brokers
- Refunds and drawbacks
- Split shipments
- Import forms and documents
- Export
- Certificate of New Zealand Origin
- Start exporting
- Export Prohibitions and restrictions
- Export animals
- Lodge your export entry
- Export payments and refunds
- Clear your exports
- Mutual Recognition Arrangements
- Secure Exports Scheme
- Export forms and documents
- Approved Exporters Scheme (self-declaration of origin)
- Paying Customs - Business
- Broker with a deferred account
- Broker Goods Clearance Fees Accounts
- Broker paying on behalf of the customer
- Broker payment of deposit for temporary import/Sight entry
- Customs duties
- Duty payers, including excise clients
- Goods Clearance Fees Account
- Importers with deferred accounts
- Excise
- Excise Customs-Controlled Area Licences
- Applying for an excise Customs-controlled area licence
- Lodge your excise entry
- Claim excise duty remission or refund
- 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
- Excise forms and documents
- Excise Duty Estimator
- Duty-free alcohol permits
- Record-keeping obligations for alcohol licenced manufacturing areas and off-site storage
Please be aware and alerted to emails currently in circulation from info@tswgovt.nz - these appear to be from Customs, but they are not. These are likely to be a phishing scam.
Protecting and promoting New Zealand across borders
Travelling to and from New Zealand
Travelling to New Zealand
What you need to know about coming here.
Prohibited and restricted items
What you can't bring into New Zealand.
New Zealand Traveller Declaration 
Everyone entering New Zealand must complete a declaration.
On your arrival
What happens once you're in New Zealand.
Medicines
What you need to bring your medicines with you.
Leaving New Zealand
How to make your departure smooth and trouble-free.
eGate
An automated way to get through passport control.
Agricultural items
Some items are a biosecurity risk to New Zealand.
Duty-free shopping
Find out what the limits are.
Importing for personal use
Find your parcel
We don't store or track goods, and we can't trace your parcel.
Customs Number
You need a Customs Number to import/export items worth more than NZ$1000.
What's my duty?
Find out how much duty and/or GST you may need to pay if you're buying goods from overseas.
Prohibited and restricted items
What you can't bring into New Zealand.
Online shopping
Your obligations when shopping online.
Duty and allowances
More information on what you might need to pay when importing items.
Paying Customs
If you've received an invoice from us, here's how to pay.
Receive items from overseas
Advice on having your items shipped to New Zealand.
Import allowances and charges
Find some of the more common duties and charges.
Importing and exporting as a business
Working Tariff Document
View the full Working Tariff Document.
Goods Clearance Fees
A table of the current goods clearance fees.
Customs rates of exchange
Current and historical rates of exchange used to calculate your Customs duty.
Prohibitions and restrictions
What you can't bring into New Zealand.
Import
Find the documentation, clearances, and requirements you need.
Consolidated list of approvals
General approvals relating to Part II of the Tariff of New Zealand, also known as tariff concessions.
Client codes
A unique number that identifies commercial importers and exporters.
Tobacco
An overview of legal requirements for bringing tobacco products into New Zealand.
Supplier codes
You need a supplier code for imports valued at NZ$1000 or more.
