- Import
- Start importing
- Prohibited and restricted imports
- Import animals
- Tobacco
- 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
- Excise
- What is excise?
- Apply for a 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
- Businesses
- Advice for exporters, importers and businesses
- Movement of goods
- Customs duties
- Excise clients
- Goods clearance fees deferral
- Lodging of Import Declarations
- Movement of critical supplies
- NZ Maritime Border Controls
- Payments
- Permits and Carnets
- Point of Care test kits
- Public counters
- Tariff Concessions
- Trade enquiries
COVID-19 update: New Zealand is currently at Alert Level 1. Temporary travel restrictions are in place at the border. There are no restrictions on the movement of freight. Visit the COVID-19 section of this website, or the official COVID-19 website, for more information.
Human remains
Bringing human remains into New Zealand.
If you're bringing human remains into the country, please email service.delivery@customs.govt.nz scanned copies of your documentation and note "Urgent - Human remains" in the subject line.
If you require urgent after hours assistance or clearance, email your request to: ITOCTradeTargeting@customs.govt.nz.
You'll find full details on the:
- Importation of Human remains on Prohibitions and restrictions
- Exportation of Human remains on Export/Prohibitions and restrictions.
For further information on Deaths, funerals and tangihanga during COVID-19 please visit:
- Ministry of Health: COVID-19 Deaths, funerals and tangihanga
- Funeral Directors Association of NZ: COVID-19 information