- Import
- Start importing
- Prohibited and restricted imports
- Import animals
- Commercial ships and cruise liners
- Lodge your import entry
- Preferential tariff duty rates
- 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
- Customs-Controlled Areas
- Excise forms and documents
An email scam is currently circulating New Zealand involving Customs. Read more about it and be on the alert.
- Home
- Personal
- Travel to and from NZ
- Travelling to NZ
- Medicines
Medicines
If you are carrying prescription medicines or controlled drugs, you must:
- have a prescription or letter from your doctor
- carry the drugs in their original containers
- only carry up to three months’ supply of prescription medicines, or
- only carry one month’s supply of controlled drugs.
Learn more about importing medicines (Ministry of Health).