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Generalzolldirektion · German Customs (Zoll) · Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (BMG) · European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
What can you bring into Germany?
Tobacco and vaping products
Cigarettes 40 piece · Cigars 10 piece · Loose/pipe tobacco 250 gram
24 rules
Restricted
- Cigarettes Restricted
- Cigarillos (cigars weighing not more than 3 g each) Restricted
- Cigars Restricted
- Cigars and other tobacco (by weight) Allowed
- Cuban-origin cigars and other tobacco products Allowed
- Cut/loose tobacco Allowed
- Disposable e-cigarette Allowed
- E-cigarette device Allowed
- E-cigarette nicotine liquid Allowed
- Heated tobacco Allowed
- Heated tobacco devices Allowed
- Lighters and matches Allowed
- Loose/other tobacco Allowed
- Loose/pipe tobacco Allowed
- Manufactured tobacco Allowed
- Nicotine pouches Allowed
- Other tobacco products (loose-leaf, molasses, heat-not-burn) Allowed
- Smoking tobacco Restricted
- Tobacco sticks Allowed
- Unstamped tobacco or vaping product unit Allowed
- Vaping devices, accessories and liquid nicotine Allowed
General allowances
Gifts and personal goods 175 EUR · Personal exemption, absence over 24 hours 430 EUR · Personal exemption, absence over 48 hours 430 EUR
27 rules
Restricted
- Accompanying goods, non-commercial (flat-rate band) Declare
- Audio and video recorder/player Allowed
- Driver and crew border-shop bundle Restricted
- GPS device Allowed
- Game console Allowed
- Gifts and personal goods Restricted
- Gifts sent by post Allowed
- Goods eligible for the $1,000 flat rate of duty Restricted
- Laptop or personal computer Allowed
- Medical device Allowed
- Mobile phone or wireless device Allowed
- Motor vehicle fuel Allowed
- Musical instrument Allowed
- Night vision device Allowed
- Other personal item Allowed
- Personal exemption, absence over 24 hours Allowed
- Personal exemption, absence over 48 hours Allowed
- Personal exemption, absence over 7 days Allowed
- Personal goods (Annex-9 B) Allowed
- Photo camera Allowed
- Photo or video camera Allowed
- Radio and radio-cassette player Allowed
- Sports equipment Allowed
- Tablet and smartwatch Allowed
- Television Allowed
- Used articles and personal belongings Allowed
- Video camera Allowed
Cash and valuables
Cash and bearer negotiable instruments (all currencies) 10000 currency amount · Cross-border movement of monetary instruments (cash and bearer negotiable instruments) 10000 currency amount · Currency and monetary instruments (CAN$10,000 reporting) 10000 currency amount
12 rules
Restricted
- Accompanied cash Restricted
- Cash and bearer negotiable instruments (all currencies) Declare
- Cash and foreign-exchange payment instruments Declare
- Cross-border movement of monetary instruments (cash and bearer negotiable instruments) Declare
- Currency and monetary instruments (CAN$10,000 reporting) Declare
- Currency and monetary instruments over $10,000 Declare
- Foreign currency cash Declare
- Jewelry and precious metals Allowed
- Negotiable instruments and securities Declare
- Renminbi cash Declare
- Turkish lira cash Declare
Pets and live animals
Cats and dogs 5 piece · Dogs (CDC 2024 import rule) 5 piece
5 rules
Prohibited
Animal and plant products
Fish and other fishery products 20 kilogram · Other products of animal origin (honey, live bivalve molluscs, live snails) 2 kilogram · Powdered infant milk, infant food and special foods required for medical reasons 2 kilogram
18 rules
Prohibited
- Agricultural/forestry/fishery/livestock products (general sub-cap) Allowed
- Animal, plant, fruit, vegetable, seafood and food products Restricted
- Cut flowers and wreaths Restricted
- Eggs Allowed
- Fish and other fishery products Allowed
- Food, plant and animal products under agency control Restricted
- Fruits and vegetables Restricted
- Meat and fish Restricted
- Meat, meat products and dairy products Restricted
- Other animal-origin products (Annex-2 list) Allowed
- Other plant products Restricted
- Other products of animal origin (honey, live bivalve molluscs, live snails) Allowed
- Pet food Restricted
- Plants and plant products Restricted
- Powdered infant milk, infant food and special foods required for medical reasons Allowed
- Seeds, tubers, seedlings and cuttings Restricted
- Soil Prohibited
- Strong-smelling fruit (e.g. durian) Allowed
Cosmetics and personal care
Perfume and toilet water 430 EUR · Liquids, aerosols and gels (LAGs) 430 EUR · Cargo liquids in checked baggage (Zamzam water, edible oil, liquid food) 430 EUR
6 rules
Allowed
- Cargo liquids in checked baggage (Zamzam water, edible oil, liquid food) Allowed
- Duty-free liquids in a sealed security bag Allowed
- Liquids, aerosols and gels (LAGs) Allowed
- Medicine and baby food/milk liquids exempted from the LAG limit Allowed
- Perfume and toilet water Allowed
- Skincare and make-up products Allowed
Electronics and batteries
Power bank 430 EUR · Spare (loose) lithium batteries 430 EUR · Portable electronic devices with installed battery 430 EUR
9 rules
Allowed
- Battery-powered mobility aids and wheelchairs Allowed
- Medical oxygen cylinders and concentrators Allowed
- Mobile phone Allowed
- Personal mobility devices (hoverboard, e-scooter, self-balancing wheel, e-bike) Allowed
- Portable electronic devices with installed battery Allowed
- Power bank Allowed
- Radios, transmitters and pagers Allowed
- Smart luggage with built-in battery Allowed
- Spare (loose) lithium batteries Allowed
Medicines and medical devices
Personal-use cosmetics (each item) 430 EUR · Personal medical device 430 EUR · Dietary supplements and sports nutrition 430 EUR
13 rules
Restricted
- Controlled substances for personal medical use (schedules II-V) Restricted
- Controlled/prescription medicine Restricted
- Dietary supplements and sports nutrition Allowed
- External-use medicine (personal use) Restricted
- Medicine containing stimulant raw materials Allowed
- Medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances Restricted
- Narcotic and psychotropic medicines Restricted
- Narcotic or psychotropic medicines Restricted
- Non-narcotic, non-psychotropic medicines Allowed
- Personal medical device Allowed
- Personal-use cosmetics (each item) Allowed
- Personal-use medicine Allowed
- Personal-use medicines (non-controlled) Restricted
Weapons, explosives and dangerous goods
Printed matter, film and recorded media under content restrictions 430 EUR · Counterfeit and pirated goods 430 EUR · Knives 430 EUR
41 rules
Prohibited
- Antique and replica weapons Restricted
- Banned knives and edged weapons Prohibited
- Buddha images, artifacts/objects, antiques Declare
- CITES-protected species and products Restricted
- Cigarettes, tobacco and alcoholic beverages (commercial import, Excise Department permit) Restricted
- Consumer fireworks Restricted
- Controlled drugs (Misuse of Drugs Regulations, 4th Schedule) Restricted
- Counterfeit and pirated goods Restricted
- Dry ice (carbon dioxide, solid) Allowed
- Endangered species products (e.g. rhinoceros horn) Restricted
- Fake notes or coins Prohibited
- Firearms, ammunition and controlled knives Restricted
- Firearms, blades, explosives, toxic/radioactive materials and interception devices Restricted
- Food, medicine, cosmetics and food supplement Restricted
- Goods banned by law Prohibited
- Guns, bullets, explosives and equivalents Declare
- Knives Allowed
- Knives and bladed weapons Restricted
- Living animals and carcass Restricted
- Medicines Allowed
- Narcotics and psychotropic substances Restricted
- Narcotics, psychotropic substances, cannabis and abuse-risk medicines Restricted
- Obscene materials and counterfeit currency/securities Prohibited
- Pets (companion animals) Restricted
- Plants and their parts Restricted
- Pornographic materials Restricted
- Powders and other granular substances Prohibited
- Printed matter, film and recorded media under content restrictions Allowed
- Prohibited telecommunication equipment Prohibited
- Satellite phone Allowed
- Scissors Restricted
- Sharp or bladed work tools Allowed
- Switchblade, gravity, ballistic and Balisong (butterfly) knives Prohibited
- Unmanned aircraft (drones) Restricted
- Unmanned aircraft / drone Restricted
- Vehicle parts Allowed
- Weapons and munitions Restricted
Alcoholic beverages
Spirits and wine 1 liter · Beer 16 liter · Wine 4 liter
17 rules
Allowed
- Alcohol and alcoholic beverages above 22% vol (or undenatured ethyl alcohol 80% vol and over) Allowed
- Alcohol and alcoholic beverages up to and including 22% vol Allowed
- Alcoholic beverages (all types) Allowed
- Alcoholic beverages (combined volume and value cap) Allowed
- Alcoholic beverages (standard 760 ml bottle) Allowed
- Alcoholic beverages above 12% ABV Allowed
- Alcoholic beverages above 22% ABV Allowed
- Alcoholic beverages up to 22% ABV Allowed
- Beer Allowed
- Beer or ale Allowed
- Cuban-origin alcoholic beverages Allowed
- Other alcoholic beverages (spirits, beer, liqueurs) Allowed
- Spirits (alcoholic beverages other than wine or beer) Allowed
- Spirits and wine Allowed
- Still wine Allowed
- Wine Allowed
- Wine and spirits combined allowance (visitors) Allowed
What happens if you do not declare
- Step 1: Administrative fine, Reported to authority Statute: Barmittel - Folgen bei Verstoß
- Step 1: Confiscation, Criminal prosecution Statute: WaffG Sec. 52 (paraphrased structure, low confidence)
- Step 1: Confiscation, Destruction Statute: Article 23
- Step 1: Flat rate tax Statute: Zoll online, 'Überschreiten der Reisefreimengen', section 'Vereinfachte Abgabenberechnung'
- Step 1: Administrative fine Statute: Zoll online, 'Barmittel - Anmelde- bzw. Anzeigepflicht bei der Einreise aus einem Nicht-EU-Mitgliedstaat', section 'Folgen bei Verletzung der Anmelde- bzw. Anzeigepflicht'
- Step 1: Criminal prosecution Statute: Abgabenordnung, § 372 Absatz 1 (Bannbruch); Absatz 2 applies the penalties of § 370 Absatz 1, 2
- Step 2: Criminal prosecution Statute: ZollVG / Geldwaeschegesetz interplay (paraphrased, low confidence)
- Step 2: Standard duty Statute: Zoll online, 'Überschreiten der Reisefreimengen', opening paragraph
- Step 3: Confiscation Statute: Abgabenordnung, § 375 Absatz 2 Satz 1 (Nebenfolgen)
- Step 4: Administrative fine Statute: Abgabenordnung, § 378 Absatz 2 (leichtfertige Steuerverkürzung)
- Step 5: Criminal prosecution Statute: Abgabenordnung, § 370 Absatz 1 (Steuerhinterziehung); Absatz 5 extends it to goods subject to an import, export or transit ban
- Step 6: Criminal prosecution Statute: Abgabenordnung, § 370 Absatz 3 Satz 1
- Step 7: Criminal prosecution Statute: Abgabenordnung, § 373 Absatz 1 Satz 1 (gewerbsmäßiger, gewaltsamer und bandenmäßiger Schmuggel)
Official authorities
65 official sources
- Generalzolldirektion Zoll online - Eingeschraenkte Reisefreimengen
- German Customs (Zoll) Travellers’ allowances
- Generalzolldirektion Zoll online - Reisefreimengen
- Generalzolldirektion Internationale Barmittelkontrolloperation "BELENOS II"
- Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (BMG) Einfuhr von Arzneimitteln bei der Einreise nach Deutschland
- European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety Bringing a pet into the EU from a non-EU country
- Generalzolldirektion / Zoll (German Customs), Bundesministerium der Finanzen Ergänzende Informationen und Hinweise zum Tabaksteuermodernisierungsgesetz und zur Siebten Verordnung zur Änderung von Verbrauchsteuerverordnungen, Abschnitt 3 (Substitute für Tabakwaren), Buchstabe b
- German Customs (Zoll) Anmelde- bzw. Anzeigepflicht bei Ein- oder Ausreise aus bzw. in Nicht-EU-Mitgliedstaat
- Generalzolldirektion / German Customs Administration (zoll.de) Gefährliche Hunde
- Zoll (German Customs) Kugeln im BH
- German Customs (Zoll) Einfuhr von tierischen Erzeugnissen im Reiseverkehr
- German Customs (Zoll) Zoll am Flughafen Hamburg verhindert Medikamentenschmuggel
- Generalzolldirektion / German Customs Administration (zoll.de) Verbringen und Mitnahme von Waffen und Munition nach dem Waffengesetz
- Generalzolldirektion / Bundeszollverwaltung (Zoll online) Verbotene Waffen und Munition
- Generalzolldirektion / Bundeszollverwaltung (Zoll online) Feuerwerkskörper
- Bundesministerium der Justiz / gesetze-im-internet.de Erste Verordnung zum Sprengstoffgesetz (1. SprengV)
- European Commission (EUR-Lex, Official Journal L 152/45) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947 on the rules and procedures for the operation of unmanned aircraft, Article 14(5)
- Generalzolldirektion (Zoll) Häufige Fragen zu gefälschten oder nachgeahmten Waren im Reiseverkehr
- German Customs (Zoll) Häufige Fragen zu gefälschten oder nachgeahmten Waren im Reiseverkehr
- German Customs (Zoll) Zoll online - Marken- und Produktpiraterie - Häufige Fragen zu gefälschten oder nachgeahmten Waren im Reiseverkehr
- Generalzolldirektion / German Customs Administration (zoll.de) Schutz von Kulturgut aus Drittstaaten
- Generalzolldirektion / Bundeszollverwaltung (Zoll online) Schutz des nationalen Kulturgutes
- Generalzolldirektion Zoll online - Arznei- und Betaeubungsmittel
- Council of the European Union (EUR-Lex, Schengen acquis) Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985, Article 75
- Generalzolldirektion (Zoll) Barmittel
- Bundesministerium der Justiz / gesetze-im-internet.de Zollverwaltungsgesetz (ZollVG)
- Generalzolldirektion Zoll online - Barmittelverkehr (Fachthemen)
- European Union Mitnahme von tierischen Erzeugnissen, Lebensmitteln oder Pflanzen in der EU
- European Commission Trade in plants & plant products from non-EU countries - Food Safety
- German Customs (Zoll) Waffen und Munition
- German Customs (Zoll) Arzneimittel und Betäubungsmittel
- European Union (EUR-Lex) Consolidated text: Delegierte Verordnung (EU) 2019/2122 der Kommission vom 10. Oktober 2019 zur Ergänzung der Verordnung (EU) 2017/625 des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates hinsichtlich bestimmter Kategorien von Tieren und Waren, die von amtlichen Kontrollen an Grenzkontrollstellen ausgenommen sind, hinsichtlich besonderer Kontrollen des persönlichen Gepäcks von Fahrgästen bzw. Passagieren und von für natürliche Personen bestimmten Kleinsendungen von Waren, die nicht in Verkehr gebracht werden sollen, sowie zur Änderung der Verordnung (EU) Nr. 142/2011 der Kommission (Text von Bedeutung für den EWR)
- Bundesamt für Naturschutz Cites - Ein- und Ausfuhrregelungen nach EU-Recht
- Bundesamt für Naturschutz Zollabfertigung
- German Customs (Zoll online) Kulturgut UNESCO Vertragsstaaten
- Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA) Fragen und Antworten zu Unbemannten Luftfahrtsystemen/Drohnen
- Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat Deutsche Einfuhrvorschriften für Lebensmittel
- German Customs (Zoll) Formen der Zollanmeldung
- German Customs (Zoll) Jugendgefährdende Inhalte und Medien
- Generalzolldirektion (Zoll online) Waffen und Munition
- German Customs Medicinal products and narcotics
- European Commission EUR-Lex - 02019R2122-20260422 - DE - EUR-Lex
- Generalzolldirektion and Bundesamt für Naturschutz Geschützte Nashörner des Landes China - Artenschutz im Urlaub
- Bundesnetzagentur Verbraucherinformation zu Kinderuhren mit Abhörfunktion
- Bundespolizei Was darf ich mitnehmen?
- Bundespolizei Flüssigkeiten an Bord
- Bundespolizei Verbotene Gegenstände - Bundespolizei
- Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat (BMLEH) Einreiseorte
- German Federal Police (Bundespolizei) Für Ihre Sicherheit am Flughafen
- German Customs (Zoll) Zoll online - Überschreiten der Reisefreimengen
- European Union Verordnung (EU) Nr. 952/2013 des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates vom 9. Oktober 2013 zur Festlegung des Zollkodex der Union (Neufassung)
- Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen Einfuhr Pflanzen - pflanzengesundheit.julius-kuehn.de
- Bundesportal (Bayern) Eingang, Durch-, Ausfuhren und innergemeinschaftliche Verbringungen nach tierseuchen- und lebensmittelrechtlichen Vorschriften; Beantragung einer Genehmigung
- Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat (BMLEH) Reisen mit Heimtieren: Hunde, Katzen und Frettchen
- Generalzolldirektion / German Customs Administration (zoll.de) Einfuhr verbrauchsteuerpflichtiger Waren in das Steuergebiet
- Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat (BMLEH) Pflanzengesundheit - Bringen Sie bitte keine Pflanzen von außerhalb der EU mit
- European Union (EUR-Lex) Durchführungsverordnung (EU) 2019/2072
- German Customs (Zollverwaltung) Merkblatt über Zollbestimmungen für Schiffsführende von Wassersportfahrzeugen
- Generalzolldirektion / German Customs Administration (zoll.de) Anmelde- bzw. Anzeigepflicht bei der Einreise aus einem Nicht-EU-Mitgliedstaat
- German Customs (Zoll), Hauptzollamt Karlsruhe Goldschmuck am Flughafen Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden entdeckt
- Publications Office of the European Union (EUR-Lex) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692
- Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat (BMI) Waffenrechtliche Regelungen in Deutschland - Waffengesetzänderungen 2024: Fragen & Antworten
- German Customs (Zoll online) Voraussetzungen und Regelungen - Übersiedlungsgut
- Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) Declare cash and certain other funds when crossing the border
- European Union Consolidated text: Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (Animal Health Law) (Text with EEA relevance)