Macao customs
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Get import & export customs regulations, restricted items and food restrictions before travelling to Macao. Items allowed to import is Medicine for personal use must be accompanied by a health certificate if it contains anaesthetic or psychotropic properties. Prohibited items is Stimulants, hypnotics and tranquilizers. Some of restricted items are Live animals, including pets, may be subject to health quarantine, and require a permit from the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau.
Import Regulations
Free to import items into Macao
Tobacco
- 19 cigarettes;
- 1 cigar;
- 25 grams of tobacco; or
- A combination of the above goods weighing not more than 25 grams.
Other items
- Medicine for personal use must be accompanied by a health certificate if it contains anaesthetic or psychotropic properties.
- Goods up to a value of MOP5000.
Prohibited items into Macao
- Stimulants, hypnotics and tranquilizers.
- Counterfeit goods and currency.
Restricted items into Macao
- Live animals, including pets, may be subject to health quarantine, and require a permit from the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau.
- Endangered animals, plants, and their derivative products protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) may require protected species permits.
- Live plants are subject to the health and quarantine system.
- Meat and meat products, dairy, and eggs require an import licence from the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau, and will be subject to the health and quarantine system.
- Other food, such as vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, and sugar cane must be declared, and may be subject to quarantine to prove that it is suitable for human consumption.
- Chemicals must be pre-approved by the Health Bureau.
- Narcotic and psychotropic substances require a permit from the Health Bureau.
- Radio receivers require an import permit from the Post Office.
- Firearms and related weapons require permission issued by the Security Police Station.
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Export Regulations
Free to export items from Macao
No rules presentProhibited items from Macao
- See prohibited import list.
Restricted items from Macao
- CFCs.
- Protected species and their derivative products protected under CITES require a permit for export.
- Medication containing narcotic and psychotropic substances must be accompanied by a prescription.
- Goods up to a value of MOP5000.
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