Malawi customs
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Get import & export customs regulations, restricted items and food restrictions before travelling to Malawi. Items allowed to import is 250mL eau de toilette and 50mL perfume. Prohibited items is Any attempt to import a restricted good without a relevant permit is considered to be a prohibited import. Some of restricted items are All animals must be certified as free from disease before importation.
Import Regulations
Free to import items into Malawi
Tobacco
- 200 cigarettes; or
- 250g tobacco in any other form.
Other items
- 250mL eau de toilette and 50mL perfume.
- Personal goods up to the value of MK300,000 per traveller.
Prohibited items into Malawi
- Any attempt to import a restricted good without a relevant permit is considered to be a prohibited import.
Restricted items into Malawi
- All animals must be certified as free from disease before importation.
- Wild animals and their derivative products.
- Live fish, their eggs, and spawn.
- Any bird eggs, whether in shell or dried form.
- Bees and their derivative products, including honey and beeswax.
- Meat requires written permission from the Minister of Industry and Trade.
- Clothing and uniforms designed for military or police use.
- Pharmaceuticals.
- Gold.
- Sugar.
- Knives with a spring blade, such as flick knives.
- Radioactive substances.
- Game traps.
- Mist nets for the capture of wild birds.
- Unpreserved beans.
- Compound products containing flour and meal residues, including chemical additions to animal foodstuffs, antibiotic growth stimulants, and bird seed.
- Gram and dhall.
- Ground nuts.
- Maize, including maize grits, maize cones, and hominy chop.
- Oil seeds, oil meal, oil cake, offal, and residue from oil seeds.
- Potatoes.
- Rice.
- Rupoko and rupoko meal.
- Bananas.
- Exercise books.
- Fertilisers.
- Dieldrin.
- Aldrin.
- Kitchen and table salt.
- Ammunitions and guns.
Malawi travel details
Export Regulations
Free to export items from Malawi
No rules presentProhibited items from Malawi
No rules presentRestricted items from Malawi
- Unmanufactured game trophies.
- Currencies.
- Gold and valuables.
- Dangerous drugs.
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