Mozambique customs
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Get import & export customs regulations, restricted items and food restrictions before travelling to Mozambique. 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 Mozambique
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 MOP$5000.
Prohibited items into Mozambique
- Stimulants, hypnotics and tranquilizers.
- Counterfeit goods and currency.
Restricted items into Mozambique
- 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.
Mozambique travel details
Export Regulations
Free to export items from Mozambique
No rules presentProhibited items from Mozambique
- Food products in poor condition.
- Counterfeit or pirated goods.
Restricted items from Mozambique
- Ivory and ivory products require special provisions for export.
- Collections and works of art that constitute national artistic or cultural heritage require permission for export.
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