• I am bringing goods into the Netherlands
  • From an EU country
  • From a non-EU country
    • No tax has to be paid
    • Tax must be paid
    • Special products and pets
• Export of goods
• EU countries / non-EU countries
• Customs green and red channel
• Obligation to cooperate with customs inspection
• Transfer passengers

I am entering the Netherlands from a non-EU country

If you are entering the Netherlands from a non-EU country (a country which is not a member of the European Union) you may bring in the following goods without having to pay tax:

• your usual travel baggage
• a restricted quantity of alcoholic beverage and cigarettes (for example 1 litre of spirits and 200 cigarettes)
• other goods with a maximum value of € 430
• means of transport that you are travelling with (with one exception)

Please note!

If you enter the EU over land or by private pleasure boat by sea or pleasure aviation, from a non-EU country (a country that is not a member of the European Union)? Then you may bring in goods bought outside the EU up to a value of € 300 without having to pay taxes upon import.

Further information can be found in the section:
Good on which no tax has to be paid (I receive a tax exemption).

If you bring in additional goods you may have to pay tax. Further information can be found in the section:
I have to pay tax because I bring in additional goods (I receive no tax exemption).

There are goods which you:

• may not bring into the Netherlands
• may bring into the Netherlands in a limited quantity
• may bring into the Netherlands with a special permission only

Further information can be found in the section: Special products and pets.
Some examples include:

• money and securities (liquid assets more than € 10,000)
• cars, motorbikes and trailers
• pets
• counterfeit products
• endangered animal and plant species
• animal product and foodstuffs
• plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables (phytosanitary products)
• weapons and ammunition, toy weapons and fake weapons
• medicines
• drugs
• culture goods (art and antiques)
• pleasure boats

Please note!

If you bring goods into the Netherlands which you bought free of tax at the airport or on board the ferry the same rules will apply as to goods which you bought in a non-EU country.

Travellers in private pleasure boats by sea and pleasure aviation can only bring in other goods for a maximum of € 300.

Private

• Travel baggage
• Internetpurchases
• Removal goods
• Excise duties and consumption taxes

Business

• Entry
• Import
• Storage
• Transport of goods
• Export
• Export (ECS Exit)
• Safety, health, economy and environment (VGEM)
• Excise duties and consumption taxes