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🇹🇼 Taiwan Customs Guide

What customs allows you to bring into Taiwan — duty-free caps, banned and restricted goods, and medication rules, from official sources.

Fully verified · Authority: Customs Administration, MOF (Taipei Customs FAQ) · Last verified

Every section below carries verbatim quotes from official customs sources captured on the verification date.

Two different questions. Airport security screening (TSA/CATSA — can it go through the checkpoint?) is separate from customs (may it enter the country at all?). This page covers customs after arrival in Taiwan; for checkpoint rules, see the item guides.

Duty-free allowances

NTD 35,000 total exemption for personal/household articles (excl. controlled goods, cigarettes, alcohol). Used articles valued ≤ NTD 10,000 per piece exempt separately. Age 20+: 1.5 L alcohol (any bottle count) + 200 cigarettes / 25 cigars / 1 lb tobacco / 200 MHW-approved designated tobacco units. Hard ceilings before import permit: >5 L alcohol, >1,000 cigarettes, >125 cigars, >5 lb tobacco.

“In general, each arriving passenger is entitled to a totaled NTD35,000 exemption for personal or household articles, excluding controlled articles, cigarettes and alcohols.”

Taipei Customs FAQ 1367

“(1) Each person, aged 20 and over, may bring in 1.5 liters of alcoholic beverages (regardless of the quantity of bottles), plus 200 cigarettes or 25 cigars or 1 pound of tobacco or 200 designated tobacco products approved through the health risk assessment by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.”

ibid.

Prohibited & restricted goods

Controlled/restricted classes referenced but schedule not extracted.

“Prohibited articles include: the narcotic drugs referred to in the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act, as well as their derivative products, poppy seeds, coca seeds, and Cannabis seeds; firearms (including shotguns, air guns, fishing guns, etc.), ammunition, and knives referred to in the Act Governing the Control of Guns, Ammunition and Knives (excluding those permitted by competent authorities); fake or altered currencies and securities, as well as moulds for printing counterfeit currencies; articles infringing upon the rights of patents, trademarks and copyrights. — Kaohsiung Customs (official), 'Prohibited Articles'”

list lead-ins preserved verbatim

Medication & prescription drugs

PENDING — TFDA traveller quantities (narcotics/psychotropics permits) not captured verbatim.

“A passengers may carry up to 12 bottles (boxes, cans, bars, sticks) of one kind of non-prescription medicine and a total amount of 36 bottles (boxes, cans, bars, sticks) is allowed for one passenger.”

Kaohsiung Customs (official), 'Medicines, Cosmetics and Medical Devices' (as printed)

“A passenger may carry prescription medicine with the amount of up to 2 months use if no prescription (or a supporting document) is presented. The amount of prescription medicine to be carried by a passenger with prescription (or a supporting document) shall not exceed the reasonable amount stated on the prescription (or supporting document) and shall not exceed the amount for 6 month use.”

Kaohsiung Customs (official)

Taiwan customs FAQs

What is the duty-free allowance for Taiwan?

NTD 35,000 total exemption for personal/household articles (excl.

What items are prohibited or restricted at Taiwan customs?

Controlled/restricted classes referenced but schedule not extracted.

Can I bring medication into Taiwan?

PENDING — TFDA traveller quantities (narcotics/psychotropics permits) not captured verbatim.

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