🇹🇼 Taiwan Customs Guide

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

“(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.”

“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'”

“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.”

“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.”

“Travelers carrying controlled drugs for personal use should carry a diagnosis certificate or a doctor's prescription from a medical institution to facilitate customs clearance.”

“Bringing controlled drugs back into Taiwan: present a doctor's prescription or medical-institution certificate; the medications are limited to the treatment of the traveller's specific illness; the quantity must not exceed the prescription/certificate and is limited to a six-month supply; controlled drugs must be carried by the person at all times and cannot be sent by mail or courier.”