Guyana customs
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Free import
• Adult travelers may bring in the following without paying duty, if the goods are declared and are for their own personal use: 200 cigarettes, 50 cigars or 100 cigarillos, or 250 g of manufactured tobacco.
• Spirits: up to 758 ml (one-sixth of a gallon) in total.
• Wine: up to 758 ml.
• Perfume: up to 250 ml, and toilet water (eau de toilette): up to 250 ml.
• If you bring more than any of these amounts, duty is charged on the whole quantity of that item, not only on the excess.
• Baggage covers the personal and household effects of the traveler and family and small gifts declared as such. Goods for sale or exchange are not baggage and must be cleared as cargo.
• Every arriving passenger must answer the questions of the customs officer and make a written customs declaration for their baggage.
Currency
• Currency worth more than USD 10,000, or the equivalent in another currency, must be declared on arrival on the Declaration of International Transportation of Currency form. The forms are available at the international airports (Cheddi Jagan at Timehri and Eugene F. Correia at Ogle), at the Lethem border crossing and at the ferry crossing to Suriname. Not declaring, or making a false declaration, is an offence: penalties may include a fine of GYD 250,000, six months in prison and forfeiture of the undeclared money.
Prohibited
• Illegal drugs, prepared opium and pipes or other utensils for smoking opium
• Counterfeit coins and money, fictitious stamps and any equipment for making them
• Indecent or obscene prints, paintings, photographs, books, cards and other obscene articles
• Goods with false trade marks or descriptions (goods liable to forfeiture under the Merchandise Marks Act)
• Food declared unfit for human consumption
• Infected cattle, sheep or other animals, their carcasses, and hides, skins, horns, hoofs or other animal parts banned to prevent the spread of disease
Restricted
• Firearms and ammunition: label them with your name, your address in Guyana and the name and arrival date of your flight or ship, and hand them to the customs officer. Customs keeps them, against a receipt, until the Commissioner of Police (Guyana Police Force) issues a licence or permit and the customs duty is paid, or until permission to export them is granted.
• Plants, plant products and other regulated articles need an import permit from the National Plant Protection Organisation (NPPO, part of NAREI), unless the NPPO has exempted them, and an original phytosanitary certificate from the exporting country issued no more than 14 days before arrival. Customs does not release them until an NPPO officer authorizes it.
• Pets and other live animals: the import of animals is regulated by the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA). Contact the GLDA (tel. +592 220 6557) well before you travel for the permit and veterinary requirements.
• Wild animals and plants and products made from them: import needs a permit from the Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission. Guyana applies CITES.
• Adult travelers may bring in the following without paying duty, if the goods are declared and are for their own personal use: 200 cigarettes, 50 cigars or 100 cigarillos, or 250 g of manufactured tobacco.
• Spirits: up to 758 ml (one-sixth of a gallon) in total.
• Wine: up to 758 ml.
• Perfume: up to 250 ml, and toilet water (eau de toilette): up to 250 ml.
• If you bring more than any of these amounts, duty is charged on the whole quantity of that item, not only on the excess.
• Baggage covers the personal and household effects of the traveler and family and small gifts declared as such. Goods for sale or exchange are not baggage and must be cleared as cargo.
• Every arriving passenger must answer the questions of the customs officer and make a written customs declaration for their baggage.
Currency
• Currency worth more than USD 10,000, or the equivalent in another currency, must be declared on arrival on the Declaration of International Transportation of Currency form. The forms are available at the international airports (Cheddi Jagan at Timehri and Eugene F. Correia at Ogle), at the Lethem border crossing and at the ferry crossing to Suriname. Not declaring, or making a false declaration, is an offence: penalties may include a fine of GYD 250,000, six months in prison and forfeiture of the undeclared money.
Prohibited
• Illegal drugs, prepared opium and pipes or other utensils for smoking opium
• Counterfeit coins and money, fictitious stamps and any equipment for making them
• Indecent or obscene prints, paintings, photographs, books, cards and other obscene articles
• Goods with false trade marks or descriptions (goods liable to forfeiture under the Merchandise Marks Act)
• Food declared unfit for human consumption
• Infected cattle, sheep or other animals, their carcasses, and hides, skins, horns, hoofs or other animal parts banned to prevent the spread of disease
Restricted
• Firearms and ammunition: label them with your name, your address in Guyana and the name and arrival date of your flight or ship, and hand them to the customs officer. Customs keeps them, against a receipt, until the Commissioner of Police (Guyana Police Force) issues a licence or permit and the customs duty is paid, or until permission to export them is granted.
• Plants, plant products and other regulated articles need an import permit from the National Plant Protection Organisation (NPPO, part of NAREI), unless the NPPO has exempted them, and an original phytosanitary certificate from the exporting country issued no more than 14 days before arrival. Customs does not release them until an NPPO officer authorizes it.
• Pets and other live animals: the import of animals is regulated by the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA). Contact the GLDA (tel. +592 220 6557) well before you travel for the permit and veterinary requirements.
• Wild animals and plants and products made from them: import needs a permit from the Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission. Guyana applies CITES.