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• Goods worth up to NOK 6,000 per person after a stay abroad of at least 24 hours. After a shorter stay you can bring goods worth up to NOK 3,000, once within a 24-hour period. Alcohol, tobacco and nicotine products are not counted in these amounts.
• Tourists who live outside Norway can bring personal belongings for use during the stay (such as clothing, phones and laptops) with no value limit, as long as they take them out again. The NOK 6,000 limit applies to goods that stay in Norway, such as gifts.
• Alcohol quota: 1 L of spirits (over 22% and up to 60%), 1.5 L of wine or other drinks over 2.5% and up to 22%, and 2 L of beer over 2.5% (or cider/alcopops over 2.5% and up to 4.7%). You must be at least 18 to bring beer and wine and at least 20 to bring drinks over 22%.
• The alcohol quota can be exchanged: the spirits quota for 1.5 L of wine or beer, and the wine quota for the same amount of beer. For example, you can bring 3 L of wine and 2 L of beer, or 5 L of beer. Weaker drinks cannot be exchanged for stronger ones, and tobacco cannot be exchanged for alcohol.
• Tobacco quota for travelers aged 18 or older who live outside Norway: 200 cigarettes or 250 g of other tobacco products (or 20 ml of nicotine e-liquid or 200 g of other nicotine products), plus 200 sheets of cigarette paper. Residents of Norway get half these amounts. Duty-free shops at Norwegian airports sell no more than 100 cigarettes or 125 g of tobacco per person.
• After a stay abroad of less than 24 hours, alcohol and tobacco are duty-free only if you can show that local taxes were paid in an EEA country (not bought tax-free).
• Up to 10 kg in total of meat, meat products, cheese and animal feed per person (dog and cat food is not counted). Children under 12 can bring only soft drinks, chocolate and sweets duty-free.
• Up to 50 packets of garden seeds and small amounts of fruit, vegetables, plants and flowers for personal use.
• The quotas are per person. If you bring more, declare the excess in the red channel or in the official Norwegian Customs app, which also calculates the quota and lets you pay duty before you reach the border.
• Arriving on the mainland from Svalbard or Jan Mayen counts as returning from abroad for the value limit and quotas.
Currency
• There is no limit on the amount of money you can bring in, but cash and other means of payment (Norwegian or foreign notes and coins, gift cards, etc.) worth more than NOK 25,000 must be declared. Go to the red channel on arrival and hand in the declaration form in two copies. No tax is charged on the amount.
• If you do not declare, you will be fined 20% of the entire amount or reported to the police.
Prohibited
• Drinks with more than 60% alcohol by volume
• Illegal drugs, including cannabis
• Meat, milk and products made from them from countries outside the EU/EEA, unless you have a special permit from the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet). Exceptions: meat and dairy for private use from Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Andorra and San Marino; up to 2 kg of packaged powdered infant milk, infant food or special medical food that needs no refrigeration (infant milk and food from China excluded); bread, cakes, chocolate, sweets and pasta not filled with meat.
Restricted
• Medicines for personal use: up to 1 year's supply when arriving from an EEA country and up to 3 months' supply from outside the EEA. Carry a prescription, medical certificate or pharmacy label, ideally with the medicine in its original packaging.
• Medicines containing narcotic substances (and CBD products) must be declared in the red channel. Visitors who live outside Norway may bring up to 30 days' supply with a copy of the prescription or a doctor's letter; more needs a permit from the Norwegian Medical Products Agency. Medicines on the doping list are limited to 30 days' supply.
• Nicotine e-cigarettes and e-liquid may be brought only for your own use as a smoking-cessation product, up to 1 year's supply from the EEA or 3 months' supply from outside the EEA. Customs may ask for a prescription or medical certificate.
• Firearms, firearm parts and ammunition: visitors coming to hunt or compete need a European Firearms Pass (for stays of up to 3 months) or a licence from the Norwegian police, applied for at least 2 months before arrival, plus a valid firearms licence from their home country. Without the pass you must declare the firearm in the red channel.
• Fireworks and explosives need a permit from the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning (DSB) and must be declared in the red channel. Fireworks found in the green channel are confiscated.
• Endangered animal and plant species and products made from them (CITES), for example items from elephants, leopards, tigers, wolves, wolverines, some crocodiles and snakes, some orchids and cacti, need a permit from the Norwegian Environment Agency.
• Potatoes may not be brought in without special permission.
• Dogs, cats and ferrets need a microchip and a valid rabies vaccination. From outside the EU/EEA they also need an animal health certificate and, unless coming from a listed country, a rabies antibody test. Dogs must be treated against the Echinococcus tapeworm by a vet 24 to 120 hours before arrival. Pets from outside the EU/EEA may enter only via Oslo Airport Gardermoen or Storskog (Kirkenes), and pets must be taken through the red channel. Check the rules with the Norwegian Food Safety Authority before travel.
• Some dog breeds considered dangerous may not be brought in without a special permit from the police. Birds, rodents, rabbits, horses and exotic animals have separate rules.
• Goods worth up to NOK 6,000 per person after a stay abroad of at least 24 hours. After a shorter stay you can bring goods worth up to NOK 3,000, once within a 24-hour period. Alcohol, tobacco and nicotine products are not counted in these amounts.
• Tourists who live outside Norway can bring personal belongings for use during the stay (such as clothing, phones and laptops) with no value limit, as long as they take them out again. The NOK 6,000 limit applies to goods that stay in Norway, such as gifts.
• Alcohol quota: 1 L of spirits (over 22% and up to 60%), 1.5 L of wine or other drinks over 2.5% and up to 22%, and 2 L of beer over 2.5% (or cider/alcopops over 2.5% and up to 4.7%). You must be at least 18 to bring beer and wine and at least 20 to bring drinks over 22%.
• The alcohol quota can be exchanged: the spirits quota for 1.5 L of wine or beer, and the wine quota for the same amount of beer. For example, you can bring 3 L of wine and 2 L of beer, or 5 L of beer. Weaker drinks cannot be exchanged for stronger ones, and tobacco cannot be exchanged for alcohol.
• Tobacco quota for travelers aged 18 or older who live outside Norway: 200 cigarettes or 250 g of other tobacco products (or 20 ml of nicotine e-liquid or 200 g of other nicotine products), plus 200 sheets of cigarette paper. Residents of Norway get half these amounts. Duty-free shops at Norwegian airports sell no more than 100 cigarettes or 125 g of tobacco per person.
• After a stay abroad of less than 24 hours, alcohol and tobacco are duty-free only if you can show that local taxes were paid in an EEA country (not bought tax-free).
• Up to 10 kg in total of meat, meat products, cheese and animal feed per person (dog and cat food is not counted). Children under 12 can bring only soft drinks, chocolate and sweets duty-free.
• Up to 50 packets of garden seeds and small amounts of fruit, vegetables, plants and flowers for personal use.
• The quotas are per person. If you bring more, declare the excess in the red channel or in the official Norwegian Customs app, which also calculates the quota and lets you pay duty before you reach the border.
• Arriving on the mainland from Svalbard or Jan Mayen counts as returning from abroad for the value limit and quotas.
Currency
• There is no limit on the amount of money you can bring in, but cash and other means of payment (Norwegian or foreign notes and coins, gift cards, etc.) worth more than NOK 25,000 must be declared. Go to the red channel on arrival and hand in the declaration form in two copies. No tax is charged on the amount.
• If you do not declare, you will be fined 20% of the entire amount or reported to the police.
Prohibited
• Drinks with more than 60% alcohol by volume
• Illegal drugs, including cannabis
• Meat, milk and products made from them from countries outside the EU/EEA, unless you have a special permit from the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet). Exceptions: meat and dairy for private use from Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Andorra and San Marino; up to 2 kg of packaged powdered infant milk, infant food or special medical food that needs no refrigeration (infant milk and food from China excluded); bread, cakes, chocolate, sweets and pasta not filled with meat.
Restricted
• Medicines for personal use: up to 1 year's supply when arriving from an EEA country and up to 3 months' supply from outside the EEA. Carry a prescription, medical certificate or pharmacy label, ideally with the medicine in its original packaging.
• Medicines containing narcotic substances (and CBD products) must be declared in the red channel. Visitors who live outside Norway may bring up to 30 days' supply with a copy of the prescription or a doctor's letter; more needs a permit from the Norwegian Medical Products Agency. Medicines on the doping list are limited to 30 days' supply.
• Nicotine e-cigarettes and e-liquid may be brought only for your own use as a smoking-cessation product, up to 1 year's supply from the EEA or 3 months' supply from outside the EEA. Customs may ask for a prescription or medical certificate.
• Firearms, firearm parts and ammunition: visitors coming to hunt or compete need a European Firearms Pass (for stays of up to 3 months) or a licence from the Norwegian police, applied for at least 2 months before arrival, plus a valid firearms licence from their home country. Without the pass you must declare the firearm in the red channel.
• Fireworks and explosives need a permit from the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning (DSB) and must be declared in the red channel. Fireworks found in the green channel are confiscated.
• Endangered animal and plant species and products made from them (CITES), for example items from elephants, leopards, tigers, wolves, wolverines, some crocodiles and snakes, some orchids and cacti, need a permit from the Norwegian Environment Agency.
• Potatoes may not be brought in without special permission.
• Dogs, cats and ferrets need a microchip and a valid rabies vaccination. From outside the EU/EEA they also need an animal health certificate and, unless coming from a listed country, a rabies antibody test. Dogs must be treated against the Echinococcus tapeworm by a vet 24 to 120 hours before arrival. Pets from outside the EU/EEA may enter only via Oslo Airport Gardermoen or Storskog (Kirkenes), and pets must be taken through the red channel. Check the rules with the Norwegian Food Safety Authority before travel.
• Some dog breeds considered dangerous may not be brought in without a special permit from the police. Birds, rodents, rabbits, horses and exotic animals have separate rules.