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Travelling to Gibraltar |
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You need to go
through a Red or Green Channel.
Please remember that:
Customs carry out selective checks in both channels for the following prohibited or
restricted goods: drugs, firearms, ammunition, offensive weapons, (eg. flick knives etc),
explosives, fireworks, indecent or obscene material, fast launches, raw and worked ivory,
rigid inflatable boats of 6 metres or more, tobacco (cigarettes) in commercial quantities. |
| Goods you buy outside of Gibraltar |
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When you enter
Gibraltar you will pass through Customs and must declare everything in excess of the duty
free allowances obtained outside Gibraltar. There are allowances for goods that can be
imported free of duty by persons entering Gibraltar and who have not been in Gibraltar for
at least 24 hours immediately preceding the time of such entry and not more than once in
any calendar month:
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| Duty Free |
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| Tobacco
Products |
Cigarettes
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200 |
Cigarillos (cigars with a
maximum weight each of 3 grammes)
or |
100 |
Cigars
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50 |
| Smoking tobacco |
200 grammes |
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| Alcoholic
Beverages |
Spirits, liqueurs, cordials
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1 litre |
Fortified wines and sparking
wines
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2 litres |
| Still wines (other than
fortified wines) |
2 litres |
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| Perfume |
| Perfumes |
50 grammes |
| Toilet water |
0.25 grammes |
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No relief
shall be afforded to any person under the age of 17 years in respect of tobacco products,
alcoholic beverages or perfume. |
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| Other goods |
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| Articles of any other description
up to a total value of £32. NOTE:
Persons who regularly enter or return to Gibraltar are not entitled to
duty free importation. (Regularly is defined as persons who enter or return to Gibraltar
more than once in any calendar month).
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| Motorists |
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* A visitor
may import his car without payment of duty provided he is not a resident; he intends to
make only a temporary stay in Gibraltar; it is being imported for his own use (or that of
some other entitled visitor) and he will take it out with him when he leaves.
* Drivers of vehicles entering Gibraltar must be in possession of a
Green Card valid for any EU country; or UK Certificate of Motor Insurance; or Certificate
of Motor Insurance issued in accordance with Gibraltar law (no motor insurance facilities
are available at Entry points). Current registration documents and driving license is also
required.
* Caravans may only be imported provided a License has been previously
obtained from the office of the Collector of Customs
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| Special
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Purchase of motor vehicles on export plates:
There are two regimes under which a person may purchase and register a motor vehicle in
Gibraltar on export plates. Vehicles bought new in Gibraltar from a motor vehicle trader
by bona fide visitors and vehicles bought new in Gibraltar to exported from Gibraltar
attract a nil rate of duty if certain conditions are met. These conditions are contained
in Sections 20 and 21 of the Traffic (Licensing and Registration) Regulations.
Specimen of application form to be filled in by the applicant under Section 20 of the
Traffic (Licensing and Registration) Regulations;Application for G Registration under Section 20
Specimen of application form to be filled in by the applicant
under Section 21 of the Traffic (Licensing and Registration) Regulations;
Application for G Registration under Section 21
For further information please contact any of the licensed motor vehicle dealers in
Gibraltar or HM Customs, Gibraltar.
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| Smuggling |
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Smugglers are
individuals or groups who bring products into Gibraltar for resale without payment of
duty. Smuggling is a crime. Smugglers evade the payment of duty and undercut legitimate
trade. Uncontrolled smuggling could result in revenue shortfalls which would have to be
made up by you, the taxpayer.
Never carry anything into Gibraltar for somebody else.
Never bring prohibited goods into Gibraltar.
If you are driving, make sure that everyone travelling with you knows
what goods are prohibited or subject to import duty. If you smuggle goods in a car, the
car may be seized.
A pet may be tame, but rabies is a killer. Don’t even think of
smuggling an animal into Gibraltar. It could be carrying rabies and the consequences could
be disastrous.
If you are in any doubt, go to the Customs inquiry point.
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Drug smuggling
is a problem that faces everybody either directly as the family or friends of addicts, or
indirectly through drug-related crime. Customs believe that the best way to prevent the
distribution of drugs is to stop the drugs at the point of importation before they are
broken down into smaller quantities for distribution and sale.
Although Customs allocate substantial human and other resources to
tackling the drugs threat the public’s help is needed to seize more.
You can help stop smugglers bringing drugs into Gibraltar by reporting
suspicious activity.
DRUGS: if you see anything suspicious or if you have any
information on drug smuggling tell a Customs Officer or ‘phone Telephone No.77677 or
79988.
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| If you have a complaint |
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| If you have a complaint which the
staff, frontier, port or airport cannot sort out you should contact the Collector of
Customs who is the head of Customs in Gibraltar. The address is: Custom House, Waterport,
Gibraltar. Telephone 78879; FAX 78362.. E-Mail |
hmcustoms@gibraltar.gov.gi
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