Anything you bring from home for your trip in Mozambique that you will reasonably require or use during your stay in Mozambique is considered personal effects and therefore, duty-free with no need to be declared. Personal effects include clothes, books, certain tools, etc. In order to take advantage of duty-free allowances, travelers should have nothing in excess of their own personal effects, other than the items below that are also allowed in, duty-free. Travelers should not have any commercial goods and no prohibited or restricted items. Each of these limits is per person including children (except tobacco and alcohol - which children under the age of 18 may not carry).
• Tobacco Products: 200 cigarettes, OR 100 cigarillos, OR 50 cigars, OR 250 grams of smoking tobacco
• Alcoholic Drinks: 1 liter of spirits AND 2.25 liters of wine. No beer is allowed to be imported into Mozambique.
• Perfumes: 50ml perfumes OR 250ml cologne/eau de toilette. This does not include aerosols which are considered toiletries and therefore duty-free.
• Pharmaceutical Products: A quantity considered reasonable for personal consumption.
• Groceries, Meats, and Other Goods: Up to a value of 5,000mt per person, children included. Keep receipts for your purchases.*
* You may take your own meat with you for personal consumption, but make sure it is frozen and properly sealed or vacuum packed. Note that if you are traveling through Swaziland to get to Mozambique you may not be allowed to take any meat into Swaziland - they are extremely strict on meat and meat products.
The following items are allowed, duty-free, however, they should be declared on the forms provided. These items are temporarily imported into Mozambique and they should return with you when you leave.
• Digital cameras, lenses, and accessories;
• Video cameras and accessories;
• GPS equipment (Garmin, TomTom, etc);
• Laptops and accessories;
• Portable televisions, DStv decoder, portable DVD player
• iPod, iPod docking station and accessories;
• hi-fi’s, radios, music systems;
• Microwaves and camping equipment;
• Fishing rods, tackle & equipment;
• Paddle-skis, kayaks, canoes;
• Boats, Bicycles, Quads, Motorcycles, Jet-skis, yachts
• Generators, Car Freezer / Fridges, portable compressor
• Desktop PC, Screen, Keyboard, Printers, and accessories
• Camping stoves, gas braais
Remember that if you have declared an item for temporary import you must bring that item back with you when you exit Mozambique. If the customs officials discover that an item is not present you will either have to return to fetch the item or customs will declare the item imported and you will have to pay a fine and the import duty on the item before you leave the country. Your passport will be retained until these requirements have been met.
Remember that your vehicle contents and baggage may be subject to an inspection regardless of the type of declaration that you have made. In general, all vehicles and trailers have to be inspected by a customs official on the Mozambican side in order to obtain a signature on your gate pass. This gate pass will be checked by the gate guard to ensure that firstly you have a customs stamp on it and secondly that you have a customs inspector’s signature on it prior to allowing you access into Mozambique.
When entering Mozambique, you need not declare up to US$ 5,000.00 or the equivalent, in cash or travelers' cheques. Above this limit, you are required to make a declaration to the customs officials of Mozambique (Alfandegas)
