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Papua New Guinea duty free

The following may be imported into Papua New Guinea by travellers over 18 years of age without incurring customs duty:

• 200/250 cigarettes or 250g of tobacco or 50 cigars.

• 2L of alcoholic beverages.

• 1L of perfume.

• New goods up to a value of K6,000 (K3,000 for children under 18).

Prohibited Imports

Prohibited items include counterfeit bank notes and coins, goods manufactured using prison labour, flick knives, matches containing white or yellow phosphorus, parrots, parakeets and related birds, plastic shopping bags, gaming machines, and firearm silencers.

Restricted items requiring special permission or certification include animals, narcotics, fireworks, fish, food, goods considered a danger to the community, pornographic and violent publications and films, goods that infringe intellectual property rights, literature advocating the overthrow by force of any country, literature inciting hostility against the Papua New Guinea government, pesticides, plumage and skins of birds of paradise and crown pigeons, rice, radioactive substances, tear gas, and vaccines.

Prohibited Exports

Dangerous drugs are completely prohibited.

Restricted exports requiring special permission include crocodiles and their parts, flora and fauna, timber, geological and fossil materials, alluvial gold, pearl-shell oysters, natural cultural property, and goods acquired illegaly.