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Zimbabwe duty free

The following items may be imported into Zimbabwe once a month by travellers aged 18 and over without incurring customs duty:

• 5L of alcoholic drinks (of which up to 2L may be spirits).

• Goods up to the value of US$200 except for foods like flour, sugar, meat, fish, powdered milk, yoghurt, cheese, eggs, jam and honey etc. as well as appliances like stoves and refrigerators and furniture like beds among other things, which always incur duty.

Prohibited Imports

Prohibited items include pornographic or obscene literature, flick knives, lockable knives, skin lightening creams containing hydroquinone and mercury, counterfeit money, prison-made goods, alcoholic drinks containing noxious chemicals, and anything deemed to threaten the morals of Zimbabweans.

Restricted items include drugs, firearms and ammunition, wildlife and wildlife products, agricultural produce, plants and plant products, soil, cultural relics and monuments, and local and foreign currency.

Prohibited Exports

All banned and restricted imports and also banned or restricted from being exported.