Duty-free goods
Some goods are eligible for duty relief due to their specific circumstances.
Photo: Mette Ottosson
Goods that may be imported duty free are often also exempt from VAT and other charges, which might otherwise apply.
- Aircraft equipment
- Ancillary materials for the stowage and protection of goods during their transport
- Articles intended for people with disabilities (in Swedish)
- Capital goods imported on the transfer of activities from a third country (in Swedish)
- Consignments of negligible value
- Consignments sent to organisations protecting copyrights or industrial and commercial patent rights
- Educational, scientific and cultural materials
- Goods for charitable organisations
- Goods for embassies, consulates and international organisations
- Goods imported for examination, analysis or test purposes
- Goods intended for trade fairs
- Goods to be used by monarchs or Heads of State
- Honorary decorations
- Importing using a Certificate of Airworthiness (in Swedish)
- Instruments and apparatus intended for medical research, establishing medical diagnoses or carrying out medical treatment
- Laboratory animals and biological or chemical substances intended for research
- Litter and feed for animals during their transport
- Materials for the construction, upkeep or ornamentation of memorials to, or cemeteries for, war victims
- Military equipment (in Swedish)
- Miscellaneous documents and articles
- Pharmaceutical products
- Pharmaceutical products used at international sports events
- Presents received in the context of international relations
- Printed matter and advertising material
- Products obtained by Community farmers on properties located in a third country adjacent to the EU
- Reference substance samples for the quality control of medicinal products
- Returned goods (in Swedish)
- Samples of goods
- Scientific instruments and apparatus (in Swedish)
- Seeds, fertilizers etc. imported by agricultural producers having their principal undertaking in a third country for use in properties in the EU
- Therapeutic substances of human origin and blood-grouping and tissue-typing reagents
- Tourist information literature