What you can bring into Taiwan

Alcohol: 1.5 litres

Any number of bottles, for travellers aged 18 or over.

Tobacco: one of these

200 cigarettes, or 25 cigars, or 1 pound of tobacco, or 200 sticks of a designated tobacco product approved by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. For travellers aged 20 or over.

Your own things

Things you own and use, each piece or set worth NT$10,000 or less, as long as they are not controlled goods.

Everything else: up to NT$35,000

Other goods for your own use are duty free while their total value stays at NT$35,000 or less.

New Taiwan dollars over NT$100,000

Foreign currency (including HK and Macau dollars) over the equivalent of US$10,000

Renminbi over 20,000

Meat products

Almost no meat products from land animals may be carried in, and all pork products from areas with African swine fever are banned. A first offence with pork is fined NT$200,000 whatever your nationality, and a foreigner who does not pay the fine at the border is sent back.

Customs Administration, page released 2025-05-09

E-cigarettes and unapproved heated tobacco

Since 22 March 2023 Taiwan bans the import, sale and use of e-cigarettes and other imitation tobacco, and heated tobacco products the Ministry of Health and Welfare has not approved. The legal smoking age is 20.

Health Promotion Administration, page published 2023-09-28