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DUTIABLE GOODS

Under Singapore law, it is mandatory for arriving travellers to pay taxes to bring in cigarettes, tobacco products and all goods exceeding the duty-free concession and Goods and Services Tax (GST) relief. For more details, please refer to Singapore Customs.

PROHIBITED AND CONTROLLED ITEMS

Here are some items that are not allowed into Singapore without proper authorisation.

  • Empty cartridges
  • Live bullets
  • Ornaments made from empty cartridges
  • Bullet-shaped lighters
  • Grenade-shaped lighters

  • Firearms
  • Stun guns
  • Replica guns
  • Antique guns
  • Toy guns
  • Gun-shaped lighters

  • Knuckle duster
  • Nunchaku
  • Ninja shoku
  • Ninja star
  • Truncheon

  • Flick knife
  • Butterfly knife
  • Handcuffs
  • Pepper spray
  • Catapult
  • Crossbow

Items that may affect community health, public safety and animal life also require an import license or authorisation from the respective authorities for entry into Singapore. Here are some controlled items categorised under the respective authorities:

Items

Competent Authority
  • Animals, birds and their by-products     

  • Plants, potting medium and organic fertilisers

  • Ornamental fish

  • Veterinary vaccines

  • Veterinary micro-organisms and plant pests

  • Pet food

National Parks Board
Tel: 1800 471 7300
www.nparks.gov.sg
www.nparks.gov.sg/feedback
 

 

Food of any kind, both raw and cooked (e.g., meat, seafood, fruits, vegetables, eggs and processed food products)

 

Singapore Food Agency
Tel: +65 6805 2871
www.sfa.gov.sg
www.sfa.gov.sg/feedback
  • Newspaper, books and magazines

  • Films, video tapes, VCDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs

  • CD/DVD-ROM and video games

  • Telecommunication and radio communication equipment

  • Walkie-talkies

 

Info-communications Media Development Authority
Tel: 1800 478 5478
www.imda.gov.sg
info@imda.gov.sg

 

 

  • Medicine products

  • Other health products containing schedule poisons

 

Health Sciences Authority
Tel: +65 6213 0838
www.hsa.gov.sg
hsa_info@hsa.gov.sg  

  • Ionising Radiation (IR) Irradiating Apparatus & Radioactive Material

  • X-ray equipment, devices containing radioactive materials, ore or any substances containing radioactive materials above the exemption limit,

    etc.

  • Non-Ionising Radiation (NIR)Irradiating Apparatus

  • Ultraviolet sunlamps, microwave ovens, selected ultrasound

    equipment (including high intensity focused ultrasound device), laser equipment (including laser pointers above regulatory limit of 5 milli-Watt), etc.

     

 


National Environment Agency (Radiation Protection & Nuclear Science Department)
www.nea.gov.sg
nea_rpnsd_tradenet@nea.gov.sg