If you buy tobacco and other products containing nicotine in a country within the EU for your own use, you don’t have to pay any extra fees. However, if you shop from a country outside the EU, there’s a limit to how much you can bring into Sweden without paying duty and tax on it. We’ll go through what you need to keep in mind if you plan to buy products with tobacco and/or nicotine on your next trip abroad. If you have any other questions about what you can bring in to Sweden and what you need to think about, you can easily ask our lawyers in the Kliently app.
Regardless of which country you’ve been in, you must be at least 18 years of age to be allowed to bring tobacco and products containing nicotine into Sweden. You also have to be able to show that what you’ve purchased is for your own or your family’s private use and you have to purchase and transport the products yourself. The customs official on site is the one who decides whether what you have bought can be considered reasonable for private use, but they do have some guidelines they follow. According to Swedish customs, these amounts are reasonable for private use:
- 800 cigarettes
- 400 cigarillos
- 200 cigars
- 1 kilo of smoking tobacco
- 1 kilo of other tobacco
How much tobacco can you bring into Sweden?
If you buy tobacco and products containing nicotine in a country outside the EU, you won’t have to pay any fees if you bring in less than:
- 200 cigarettes or
- 100 cigarillos or
- 50 cigars or
- 250 g of smoking tobacco or
- 250 g other tobacco products or
- a proportional mix of the products above
You can also bring duty-free snus to a total value of SEK 4,700 if you fly or take a ferry. Otherwise, you can only bring snus to the total value of SEK 3,300 duty-free. Snus is regarded a products along with goods like clothes, jewellery, technology, etc than you may buy on your trip. And so the total value of what you have bought on the trip cannot exceed SEK 4,700 and SEK 3,300 respectively.
There are certain products containing nicotine that, regardless of whether you have bought them from a country within the EU or outside, have a limit on how much you can bring into Sweden duty-free. Regardless of country, you can only bring with you:
- 20 ml e-liquid
- 200 g of other products containing nicotine, such as nicotine chewing gum and nicotine nasal spray.
Customs duties and taxes on tobacco and products containing nicotine
For any quantities above this, you have to declare the goods to the Swedish Customs and pay both customs duty and/or tax. Depending on what you want to bring in, the cost is different. Below you can see what the customs and tax charges are for different tobacco and nicotine products:
- For cigarettes, you have to pay 34 Swedish pennies/piece in customs duty and 202 Swedish pennies/piece in tax.
- For cigars, you have to pay 86 Serdish pennies/piece in customs duty and 226 Swedish pennies/piece in tax.
- For smoking tobacco, you have to pay SEK 428/kg in customs duty and SEK 2,495/kg in tax.
- For other tobacco products, you have to pay SEK 428/kg in customs duty and SEK 2,495/kg in tax.
- For snus, you have to pay SEK 104/kg in customs duty and SEK 785/kg in tax.
- For e-liquid from a country outside the EU, you have to pay SEK 320/liter in customs duty and SEK 3,300/liter in tax.
- For e-liquid from another EU country, you have to pay SEK 2,000/litre in tax.
- For highly concentrated e-liquids from a country outside the EU, you have to pay SEK 320/liter in customs duty and SEK 6,600/liter in tax.
- For highly concentrated e-liquids from another EU country, you have to pay SEK 4,000/litre in tax.
- For other products containing nicotine from a country outside the EU, you have to pay SEK 390/kg in customs duty and SEK 1,225/kg in tax.
- For other products containing nicotine from another EU country, you have to pay SEK 200/kg in tax.
