Is it legal to bring tobacco over the allowance in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
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Legal position
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Bosnia and Herzegovina allows limited duty-free tobacco in travellers' personal luggage, but excess tobacco is outside the passenger relief. Once the allowance is exceeded, import duties and other taxes apply and customs can treat undeclared excess as an offence.
Conditions
What would need to be true
The relief is limited to up to 200 cigarettes, or 100 cigarillos, or 50 cigars, or 250 grams of smoking tobacco, or a proportional combination.
Exceptions
Known carve-outs or edge cases
Travellers under 17 do not get the tobacco relief.
Penalties
Penalty snapshot
Excess tobacco can trigger customs duties, VAT, excise and seizure or customs-offence measures if it is not properly declared.
Enforcement
How this may be enforced
Customs officers check the passenger quantities at the border and published customs notices report confiscations for undeclared or controlled goods.
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Albania
Albania allows certain tobacco products in passenger traffic, but the customs relief is tied to passenger allowances and non-commercial personal luggage. Tobacco over the allowance loses the benefit of the passenger exemption and should be declared.
Algeria
Algeria's official customs leaflet allows only limited personal tobacco quantities on entry. Bringing more than the published passenger allowance is not duty-free and falls outside the simplified traveller relief.
Argentina
Argentina's baggage rules set duty-free limits for tobacco products such as cigarettes and cigars depending on the travel route. Bringing more than the allowance takes you outside the automatic exemption.
Austria
Austria allows tobacco to be brought in within traveller allowances, but goods above the allowance must be declared and duties become payable.
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