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TobaccoBelgium

What travelers need to know about tobacco in Belgium. What is legal at home can be a serious crime here — each rule links to its official source.

Short answer

Tobacco in Belgium: restricted — there are real limits travelers must follow.

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RESTRICTED

Coming into Belgium from outside the EU you get ONE of: 200 cigarettes, 100 cigarillos, 50 cigars, or 250 g of smoking tobacco - and the allowance only applies from age 17. Use the red exit ("Goods to declare") if you are over the limit. If customs find you over it, you pay the duties and taxes AND a fine, so declaring is the cheaper move.

Exceeding the allowance without declaring costs the import duties and taxes PLUS a fine; goods subject to specific measures may be seized. FPS Finance, verbatim: 'you will have to pay not only the import duties and taxes due, but also a fine'. No fine amount is published on this page and none is invented here.

§ SPF Finances / FOD Financien (Belgian FPS Finance) - Douane, "Vous voyagez en Belgique avec des marchandises d un Etat non membre de l UE", table "Marchandises sans caractere commercial" (FR and NL versions both read)
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