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Customs Limits on Entry to Ireland from Portugal

  • 27-08-2012 3:18pm
    #1
    jossnjuice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 780 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    ive done a fair bit of googling on this but am still unsure of the answer.

    How many cigs are you allowed to bring back into ireland from within the EU, if they are for personal use?? (Which they will be).

    Going to portugal soon and wondering how many i can bring back in.

    Thanks in Advance!


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  • #2
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,895 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    In theory you can bring as many as you want. However, if you have more than 800, Customs might suspect that you're planning to sell them and are within their rights to confiscate them.

    (It's in the forum charter, btw. Please read it.)

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  • #3
    jossnjuice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 780 ✭✭✭jossnjuice


    Cheers BN,

    Even if they are all the same brand?? I thought it would be more likely they would pull you if you have a few brands with you??

    And how would one prove that they are for your own personal use???


  • #4
    jossnjuice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 780 ✭✭✭jossnjuice


    BeerNut wrote: »
    (It's in the forum charter, btw. Please read it.)

    Apologies, my bad, you can delete this thread if you want!


  • #5
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,895 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    jossnjuice wrote: »
    I thought it would be more likely they would pull you if you have a few brands with you?
    I would say so, yes. But don't you reckon the smugglers have twigged that one too?
    jossnjuice wrote: »
    And how would one prove that they are for your own personal use?
    That's the thing: you can't. It's your word against theirs and they have the final say. That's why there's the 800 cigarette no-hassle guarantee: anything beyond it is a gamble.

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  • #6
    jossnjuice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 780 ✭✭✭jossnjuice


    Thats what i was thinking!!

    thanks for your help!


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  • #7
    RustyNut
    Registered Users Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    BeerNut wrote: »
    That's the thing: you can't. It's your word against theirs and they have the final say. That's why there's the 800 cigarette no-hassle guarantee: anything beyond it is a gamble.

    There was a case brought to the European court a few years ago against the UK and the outcome was that the authority's have to prove they are not for personal use not the other way round. No time now I'll google it later.


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