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Tobacco, alcoholic drinks and coffee

The excise goods delivered by "Duty free shops" and carried in the personal luggage of travelers leaving the territory of the Republic of Albania by air and by sea are exempted from payment of excise duties.

The goods delivered on the board of an aircraft during an international flight are also deemed as goods delivered from "Duty free shops".

The relief from import duties shall apply also for the goods listed below subject to the following quantitative limits per traveller:

a)         tobacco products:

  • 200 cigarettes, or
  • 100 cigarillos (cigars of a maximum weight of three grams each), or
  • 50 cigars, or
  • 250 grams of smoking tobacco, or a proportional assortment of these different products;

b)         alcohol’s and alcoholic beverages:

  •  distilled beverages and spirits of an alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 22% ABV; non-denatured ethyl alcohol of 80% ABV and over: one liter, or
  •  distilled beverages and spirits, and aperitifs with a wine or alcoholic base, tafia, sake‚ or similar beverages, of an alcoholic strength by volume not exceeding 22% ABV; sparkling wines, liqueur wines: two liters, or a proportional assortment of these different products; and
  • still wines two liters and 10 liters of beer.

c)         personal use of coffee:

  • 3 kg.

ATTENTION!  No relief for alcohol and tobacco shall be granted to travellers under 17 years old.

 

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