Dear passengers,

If you travel across one of 52 border points in Bosnia and Herzegovina (40 passenger/ 4 air / 8 railway border points), you should be aware of the below mentioned rights and duties that you as natural persons are entitled to when crossing state border.

The items of  "personal luggage" belonging to a passenger coming from abroad are exempted from import duties if they are not subject to any restrictions or prohibitions provided that these importations are not of commercial nature.

"Personal luggage" means all non-commercial items for personal usage of passenger’s or his/her household, including items that he/she uses in the course of travelling, provided that there is evidence that at departure it was registered as accompanying luggage with a company that transferred luggage from the country of departure to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tariff preferences with the below mentioned quantity restrictions per passenger and per day are applied to:

1. non-commercial goods, including gifts and souvenirs from a passenger’s personal luggage, with the customs value of no more than BAM 200,
2. tobacco products:
   • 200 cigarettes or
   • 100 cigarillos or
   • 250 g of tobacco,
3. liquour:
   • 2 litres of table wine,
   • 1 litre of liquour or spirits with more than 22% of alcohol (of 2 litres of strong wine, champagne or any other beverage);
4. perfumes and eau de toilette:
   • 60 cc/ml of perfume,
   • 250 cc/ml of eau de toilette.

Special Note: Passengers younger than 17 are not allowed to import goods mentioned under items 2 and 3.

You can find all information related to passenger traffic, including information on bringing hunting and sport guns into Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the:

• Instructions on Customs Procedure for Passenger Traffic ("Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina" No. 93/06)
  • Annex 1 (Items for Personal Use)
  • Anexx 2 (List of Items Temporarily Brought In/Taken Out by the Passenger)
  • Annex 3 (Application for Temporary Import/Temporary Export/Transit of Sporting and Hunting Weapons and Ammunition)

The officials of Indirect Taxation Authority and their colleagues from the Border Police of B&H are jointly responsible for border safety. If you need any information on border crossing procedure related to passports, traffic documents for vehicles or visa regime, you can contact the officials of the Operations Centre at the Border Police Headquarters, phone number +387 33 755 300, who are at your disposal 24 hours a day.