Prescription Glasses → Chile

Prescription glasses are personal effects — no declaration, duty, or restriction applies when entering Chile.

Details

Prescription eyewear in use and spare pairs are personal effects and enter Chile without declaration, duty, or any customs formality — this applies at every covered border. Carrying a copy of the optical prescription is practical (replacement abroad, pharmacy queries) but is not a customs requirement. Only obviously commercial quantities (a consignment of identical new frames) would engage Servicio Nacional de Aduanas as trade goods requiring declaration.

Quantity limit

Personal effects — worn pair plus spares

Leaving with this item

Prescription glasses and spare pairs may be exported from Chile freely at personal-use quantities.

Practical advice

Pack a spare pair in a different bag than your main pair, and carry the prescription copy — it makes replacing lost or broken glasses abroad far easier.

Customs authority

Servicio Nacional de Aduanas · https://www.aduana.cl/