Sex Toys → France

No specific import restrictions for personal sex toys

Details

No specific import restrictions for personal sex toys. Quantity guidance for France: Personal use. Documentation: Retail packaging with ingredient list. Allowed status assumes personal-use quantities — commercial-scale amounts move the entry into formal import procedures with duty and documentation. Arrival checks are carried out by Direction générale des douanes et droits indirects (DGDDI — French Customs); when in doubt use the declare (red) channel — declared goods at worst attract duty or surrender, while undeclared goods attract penalties. Leaving France with sex toys is a separate question: allowed — Personal adult products may be exported from France freely; several destinations prohibit them at import.

Quantity limit

Personal use

Documentation required

• Retail packaging with ingredient list

Leaving with this item

Personal adult products may be exported from France freely; several destinations prohibit them at import.

Practical advice

Personal-use Sex Toys may be brought into France freely under the personal-effects allowance. Retail-packaged commercial products with clear ingredient labelling clear inspection faster than loose-packed or home-prepared cosmetics. Commercial import requires the destination's cosmetic-product notification (EU CPNP, US FDA cosmetic registration, China NMPA registration, Korea MFDS registration, ASEAN ACD, etc.).

Customs authority

Direction générale des douanes et droits indirects (DGDDI — French Customs) · https://www.douane.gouv.fr