Tobacco Cigarettes 🇸🇬 Singapore
No duty-free tobacco allowance. All tobacco must be declared and duty paid.
Can I bring Tobacco Cigarettes into Singapore?
No duty-free tobacco allowance. All tobacco must be declared and duty paid.
No limit, but all tobacco is dutiable — no duty-free allowance
SGD 427 per kilogram (approx. SGD 0.45 per cigarette)
- Declaration at customs; duty payment required
Required at the destination customs authority
Full details
Singapore has eliminated its duty-free tobacco allowance entirely. Since 2014, all tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, loose tobacco, and heated tobacco products) brought into Singapore are subject to Singapore customs duty. The duty rate is SGD 427 per kilogram or part thereof, which translates to roughly SGD 0.45 per cigarette. There is no quantity limit to how much can be imported, but all tobacco must be declared and duty paid. Undeclared tobacco is subject to seizure and fines. Duty must be paid before clearing customs. This applies to all travellers including Singapore residents returning from abroad.
Active — Customs actively enforces this rule.
At the airport
- Singapore has no duty-free allowance for tobacco. All cigarettes must be declared and duty paid on arrival unless you are a non-resident returning from Malaysia.
- Proceed to the Red Channel at Changi and declare all cigarettes. Pay Singapore Customs the excise duty (SGD 0.427 per stick) plus 9% GST.
- Undeclared cigarettes are subject to confiscation and a SGD 500 per stick composition fine for first offences. Retain your duty payment receipt.
Permitted in transit. Singapore's 'no duty-free cigarettes' rule applies to persons entering Singapore. Transit passengers who remain airside at Changi Airport and do not pass through immigration are not subject to Singapore's tobacco import restrictions. Cigarettes in checked baggage may transit through Changi without customs duty.
Alcohol: 1L spirits AND 1L wine AND 1L beer (total 3L) for travelers who have spent 48+ hours outside Singapore and are not arriving from Malaysia. Travelers from Malaysia or spending less than 48 hours abroad get no alcohol allowance. No tobacco duty-free concession since January 2023 — all tobacco is dutiable. General goods relief: SGD $500 (approx. $370 USD) for 48+ hours, SGD $100 for under 48 hours.
Declare all tobacco at customs and pay duty. Undeclared cigarettes found by customs result in fines much higher than the duty cost.
No limit, but all tobacco is dutiable — no duty-free allowance
- Declaration at customs; duty payment required
SGD 427 per kilogram (approx. SGD 0.45 per cigarette)
Customs Act (Cap. 70); Singapore Customs GST and Excise Duty on Tobacco
This page covers destination customs rules in Singapore. Whether you can carry tobacco cigarettes through security, in carry-on, or in checked baggage depends on airline and screening rules — see air travel rules.
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25 cigarettes duty-free per adult. Excess requires import permit and duty payment.
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400 cigarettes or 50 cigars duty-free
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200 cigarettes duty-free for travelers over 19
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🇪🇸 Spain
200 cigarettes from non-EU; 800 from EU
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🇿🇦 South Africa
200 cigarettes duty-free