Q&A about international items

You can pay taxes and duties at the post office when collecting your item. When collecting, a valid ID (personal identification card, passport, driving license) must be presented.

When a private person from a third country is sending a non-commercial postal item the value of which does not exceed EUR 45 and the addressee is going to receive the item in the member country of the European Union, a certain amount of tobacco products, alcohol, and alcohol beverages as well as fragrance may be imported without charges.

When the value of an exported/imported item is EUR 1,000 or higher, export/import single administrative document, i.e. mandatory written customs declaration, must be completed. Upon the customer’s request, the import/export declaration can be completed by Lithuania Post, or the customer may choose another company providing customs intermediary services.

Based on article 165 of Commission Regulation No. 2454/93 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation No. 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code, all postal charges levied up to the place of destination in respect of goods sent by post must be included into the customs value of these goods, except for cases when postal items contain goods of non-commercial nature. This Regulation can be found at the webpage of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (www.lrs.lt) using the tool for document search.

The goods with value exceeding EUR 700 sent from third countries are charged with import duties set in Council Regulation No. 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff. Customs duties applied to imported goods and terms and conditions governing import can be found at the website of the Customs of Lithuania www.cust.lt at http://litarweb.cust.lt/taric/web/main_EN.

Postal items containing goods purchased by legal and private persons (ordered via the Internet, from a catalogue, purchased at an auction) are admitted free of import duties if the value of a postal item does not exceed EUR 150. Import VAT is not levied on such postal items if customs value (total) of each item does not exceed EUR 21.72. The relief is not applied to goods subject to excise duties.

When ordering goods online from third countries, it is necessary to obtain documents grounding purchase transaction, e.g. number of your order/good purchased online, invoice and/or payment document generated by Paypal or e-bank payment system.

Postal items sent to other countries are handled by several post offices; therefore, the sender may face more problems related to mail delivery.

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