2. Information
First of all, you need to read carefully about what you can bring into the country with you, without duties
and charges (Pages 3 and 4).
If you are planning to send a package to yourself before leaving the U.S., carefully read how to fill in the
postal form and Lithuanian laws regarding international packages and mail procedures in order to avoid
misunderstandings here and high customs fees (Pages 5 and 6).
Sample postage forms with valuable comments are located on Pages 7, 8, and 9.
If you have sent a big package from the States to Lithuania that is worth more than 60 U.S. Dollars, when
you arrive to Lithuania, you need to fill in travelers declaration form immediately at the Airport or at the
point where you cross the Lithuanian border. In that declaration, you should state what is in the package.
Please share this information with friends and family, who are going to send you something during your
time here.
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3. Customs Procedures
Customs information
Citizens of the Republic of Lithuania, as well as people from other countries, can carry only a limited
amount of goods free of duties and charges while coming to Lithuania. Each traveler, who crosses the
border of Lithuania, gets a traveler declaration, where all the articles, cash and goods need to be included.
Free of import duties and charges:
- Goods for personal use, including goods the value of which does not exceed the below indicated.
- Personal means of transport.
- Audio, video, data carriers, professional equipment, public information materials.
- Private property in case a traveler moves to Lithuania.
- Domestic appliances in case a person moves from the third country to Lithuania because of marriage, also
wedding presents under EUR 1000.
- 1480 LTL in cash if a traveler arrives by air or sea transport.
- 510 LTL if a traveler is under 15 years old or is in the crew of a transport vehicle.
- 1030 LTL for others.
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4. Restrictions:
If a person is over 17 years old:
Tobacco:
- Cigarettes – up to 200 units arriving by air, 40 units by other transport.
- Cigarillos (max weight of 3 g) - 100 units or 20 units by other transport.
- Cigars - 50 units or 10 units by other transport.
- Smoking tobacco – 250 g or 50 g by other transport.
Alcohol beverages:
- Alcohol by volume of 22% vol. and stronger - 1 liter or 0,5 liter by other transport.
- Alcohol by volume of less than 22% vol. - 1 liter or 0.5 liter by other transport.
- Still wines – 4 liters or 0.75 liters by other transport.
- Beer – 16 liters or 4 liters by other transport.
For more information about the customs in Lithuania, please visit:
http://www.cust.lt/web/guest/keleiviams/atvykstantistreciuju#en.
Food products
Travelers from third countries are not allowed to import meat and dairy products in the personal baggage
except for small amount for personal use for visitors from Andorra, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland,
Croatia, Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino, and Switzerland. To find out other peculiarities, please visit
http://vmvt.lt/en/.
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5. Information Regarding USA International Postage Procedures
All the information regarding postage procedures and mail preparation in USA can be found one official
United States Postal Services (USPS) website:
http://pe.usps.gov/text/imm/welcome.htm
Also, check the end of this document to find U.S. post form examples.
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6. Information Regarding International Package Taxation
Application of Import Value Added Tax (VAT) for Goods Received in Consignments
Article 40 of the Law on Value Added Tax of the Republic of Lithuania (Official gazette, 2002, No. 35-1271):
Import VAT shall not be chargeable on goods sent in non-commercial consignments of negligible value (packages with
documents, postal packages or postal parcels). A consignment shall be considered of negligible value, if the customs value
thereof is less than LTL 160. A consignment shall be treated as non-commercial if all the conditions listed below are
satisfied:
· the receiver of the consignment is a natural person;
· the items of property contained in the consignment are clearly intended for personal needs, i.e. neither the quantity of
goods nor their character gives grounds to presume that the items of property are intended for economic activities;
· the receiver of the consignment receives it from the sender free of charge;
· the consignment contains no goods subject to excise duty under the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Excise Duties;
· the weight of coffee contained in a consignment does not exceed 500 g (or 200 g of coffee extract and essence), the
weight of tea does not exceed 100 g (or 40 g of tea extract and essence).
Import duty shall be charged at the flat rate of 2, 5 % on goods contained in consignments sent by one private individual
to another, provided that such importations are not of a commercial nature and their intrinsic value does not exceed EUR
700.
Such flat-rate assessment shall not apply to goods for which the rate of duty set in the customs tariff is "free".
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7. Please look
carefully at Block
9: it does not say
anything about
insurance, so put
only the total
value in U.S.
dollars there. Do
not put higher
value than it really
is, otherwise you
will need to pay
custom fees, when
you will be taking
your package from
the Post Office.
Please refer to
Page 6 to see what
packages are not
taxed.
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10. If you have any further questions about the procedures and other
information regarding customs, packages, etc., please contact me
(Mindaugas Jocius):
E-mail: exservices@lcc.lt
Telephone: +370 637 62739
Or come to my office (21D, Human Resources wing).
Credit to Henrikas Urbonas for the 1st version of this document.
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