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Bringing E-Cigarettes & Vapes Into a Country — What Each Destination Requires

What's allowed, limited, or prohibited for e-cigarettes or vapes in every destination we've verified, cited to each country's own customs authority.

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  • Albania
    • depends on specifics — Albania's tobacco-control law (Law No. 9636, as amended through 2024) defines "smoking" to include electronic cigarettes, and permits their retail sale (18+ only) subject to restrictions — but the law's provisions found in this pass are about domestic manufacture, marketing and retail-sale channels (e.g., a ban on selling tobacco products, including via the definition covering e-cigarettes, "through the postal service"), not a traveler-facing import quantity.

      The Customs Authority's own traveler duty-free page (used for the tobacco and alcohol allowances above) does not mention e-cigarettes, vapes, or e-liquid at all — unlike tobacco, there is no stated personal duty-free allowance or explicit ban for travelers bringing a vape. Domestically, nicotine liquid may only be placed on the market in refill containers up to 10ml or disposables up to 2ml, with nicotine concentration capped at 20mg/ml — whether this domestic market-placement rule is enforced against a traveler's personal device wasn't confirmed. Treat this as unresolved rather than clearly allowed or banned.

      Checked 2026-09-22 — Law No. 9636, dated 6.11.2006 "On the Protection of Health from Tobacco Products" (as amended through 2024)

  • Australia
    • allowed, within limits — Traveller's exemption for vapes entering by ship or aircraft, for the traveller's own use (or someone they're caring for who is travelling with them): maximum 2 vapes, 20 vape accessories (cartridges/capsules/pods), and 200 mL of vape substance in liquid form

      Vapes cannot otherwise be purchased from overseas retailers or websites and mailed/couriered into Australia for personal use, even with a prescription — that route is prohibited outright. Vapes containing controlled drugs (e.g. cannabis) are not covered by these quantity limits and are treated as prohibited drugs instead. Significant penalties apply for unlawfully importing vaping goods.

      Checked 2026-08-12 — Therapeutic Goods Administration — Vapes: information for individuals and patients

  • Brazil
    • prohibited

      ANVISA Resolution RDC 855/2024 explicitly prohibits the entry of electronic smoking devices into Brazil by travelers in any form, including in accompanied luggage, alongside a nationwide ban on their manufacture, import, sale, distribution, storage, transport and advertising.

      Checked 2026-09-16 — ANVISA RDC 855/2024, via the WHO FCTC Implementation Database

  • Canada
    • allowed, within limits — Maximum of 120 millilitres (liquid) or 120 grams (solid) duty-free

      Minimum age 18 to bring tobacco or vaping products into Canada.

      Checked 2026-08-10 — CBSA — Alcohol and tobacco limits

  • China
    • allowed, within limits — General Administration of Customs Announcement No. 102 of 2022 (effective 1 November 2022) allows passengers to duty-free carry 2 e-cigarette devices plus 6 cartridges/liquid products totaling 12ml or less. Travelers on Hong Kong/Macao routes get a lower allowance (1 device, 3 cartridges, up to 6ml); frequent cross-border travelers get less still (1 device, 1 cartridge, up to 2ml, once per day). Travelers under 16 may not carry e-cigarettes at all.

      The announcement number and exact figures are corroborated identically across multiple independent Chinese sources (news outlets, tax-law reference sites, industry sites) — a direct fetch of customs.gov.cn itself still fails on a self-signed certificate, the same block this project has hit on Chinese government domains throughout, so this is strong search-corroboration rather than a directly read government page.

      Checked 2026-09-18 — General Administration of Customs of China, Announcement No. 102 of 2022 (海关总署公告2022年第102号) — E-Cigarette Taxation

  • Egypt
  • Georgia
    • allowed, within limits — Within the same passenger tobacco allowance (aged 18+, hand luggage/baggage, personal or family use or as a gift), the Revenue Service's brochure allows 50 ml of electronic-cigarette liquid duty-free per 30 calendar days. E-cigarette liquid is expressly excluded from the general GEL 500 / GEL 3,000 goods-value allowance and from the food allowance, so it can't be brought in under those.

      This covers the customs duty-free allowance for e-liquid only. The brochure doesn't address vaping devices themselves, nicotine strength limits, or Georgia's domestic tobacco-control rules for e-cigarettes, and no separate Georgian import ban on devices was found in this pass — confirm devices and pods with Georgian Customs if you're carrying more than a personal setup.

      Checked 2026-09-21 — Revenue Service of Georgia — Exemption from import duties and the obligation of declaring goods carried by an individual (customs brochure)

  • Hong Kong
    • prohibited — "No person may import an alternative smoking product by way of parcels, cargoes, and bringing in by incoming travellers." The ban covers e-cigarettes, heated tobacco (heat sticks), herbal cigarettes and their accessories, regardless of quantity or personal use. Import penalty on summary conviction: a fine of HK$500,000 and two years' imprisonment.

      Since 30 April 2026 it is also an offence to possess a specified alternative smoking product in a public place: a HK$3,000 fixed penalty for small non-commercial quantities (up to 5 capsules / 5 mL / 100 heat sticks / 100 rolls), or a fine of up to HK$10,000 on conviction, and up to HK$50,000 and six months' imprisonment for larger quantities. Don't pack a vape, pods or heat sticks for Hong Kong, even in checked luggage; the Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office page doesn't describe any personal-use exception.

      Checked 2026-09-21 — Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office, Department of Health — Ban on Alternative Smoking Products

  • India
    • prohibited — The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Act, 2019 makes it a criminal offence for any person to produce, manufacture, import, export, transport, sell, distribute, or advertise electronic cigarettes (or any part of one) in India — there is no personal-use or personal-baggage exemption in the Act's text.

      Section 7 penalty for a first offence: up to 1 year imprisonment and/or a fine up to Rs. 1,00,000 (one lakh); a second or subsequent offence carries up to 3 years imprisonment and a fine up to Rs. 5,00,000 (five lakh). This is a genuine, high-stakes traveler trap: a device that is legal and commonly carried in many other countries is a criminal offence to bring into India, not merely a confiscated item.

      Checked 2026-08-13 — Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Act, 2019 (Act No. 42 of 2019), Sections 4 and 7

  • Indonesia
  • Ireland
    • depends on specifics — Revenue's traveller allowances for arrivals from outside the EU list allowances for cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars and smoking tobacco only — there is no vaping-specific allowance, and Revenue's list of prohibited/restricted goods in baggage does not mention e-cigarettes or vapes. Since 1 November 2025 Ireland charges an E-Liquid Products Tax of 50 cent per millilitre on e-liquid (nicotine and non-nicotine), but Revenue says it applies "the first time an e-liquid product is supplied by a business in the State", i.e. it falls on importers, manufacturers and suppliers, not on a traveller's own device.

      This row records what the traveller guidance does and doesn't say — no source found either sets a personal-import quantity for vapes or bans carrying one. Whether e-liquid in luggage is treated under the general €430 goods allowance is not stated by Revenue and is an inference, not a confirmed rule. Vapes are regulated at the point of sale (nicotine inhaling products licence, no sale to under-18s, under the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023), which is a retail rule rather than a border one.

      Checked 2026-09-21 — Revenue (Ireland) — Revenue publishes guidance on new 'Vape Tax' (E-Liquid Products Tax); traveller allowances page: https://www.revenue.ie/en/customs/individuals/info-travelling-duty-free/from-outside-eu/allowances.aspx

  • Japan
    • allowed, within limits — "税関限りの確認で通関が可能なカートリッジの数量は、用法用量からみて1ヶ月分" ("The quantity of cartridges that can clear customs with only a customs check is one month's supply, based on directions for use") — quoted directly from MHLW's own Q&A on pharmaceutical import procedures. Nicotine-containing e-cigarette cartridges and liquid are classified as pharmaceutical products under Japanese law (with the vaporizer device itself classified as a medical device), which is why this general pharmaceutical-import framework — the same one covering Japan's other medication rows in this dataset — applies to them.

      Above a 1-month supply, a Yakkan Shoumei (pharmaceutical import certificate) from a Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare is required, following the same process as Japan's other prescription/controlled-medication rows. Devices themselves (mods, pod systems, batteries) aren't restricted by this framework, though airline lithium-battery rules still apply. Disposable vapes were reportedly banned nationwide in April 2025 — a separate, more recent development not covered by the Q&A document cited here.

      Checked 2026-09-19 — Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) — Q&A on Pharmaceutical Import Procedures (医薬品等輸入手続質疑応答集)

  • Kenya
    • depends on specifics — Kenya's e-cigarette import status is actively contested in court, not settled. Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale announced a directive on 31 May 2025 suspending the manufacturing, importation, distribution, sale and promotion of nicotine products and requiring all existing licensees to reapply. On 4 June 2025, Justice Bahati Mwamuye of the High Court issued a conservatory order — following a petition by Susan Awino — restraining the government "from implementing or enforcing the decision suspending all licences and import clearances," pending full determination of the case. A separate, broader ban announcement is also reported for 30 July 2025.

      No Kenya Gazette notice was found for either the ban or the court order — this is reported only through Kenyan mainstream press (The Standard), not a government-primary document. Given the active litigation, don't treat either 'banned' or 'allowed' as settled — check current status before relying on this for travel planning.

      Checked 2026-09-18 — The Standard (Kenya) — 'Court halts CS Duale's ban on nicotine product licences and importation'

  • Malaysia
    • depends on specifics — Import of nicotine and of nicotine-containing preparations 'of a kind used for vaporizer smoking' (vape liquid/gel) is a conditional prohibition: it is prohibited except under an import licence from the Ministry of Health's Pharmaceutical Services Programme (Customs (Prohibition of Imports) Order 2023, Second Schedule Part I, item 4). Separately, the Customs Department's traveller duty-free list expressly excludes electronic cigarettes and vaporising devices and their liquids, so they are dutiable and must be declared in the Red Lane.

      Neither the Order nor the Traveler's Guide sets a personal-use quantity or grants travellers an exemption from the licence requirement — treat carrying nicotine vape liquid as risky and check with Malaysian Customs or the Ministry of Health first. Vaping products are also regulated under the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Act 2024 (Act 852, in force 1 October 2024); that Act's own text and any traveller-specific provisions were not read in this pass.

      Checked 2026-09-21 — Customs (Prohibition of Imports) Order 2023, P.U.(A) 117 — Malaysia Attorney General's Chambers

  • Maldives
    • prohibited

      Airport operator's customs page: "Since 15 November 2024, the Maldives has banned the import of all vaping devices — both disposable and reusable — e-cigarettes, and related accessories. Devices and accessories are confiscated at customs. A receipt is issued and items can be collected on departure." Vaporizers appear on its list of retrievable items given a receipt. Press reports say the ban was extended on 15 December 2024 to possession and use inside the country; that extension was not confirmed on an official page in this pass.

      Checked 2026-09-21 — Maldives Airports Company — Velana International Airport: Customs & Security, Prohibited & Restricted Items

  • Mexico
    • prohibited

      E-cigarettes and similar personal electronic/electric vaporization devices — including heated-tobacco and nicotine-delivery systems — are explicitly listed by ANAM as merchandise that cannot be brought into Mexico (tariff classification 8543.40.01 LIGIE).

      Checked 2026-08-12 — ANAM — Mercancía que no puedes ingresar a México

  • Morocco
    • allowed — No import or sale ban exists — Morocco's 2024 Finance Law (PLF-2024) raised the import duty on disposable e-cigarettes from 2.5% to 40%, and a further fixed internal consumption tax of 50 dirhams per disposable unit took effect in January 2025. A new IMANOR product safety/labeling standard for smoke-free products takes effect February 2026.

      Confirmed via consistent reporting across 7 independent Moroccan financial/business press outlets (Le Desk, La Vie Éco, H24info, Le360, Médias24, and others), not a direct Morocco Customs (douane.gov.ma) fetch — that domain and its specific circulars are bot-blocked from this environment. Treat the 'no ban, just rising duties' finding as solid; verify the exact current duty rate against douane.gov.ma directly when it becomes reachable.

      Checked 2026-09-18 — Le Desk — 'PLF 2024: le droit d'importation des cigarettes électroniques jetables augmenté à 40%'

  • New Zealand
    • allowed, within limits — Vaping products aren't mentioned anywhere on NZ Customs' own duty-free FAQ page, and aren't covered by the tobacco-specific concession (limited to 50 cigarettes, or 50g of cigars/tobacco/a mixture) — so they fall under the general goods concession instead: "You'll have to pay GST and duty if you bought more than NZ$700 in total" of duty-free items and related purchases.

      This corrects a previously-uncorroborated claim of a '3 month supply' vape-specific allowance, which doesn't appear anywhere on NZ Customs' actual site — the real rule is simpler: no vape-specific concession exists, so the general $700 threshold governs instead. Vaping products are regulated inside New Zealand (a disposable-vape sales ban, retailer age-verification rules) rather than at the border specifically.

      Checked 2026-09-19 — New Zealand Customs Service — Duty-Free Shopping FAQs

  • Philippines
    • depends on specifics — RA 11900 ("Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products Regulation Act", signed 25 July 2022) legalized and regulates vape products under the DTI, but sets no statutory personal-import quantity cap. Customs applies an informal, discretionary "reasonable personal use" standard instead of a fixed number.

      This is the genuine, honest answer rather than a research gap — the law's full text is directly reachable and doesn't specify a quantity, and no DTI or Bureau of Customs page with a concrete traveler allowance was found either. Don't assume a specific number applies; expect discretion at the border.

      Checked 2026-09-18 — Republic Act No. 11900 — Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products Regulation Act

  • Saudi Arabia
    • depends on specifics — Since around August 2020, Saudi Customs has banned individuals from importing e-cigarettes, shisha and their accessories through shipping companies and personal website purchases — goods imported this way are confiscated, a fine is imposed, and a seizure record is registered. Companies licensed by the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) may still import these products in commercial quantities.

      This measure is specifically about shipping/mail-order/online-purchase import channels for individuals — it does not clearly say whether it also restricts what a traveler personally carries in accompanied luggage, and that distinction wasn't confirmed either way in this pass. Don't assume it's safe to bring a personal vape in checked or carry-on baggage just because this rule targets shipping specifically — but also don't assume accompanied baggage is covered by the same ban. Corroborated identically across 5 independent outlets (Saudi Gazette, Zawya, Al Bawaba, Riyadh Xpress, Vaping Post); every direct fetch of the Saudi Gazette article itself returned HTTP 402 (paywalled), so this is strong multi-source corroboration rather than a directly read primary article. Separately, Arab News (directly fetched and quoted) traces the same underlying policy back further: the Ministry of Commerce and Investment banned e-cigarette/vaping sales in September 2015, and "considers anyone bringing them in from abroad to be smuggling" — broader phrasing than 'shipping only' — so the individual-import restriction isn't a one-off report, it's a long-standing, consistently-described policy, even though the accompanied-baggage question specifically remains unresolved. Domestic sale/possession has separately been legal since Royal Decree 38621 (2019) — don't confuse 'legal to own in Saudi Arabia' with 'legal to personally import.'

      Checked 2026-09-19 — Saudi Gazette — 'Customs ban individuals from importing electronic cigarettes' (c. August 2020)

  • Serbia
    • allowed, within limits — Quoted directly from Customs: passengers "are also allowed to carry related tobacco products in their luggage in quantities for personal use (electronic cigarettes, vapes, nicotine pouches and hookah aromas)". No specific numeric limit (device count or e-liquid volume) is given — only the general "personal use, not for resale" standard that applies to the whole tobacco-products allowance.

      Oral nicotine pouches are listed together with e-cigarettes/vapes as allowed; this is separate from snus (smokeless tobacco for oral use), which is the one tobacco-related product Customs explicitly prohibits.

      Checked 2026-09-22 — Customs Administration of the Republic of Serbia — Passenger Customs Clearance FAQ (Tourists)

  • Singapore
    • prohibited — E-cigarettes, vaporisers, and components/imitation tobacco products of this kind are banned outright for import, possession, purchase, and use - there is no personal-use allowance.

      Confirmed via Singapore Customs' prohibited/controlled goods listing, citing the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) Tobacco Regulation Branch: 'Imitation tobacco products (electronic cigarettes, vaporisers) and components of imitation tobacco products' are prohibited, as is 'any solution or substance...intended to be used with an electronic nicotine delivery system or vaporizers.' HSA actively enforces this at the border and reports frequent seizures/prosecutions, including for adulterated vape pods (e.g. etomidate-laced products) in 2026.

      Checked 2026-09-02 — Singapore Customs - Controlled and Prohibited Goods for Imports

  • South Africa
  • South Korea
    • allowed, within limits — "e-cigarette/liquid nicotine 20ml (Nicotine percentage less than 1%)" — quoted directly from the Korea Customs Service's own English-language duty-free allowance page.

      Reaching 20ml or more, or a nicotine concentration of 1% or more, moves the item out of the duty-free allowance; secondary sources describe nicotine concentrations above 1% as treated as a toxic substance and confiscated, though that specific enforcement detail wasn't read directly on this page.

      Checked 2026-09-18 — Korea Customs Service (English site) — Duty-Free Allowance for Travelers

  • Taiwan
    • prohibited — "Passengers are NOT allowed to carry e-cigarettes and e-liquids into Taiwan." Violators "may be fined between NT$50,000 and NT$5 million according to Paragraph 1 of Article 15 and Paragraph 2 of Article 26 of the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act."

      Taiwan's amended Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act (in force since 22 March 2023) fully bans e-cigarettes — manufacture, import, sale and use — and separately regulates heated-tobacco products like IQOS, which are also barred for travelers to bring in. If merely transiting Taiwan for another destination, devices can be declared and deposited at the bonded luggage counter for collection on departure, rather than being confiscated outright.

      Checked 2026-09-22 — Customs Administration, Ministry of Finance (Taiwan) — Are Passengers Allowed to Bring Electronic Cigarettes into Taiwan?

  • Thailand
    • prohibited

      Thailand has banned the import of e-cigarettes, vape pens, pod systems, e-liquids, and related devices/accessories nationwide since a 2014 Ministry of Commerce notification (import/export control), enforced via Customs Act B.E. 2560 (2017) ss. 244 and 246. There is no personal-use or tourist exemption and no way to declare vapes to make importing them legal. Penalties include confiscation and criminal liability (importers: up to 10 years' imprisonment or a fine of 5x the goods' value; possession: up to 5 years or a fine of 4x the value). Enforcement at airports and tourist areas has intensified through 2025–2026. This is a genuine, actively-enforced prosecution risk for travelers who assume vaping is treated like ordinary tobacco.

      Checked 2026-08-13 — Thailand.go.th (Royal Thai Government official information portal) — Electric and electronic cigarettes are illegal in Thailand: prohibition on importing by tourists

  • Turkey
    • allowed, within limits — Presidential Decision No. 2149 (Resmi Gazete Issue 31050, 25 February 2020), Art. 1, bans commercial import of e-cigarettes and electronic hookahs outright, but Art. 2(2) explicitly authorizes the Ministry of Commerce to separately regulate traveler-accompanied entry of these goods. A Ministry of Commerce implementing circular is commonly cited elsewhere as setting the personal allowance at 1 device plus 30ml of e-liquid, or 10 disposable devices.

      The decree itself (directly fetched and quoted) only establishes that a personal-traveler exception exists and delegates it to the Ministry of Commerce — the specific 1-device/30ml figures come from secondary sources describing that ministry's implementing circular, not the decree text itself.

      Checked 2026-09-18 — Presidential Decision No. 2149 (Resmi Gazete Issue 31050, 25 February 2020), Arts. 1-2

  • United Kingdom
    • allowed, within limits — Counted under the general personal-goods allowance of £390 (no separate vape category yet)

      A dedicated Vaping Products Duty and a distinct duty-free allowance take effect from 1 October 2026 — check gov.uk closer to your travel date.

      Checked 2026-08-10 — gov.uk — Bringing goods into the UK for personal use

  • United States
    • allowed

      CBP's own prohibited-and-restricted-items page (which does cover alcohol, firearms, food, plants, medication and more) doesn't mention e-cigarettes or vapes anywhere — the absence is the finding. FDA/CBP material about e-cigarette import compliance (marketing authorization, Submission Tracking Numbers, import alerts) addresses commercial importers, not a traveler carrying their own already-owned device; a personal vape falls under the general personal-goods rules, not a dedicated restriction.

      Checked 2026-09-18 — U.S. Customs and Border Protection — Prohibited and Restricted Items

  • Vietnam
    • prohibited

      National Assembly Resolution 173/2024/QH15 bans the production, trade, importation, possession, transportation and use of e-cigarettes and heated-tobacco products nationwide, in force since 1 January 2025; Vietnam Customs directed all customs departments (Official Letter No. 17/TCHQ-GSQL) to halt clearance of these products, and a December 2025 follow-up resolution closed related loopholes.

      Checked 2026-09-16 — WHO Viet Nam — National Assembly Resolution 173/2024/QH15 banning e-cigarettes and heated tobacco