Can you bring fresh fruit or produce to Uruguay?

Short answer
Prohibited

  • Fresh produce

    prohibited

    Customs doesn't allow: plants, their parts and related products; fresh fruit and vegetables; seeds, crafts with seeds and plant products; flowers, ornamental plants and in-vitro cultures; soil, and fruit, vegetable, forage or forest plants or their parts (branches, cuttings, buds, bulbs and similar).

    From customs' baggage page, last updated 19/03/2014. Goods subject to specific controls are released only with the agreement of the competent body (such as the agriculture ministry, MGAP).

    Also covers: fruit, vegetables, plants, seeds, flowers, fresh produce

    Source Dirección Nacional de Aduanas — Baggage of foreign tourists and returning Uruguayans (last updated 19/03/2014)Checked against the source on 2026-10-21

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