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Travelling to Taiwan

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Entry requirements by nationality

  • Argentina: visa required
  • Australia: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • Brazil: visa required
  • Canada: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • Chile: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • France: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • Germany: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • India: electronic travel authorisation (ETA) required — up to 30 days per visit
  • Israel: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • Italy: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • Japan: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • Malaysia: visa-free short stay — up to 30 days per visit
  • Mexico: visa required
  • Netherlands: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • New Zealand: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • Singapore: visa-free short stay — up to 30 days per visit
  • South Korea: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • Spain: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • Ukraine: visa required
  • United Kingdom: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit
  • United States: visa-free short stay — up to 90 days per visit

What you can bring

  • Alcohol: allowed, within limits — Inward passengers aged 18 or over may bring in "alcoholic beverage 1.5 liters or less" duty-free. Above that, up to a total of 5 liters may be brought in with duty paid. Alcohol from Mainland China is treated more strictly: "limited to only 1 liter of controlled alcoholic beverage imported from Mainland China" even within the paid-duty allowance.Detailscompare everywhere →
  • Cannabis: prohibitedDetailscompare everywhere →
  • Cash: depends on specifics — Taiwan sets hard caps, not just declaration thresholds, on two currencies: "Each passenger can't bring more than NT$100,000 with him/her when entering or leaving Taiwan" and separately "Renminbi is limited up to RMB$20,000" — amounts above either cap cannot be brought in at all, even with a declaration. Other foreign currencies work differently: amounts "in excess of US$10,000 (or its equivalent in other foreign currencies) must be declared," but there is no maximum once declared. Negotiable securities with a face value over US$10,000 must also be declared, with no cap.Detailscompare everywhere →
  • CBD: prohibited — Taiwan applies an unusually strict THC threshold: if a CBD product's THC content exceeds 10 parts per million (0.001%) — far stricter than the 0.2-0.3% thresholds used in the US, EU, Japan or Thailand — it is classified as a Category 2 narcotic under Appendix 2 of the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act and treated the same as cannabis itself. Even below that threshold, importing a CBD product without prior Taiwan FDA (TFDA) approval is illegal: "violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act results in imprisonment up to 10 years and a fine up to 100 million NT dollars" for unauthorized import of an unapproved drug.Detailscompare everywhere →
  • Controlled medication: depends on specifics — For personal Schedule 1-3 controlled drugs (examples the Ministry gives: sleeping pills like zolpidem, triazolam, flunitrazepam, and opioids like morphine and fentanyl), "the amount cannot exceed that on the prescription," a medical institution certificate or a diagnostic certificate/prescription copy from the attending physician is required, and the total is capped at a 6-month supply. For Schedule 1-3 controlled drugs specifically, travelers may send TFDA "a declaration and medical diagnostic certificate to apply for a certification document" in advance under Article 18 of the Enforcement Rules for the Controlled Drugs Act.Detailscompare everywhere →
  • Drones: depends on specifics — Drones with a maximum take-off weight over 250g must be registered with Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) before flying (Regulations of Drone, Art. 6(1)); drones under 250g owned by an individual are exempt from registration. Foreign nationals bringing their own drone face an extra step regardless of weight class for anything requiring registration: under Art. 38(1)-(2), they must submit documents to the CAA and can only fly "after CAA's certification," and a foreign visitor holding valid drone credentials from their home country can get that certification valid for "a maximum of six month after the date of issuance."Detailscompare everywhere →
  • E-cigarettes: 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."Detailscompare everywhere →
  • Fresh produce: prohibited — "禁止攜帶活植物及其生鮮產品" ("Bringing live plants and fresh plant products is prohibited"), with an exception only for items that separately comply with plant quarantine regulations. Fresh fruit specifically has been banned from passenger baggage since 1 October 1998.Detailscompare everywhere →
  • Meat & dairy: prohibited — "Almost all kinds of meat products made from land animals are NOT permitted to carry into Taiwan." The fine for bringing in undeclared meat products generally is "NTD 10,000 to NTD 1,000,000" under infectious-disease-prevention law. Pork specifically is under a further, harsher rule: Taiwan has "banned the import of all kinds of pork products from ASF [African Swine Fever]-infected areas," with a first-time violation fined at a flat "NTD 200,000, regardless of nationality," rising toward NT$1 million for repeat violations; foreign nationals who don't pay the fine at the border are repatriated.Detailscompare everywhere →
  • Prescription medication: allowed, within limits — Non-prescription (OTC) medicine: "maximum 12 units per type, 36 total units combined" (bottles/boxes/tubes as packaged). Prescription medicine without a doctor's note or prescription copy: "restricted to a 2-month supply." Prescription medicine with a doctor's note/prescription copy: up to a "maximum 6-month supply," not exceeding the documented reasonable dose.Detailscompare everywhere →
  • Tobacco: allowed, within limits — Passengers aged 20 or over may bring in duty-free: "200 cigarettes, or 25 cigars, or 1 pound of tobacco, or 200 designated tobacco products" (the last covering products like heated-tobacco sticks that aren't cigarettes/cigars/loose tobacco).Detailscompare everywhere →
  • Weapons: prohibited — "Firearms (including shotguns, air guns, fishing guns, etc.), ammunition (including artillery shells, bullets, bombs, explosives, etc.), and knives referred to in the Act Governing the Control of Guns, Ammunition and Knives" are prohibited, "excluding those permitted by competent authorities."Detailscompare everywhere →

Checked against official sources on 2026-09-22. Official source

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