Act FAQs
Support tools and answers to your questions.
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- Travel to and from New Zealand
- Travelling to New Zealand
- Non-scheduled flights and private flights
- Duty free shopping
- Human remains/ashes and placenta
- Medicines
- Electronic device examinations
- Leaving New Zealand
- Recreational vessels, yachts and small craft
- Border processing levies
- Border Cash Report
- Import
- Start importing
- Import Prohibited and restricted imports
- Import animals
- Tobacco
- Commercial vessels
- Cruise ship operators
- Valuation for import
- Lodge your import entry
- Preferential tariff duty rates
- Customs rulings
- Customs rates of exchange
- Import payments
- MyCustoms Account
- Deferred accounts for importers
- Deferred accounts for brokers
- Refunds and drawbacks
- Split shipments
- Import forms and documents
- Paying Customs - Business
- Broker with a deferred account
- Broker Goods Clearance Fees Accounts
- Broker paying on behalf of the customer
- Broker payment of deposit for temporary import/Sight entry
- Customs duties
- Duty payers, including excise clients
- Goods Clearance Fees Account
- Importers with deferred accounts
- Excise
- What is excise?
- Apply for a licence
- Lodge your excise entry
- Claim excise duty remission or refund
- Pay excise duty and other charges
- Apply for excise duty credit or drawback
- Moving excisable items
- Changing, suspending or cancelling your licence
- Amend, surrender or transfer your licence
- Change your entry or payment timeframe
- Excise forms and documents
- Excise Duty Estimator
- Duty-free alcohol permits