Duty Free
The following goods may be imported into the Maldives Republic without incurring customs duty: A reasonable amount of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco; a reasonable number of gifts.
Prohibited items: Pornographic literature; idols of worship; pork products and certain other animal products; explosives, weapons or drugs may not be imported.
Alcoholic beverages cannot be imported without an official licence.
Drugs are strictly prohibited; the penalty for importing drugs for personal or other use is life imprisonment.
Animals require a veterinary certificate, but dogs cannot be imported.
The following may not be exported in any form: turtle shells and products made of turtle shell (the Government has banned the killing of turtles), black coral, eel, puffer fish, parrotfish, skate and ray, big-eyed scad under 15cm (6 in), bait fish used in tuna fishery, dolphin, whale, lobster, all stony coral, triton shell, trochus shell and pearl oyster.