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Last Updated on Monday, 25 May 2009 17:41

Items that you have in your possession when you go through Customs for your own personal/professional/leisure use are free of duty.

All items must be portable and in reasonable quantities in order to be free of duty. "Portable" means that you can carry the item in your hand, and/or by yourself without the assistance of a second person. "Reasonable quantities" means that you carry only such quantities as would normally be used by an individual while traveling for the duration of your trip.

For example, if you come to Costa Rica to surf, a reasonable quantity of surfboards that you can pass through Customs free of duty is one per person.

List of Duty Free Items:

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→ Appliances

→ Personal / Tourist Items

→ Sport Items

→ Hunting Equipment

Appliances

The reasonable quantities of the following items are one per person.

Answering machines
Cameras
Computers (Notebooks, Laptops, or Powerbooks only)*
Devices to record sounds or non-commercial photographs*
Digital cameras
Radios*
Recorders
Recording machines
Telescopes*
Televisions *
Video camera

(*) If the size of these items is such that you can carry them in a bag or in your hand, they will be free of duty.

Personal/Tourist Items

Alcoholic Beverages (1.3 gal. per adult)
Binoculars
Books
Calculators
Camping equipment (you must prove you are a tourist)
Candies & chocolates (4lbs. per person)
Child Toys
Cosmetics
Disks
Disposable articles
Film or magnetic tape (six rolls)
Food
Gloves
Jewelry
Manuscripts
Medicines/Narcotics
Musical instruments (portable instruments only)
Musical instruments accessories
Purses
Shoes
Stroller
Tapes
Tobacco Products (1.1 lbs. per adult)
Tools
Travel tools (must not be part of office, lab or workshop equipment)
Typewriter
Umbrellas
Wheelchair (if you are disabled)