Lesotho Border Posts

CUSTOMS REGULATIONS

All goods brought into Lesotho are subject to Customs control and baggage maybe subject to examination. Customs declarations are required upon arrival. False or incomplete declaration is an offence involving penalties, including forfeiture of any article.

Duty Free

The following items and quantities to a total value not exceeding M500.00 per person are allowed under rebate duty:

- 2 litres of wine per person, 1 litre spirits or other alcoholic beverages

- 200 cigarettes, 250 gm pipe tobacco, and 20 cigars.

- 50 ml perfume.

Any excess is charged import duty at a flat rate of 20%.

Visitors from Botswana , Namibia , South Africa and Swaziland , are not permitted to bring liquor into Lesotho .

Prohibited and Restricted Goods

Counterfeit coins or notes; dangerous weapons, including swords, cutlasses, bayonets, daggers, knives with cutting edges of 30 cm or more in length (excluding such knives as are ordinarily used for domestic purposes, agriculture or the meat trade); blasphemous material; indecent or obscene works or articles of an inflammatory nature such as certain pamphlets or posters.

Customs Officers and members of the Police Force give highest priority to drug detection and the legal penalties for drug trafficking are severe.

Domestic pets, livestock, seeds, bulbs, plants and trees may not be imported without payment of Customs and Sales Duty and are subject to quarantine restrictions.

Permits may be obtained from:
•  The Principal Secretary. Ministry of Agriculture & Food Security. P.O. Box 24 . Maseru 100. Lesotho