Children's crayons, finger paints, and watercolour paints You may not be able to bring in some animal and plant products (Ministry for Primary Industries). In some cases, they will need to treat your items first – you will have to pay for this service. Once MPI officers have inspected your items, they may return them to you. If you don’t declare these items, MPI might: any shoes, sports or outdoor equipment you’ve used.fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, poultry, honey, ingredients used in cooking, and all dairy products.You must declare any items that could be risky (Ministry for Primary Industries) on your passenger arrival card.
Agricultural itemsĪny pests or diseases that come in with your items could cause serious damage to New Zealand’s environment and economy. You might be able to bring in prescription medicines if you can show us a valid doctor’s prescription. This includes medicines containing pseudoephedrine. You may not be able to bring some medicines into NZ, especially controlled drugs. live species, including pet eagles, hawks, owls and parrots, many cacti, orchids, cycads, and cyclamens.trophies of sea turtles, all big cats, rare reptiles, cranes, pheasants, bears, antelope, and deer.carvings or other things made from whalebone or bone from other marine mammals.medicines containing musk, or rhinoceros or tiger derivatives such as ground horn or bone.meat or food derived from whales, dolphins, rare crane, and pheasants, or sea turtles.tortoise or sea turtle shell jewellery, and ornaments.ivory in any form, including jewellery, and carvings.anything which you’re planning to use in a crime.equipment for using cannabis or methamphetamine.any weapon which is disguised as something else.weapons like flick knives, butterfly knives, swordsticks, knuckle-dusters.objectionable material contained on items like videotapes, films, records, CD-ROMs and in publications.
You can’t bring any of these items into NZ: Some items are prohibited and cannot be imported into New Zealand, and some require approval to import.