Can I bring E-cigarettes and Vaping Devices to France?

⚠️EU residents' personal-use items whose type and number are not commercial are admitted without formalities only if they are neither prohibited nor subject to circulation restrictions (customs may ask for proof they were bought tax-paid in the EU or that any duties and taxes due were already paid in the EU); travellers residing outside the EU customs territory can place their own devices that are personal effects reasonably necessary for the journey, staying temporarily and unmodified, under temporary admission through the "nothing to declare" channel, subject to the temporary-admission conditions. Product-specific admission and declaration requirements still apply, independently of any monetary relief. For arrivals from third countries or territories outside EU customs or VAT/excise rules, subject to the tax-scope qualifications below, devices and e-liquids bought or received as gifts and brought into metropolitan France share the traveller’s allowance with all other eligible goods in personal luggage. Declare if the combined value exceeds €430 (plane or boat) or €300 (car, train or other transport) for travellers aged 15 and over, or €150 for under-15s, or if any single item is worth more than the allowance (an item's value cannot be split or pooled between travellers, and such an item is taxed on its full value); pay applicable VAT and any customs duties due. Personal luggage includes baggage presented to customs on arrival, or presented later to the same authorities with proof it was registered as accompanied baggage at departure with the carrier. The €430 air/sea allowance does not apply to private pleasure flying or private pleasure sailing — use of an aircraft or vessel by its owner or by someone using it through hire or otherwise, for non-commercial purposes, other than carrying passengers or goods for consideration, supplying services for consideration or public-authority purposes; for those journeys €300 applies to travellers aged 15 and over (€150 under 15 is unchanged). The allowance covers only occasional imports consisting exclusively of goods for personal or family use or intended as presents, whose nature or quantity does not indicate import for commercial reasons; personal luggage imported temporarily, or re-imported after temporary export, is not counted in the value; neither are medicines needed for the traveller’s personal needs nor goods subject to the separate quantitative allowances in Article 12 of Directive 2007/74/EC. Frontier-zone residents, frontier-zone workers (whose normal activities require crossing the frontier on work days), and crew of a means of transport used to travel from a third country or a territory outside EU VAT/excise rules have reduced allowances of €75 (aged 15 and over) or €40 (under 15); confirm with French customs whether you fall into these categories. The reduced allowances do not apply if the traveller produces evidence of going beyond the frontier zone of the destination Member State or of not returning from the frontier zone of the neighbouring non-EU country, but they still apply to frontier workers and transport crew bringing in goods while travelling for work. For travellers arriving in France from the UK, UK-origin goods are free of customs duties under the EU–UK trade and cooperation agreement, but VAT still applies to taxable imports above the applicable allowance: when the goods in your personal luggage are for personal or family use or gifts, their purpose, nature and quantity are noncommercial, and their value is above the applicable allowance and up to and including €1,200, a simple verbal declaration is sufficient for the customs procedure; above €1,200 you must prove UK origin with a statement of origin from the exporter or another document proving it, otherwise customs duties apply. For goods arriving from the French overseas departments, the Channel Islands or the Canary Islands, French Customs provides no customs duties, but VAT applies to taxable imports above the same applicable value thresholds, subject to the tax-scope qualifications below. Arrivals from Andorra have a specific duty-free value regime; check that allowance with French customs. For VAT/excise under Directive 2007/74/EC, on journeys transiting a third country or beginning in a territory outside EU VAT/excise rules, traveller-relief rules apply unless you establish that the goods were acquired under an EU Member State’s general domestic-market taxation conditions and do not qualify for any VAT/excise refund. Overflight without landing is not transit. For this Directive, Monaco is not a third country; San Marino is not a third country for excise only. These qualifications do not themselves create a customs-duty exemption; VAT, excise and customs duties are distinct and payable only where applicable.