Studying in New Zealand: A Guide to Entry and Exit Knowledge

You must know the entry and exit procedures for studying in New Zealand. Do you know what students should not be brought into or out of the country? Customs inspection is very strict. If you are not stuck here at the customs, you should read the following article carefully.

Entry procedures and formalities

1. On the plane, the stewardess will give each passenger two forms. They are: New Zealand Entry Card (light green). New Zealand customs and quarantine declaration form (white), passengers must fill in English before getting off the plane. Form 1 and Form 2 are translated into Chinese to help passengers fill in. Forms are also available at the Immigration Department.

After passing through the customs passport control desk, find your luggage and take the green or red channel. If you have nothing to declare, choose the green channel. If you have items or cash to declare, choose the red channel.

2. After disembarking at Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch International Airport, you need to go through the immigration formalities, and then go to the baggage carousel to pick up your luggage.

If you arrive by cruise ship and never return to the ship, you need to fill in the entry card and go through the New Zealand Customs. If you are willing to return to the ship, the cruise conductor will put your name on the list of transit passengers.

Category of passenger quota

If the articles carried by inbound passengers are used for commercial purposes or exceed the duty-free quota, they must declare and pay customs duties and goods and services taxes.

1 Personal belongings need not be declared.

Each passenger's personal belongings are exempt from customs duties and goods and services tax, but they must fully meet the following conditions: they belong to their own private ownership; It will only be used for personal use and will not be resold; Not carried in large quantities or used for commercial purposes.

Simply put, personal belongings are what passengers need to wear, wear and use.

For example: clothes, shoes and hats, watches, hair dryers, cologne, perfume, razors, jewelry and so on.

2 personal effects

Everyone's articles must fully meet the following conditions:-they are not brought into the country for commercial, business or trade purposes; -not for others; -Not cigarettes, tobacco or alcohol; -Not for personal use.

3. duty-free goods

If you are above 17, the duty-free items you can bring are:

4.5 liters of wine or beer (six bottles of 750 ml) and one bottle of 1 125 ml of spirits and other drinks.

200 cigarettes or 250 grams of tobacco or 50 cigars, or the total weight of three items does not exceed 250 grams.

Other projects total S $700. Please keep your shopping receipt.

Guide to tariff calculation and tax rate

I believe many passengers are interested to know how much duty they have to pay on goods and services once the goods they carry exceed the customs quota.

How to calculate the duty payable?

The customs calculates tariffs according to the transaction price of the goods. The transaction price of an item is the real purchase price paid by the owner. If the goods carried by passengers are donated by others, so the purchase price is unknown, customs officials will decide the taxable value of these goods by themselves.

Tariff = transaction price x tariff rate

In addition to customs duties, passengers must also pay taxes on goods and services.

Goods and services tax = (transaction price+tariff) X 12.5% payable tariff (comprehensive tax) = tariff+goods and services tax.

Cash application

In order to cooperate in combating and detecting money laundering and other serious criminal activities, New Zealand Customs requires passengers to apply for carrying cash.

The definition of cash only includes coins and paper money; Others, such as traveler's checks, money orders, bonds or cashier's checks, do not need to be declared.

Prohibited or restricted articles

You should not bring the following items into New Zealand:

Guns and weapons (including sports guns), unless you get approval from the New Zealand police when you arrive at the New Zealand airport. The website of the New Zealand police has information about bringing guns into the country.

Prescription drugs, unless you have a doctor's prescription with you.

Pirated goods.

Bad (obscene) articles, such as CDs, publications, etc.

Agricultural products with restricted entry and quarantine requirements

Many pests, plant diseases and animal infectious diseases that are common in other parts of the world do not exist in New Zealand. We have made great efforts to reduce the risk of invasion of these pests and diseases.

If you arrive with the following prohibited items, you may be severely punished:

Include animal products such as fur, feces, feathers, bones, corals, eggs and conch shells. Some items are forbidden to be brought in because they may hide pests and diseases. Others are banned because they may cause harm to endangered species.

Fresh and perishable foods, such as fruits, vegetables and meat.

Articles made of plant products. These items may carry living seeds or pests. Inspection is needed to decide whether there is any risk.

pet

If the specific regulations are not met, in order to prevent the introduction of pests and diseases, live animals may not be allowed to enter New Zealand. Please refer to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry for more information about goods restricted by customs.

Instructions for carrying drugs

Some tourists from China who come to New Zealand have practiced using certain drugs in their places of origin, or they will take them with them for backup.

New Zealand is a country with developed civilization and high respect for human rights. The government allows passengers to carry applied drugs. However, the import control of drugs here is very strict. Passengers carrying drugs must meet three conditions: 1 prescription of western medicine; Western medicine proves in writing that patients need to take these drugs to treat diseases or maintain their lives; These drugs are still in the original packaging (preferably intact).

Customs officials will review the relevant documents and check whether the packaging is suspicious before release.

Don't use fake invoices

1 When passengers buy electronic equipment or other items abroad, some stores will take the initiative to issue price invoices to them, indicating that passengers have paid a lower payment.

When passengers arrive in New Zealand, never provide such price invoices to the customs to reduce or avoid paying customs duties. Otherwise, the consequences may be very serious, and the loss will definitely outweigh the gain.

Although New Zealand Customs generally determines the taxable value according to the invoice of the goods, experienced customs officials can easily find that the declared value of the goods is unreasonable. They have the right to re-evaluate the hungry value of the goods at the price approved by the customs.

Passengers must also know that whether they declare false tax information to the customs or provide price invoices to customs officials, they are hiding their dutiable goods from the customs. In other words, this is also a crime of smuggling.

The punishment for the crime of smuggling may be very severe. In addition to confiscating passengers' belongings, the customs also requires passengers to pay a considerable fine. More seriously, passengers may be prosecuted by the customs, and finally punished by the judge, leaving a criminal record. Therefore, it is the best way to honestly apply for the information and value of taxable items and submit real invoices.

Don't smuggle drugs

Smuggling drugs to New Zealand, the price of smugglers is imprisonment and loss of freedom!

Even if he is released from prison after serving his sentence, if he is not a hungry New Zealand citizen, the New Zealand government will immediately expel the criminal from the country. As for other countries, drug smugglers who are convicted of serving their sentences will also be classified as persona non grata.

Please remember not to carry luggage or packages for strangers. Cunning drugs often use unsuspecting passengers to carry drugs through customs. If someone says to you, please help me take these items back to New Zealand. Remember to say: No-unless you can be sure that these items do not contain drugs or other contraband, the safest thing is not to carry luggage or parcels for others.

If someone says to you: There will be no problem, New Zealand is a place where drugs are legal. Don't believe this nonsense-almost all advanced countries have banned drugs. If you blindly believe that New Zealand is a place where drugs are legalized, you will face long-term imprisonment and lose your freedom!

New Zealand bans exports.

This includes drugs, obscenity, guns and weapons, antiques and wildlife.

Departure procedure

When the baggage of 1 arrives at the departure hall of the international airport, passengers should first go to the corresponding airline counter, entrust their luggage and take out their passports and air tickets in exchange for waiting for the plane certificate.

After checking passports and air tickets, the airline's ground crew will collect luggage, weigh it and issue machine certificates to passengers.

Then, the airline ground crew will explain to the passengers how to pay the departure airport fee and where to pay it. In case they forget, please ask the passengers.

After obtaining the boarding pass and retrieving the passport and air ticket, passengers can follow the instructions to find a place to pay the departure airport fee, and can pay the departure airport fee in cash or recognized credit. Adult international travelers need to pay an airport departure fee of S $25 when they leave New Zealand. There are different regulations on whether children under 12 are charged, but most airports are free.

Passengers please give their boarding pass and payment to the cashier. The cashier will stamp the paid departure airport fee on the boarding pass and then return the boarding pass to the passengers.

Passengers can go to the restricted area at any time after receiving the boarding pass with the departure airport fee. Passengers are requested to show their boarding passes to the staff of the Civil Aviation Administration of the airport for inspection and confirmation of the stamp of airport fees.

Passengers must first pass through the metal detector set by the airport security team and put their carry-on luggage on the conveyor belt so that the X-ray machine can check their luggage.

If there are no weapons or explosives on passengers and luggage, they can safely get their luggage back at the other end of the conveyor belt through the metal detector.

Finally, passengers must pass through the exit counter controlled by New Zealand Customs. Please give your passport and the completed exit card to the customs officer.

After the customs officer stamps the passport and takes away the exit card, he returns the passport to the passenger.

10 passengers pass through the customs exit control counter, and the entire exit formalities are completed. Then find a suitable waiting position in the departure restricted area and wait for boarding and departure.