Can I bring Tea and Coffee to Germany?

⚠️From a non-EU country, a special territory (such as the Canary Islands) or Heligoland: tea and coffee within the duty-free allowance that you carry in your personal luggage as an occasional, non-commercial import for your personal or household use or as a gift need no separate verbal or written declaration; using the green exit at airports or ports, or passing a customs office without separate exits, counts as a customs declaration by conduct. The allowance is €300; €430 for air/sea travellers (not for passengers on inland waterway vessels or private, non-commercial aircraft or vessels, or travellers crossing Lake Constance from Switzerland); €175 under 15; special restrictions apply to residents of border municipalities and border commuters. If your goods exceed the allowance, you must declare them verbally at customs and pay import duties. Within the EU (except from special tax and customs territories): coffee released for free circulation where you bought it (e.g. bought tax-paid in an ordinary shop), transported by yourself and for your own use, needs no customs formalities. Regardless of the duty-free allowance: teas under special protective measures above the small personal-luggage quantities (2 kg; 5 kg fresh produce) require specific certificates and official inspection, and plants, plant parts, fruits or seeds are not covered by that small-quantity exemption and must meet phytosanitary rules (e.g. a phytosanitary certificate).

Form needed: No separate verbal or written declaration for duty-free personal luggage (the green exit counts as a declaration by conduct); verbal customs declaration if the allowance is exceeded; regardless of the allowance, specific certificates and official inspection for teas under special protective measures above small personal quantities, and phytosanitary requirements (e.g. a phytosanitary certificate) for plants, plant parts, fruits or seeds