The maximum number of cigarette cartridges you can bring from Moldova, Bulgaria or Turkey
Many Romanians living on the border with Moldova, Bulgaria or Turkey choose to go to these countries to use cigarettes, alcohol or food.
How many cigarettes can Romanians carry from countries such as Moldova, Bulgaria or Turkey
The reason is that in these countries, tobacco products, alcohol or food are cheaper than in Romania. The practice of crossing the border for shopping is not at all foreign to citizens who live close to the border with other countries where products are cheaper.
For example, Romanians living near the border with Bessarabia often go shopping. Staple foods are much cheaper than ours, as are cigarettes or alcohol.
Romanians going to Turkey can return home with a maximum of 3 packs of cigarettes. If they return from Bulgaria or Moldova, they can have two books on them.
Romania has 2,000 km of border with non-EU countries, on whose territory the price of tobacco can be up to 3-4 times lower.
How many cigarettes can you take when you leave the country
If we talk about going out of the country, Romanians can take with them 1 cartridge of countries outside the EU, while in the countries of the European Union they can carry a maximum of 40 packs of cigarettes.
“Every year, through the points of crossing the Romanian border over 60 million people pass. Some of them do not know, for example, that in the countries of the European Union you can carry a maximum of 40 packs of cigarettes. In countries outside the Union, a maximum of 10 packages. Also, entering the country you can have 40 packs of cigarettes on you. If you enter from the community space or 2 packages if you enter from the non-community space.
Through the campaign started today, we continue the program started in 2017. We bring to the attention of the general public the necessary information on the legal provisions regarding the permitted quantity of tobacco products while traveling.
The Stop Smuggling platform is a permanent source of informing consumers about the consequences of smuggling, but also about the results of the authorities in combating this phenomenon “, said last year, Ileana Dumitru, Director of Legal & External Affairs at British American Tobacco.