Bringing Your Belongings to Grenada
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Jamaica on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
91 exceptions recorded across 34 countries · none match Jamaica to Grenada · Bringing your belongings
Everything you bring must be declared, and the penalty for not declaring is the greater of EC$10,000 and three times the value. For small quantities there is a flat rate: non-commercial goods falling within three or more tariff headings and worth no more than EC$270 are charged thirty per cent instead of the tariff, with alcohol and tobacco carved out. Above that the Common External Tariff applies - and that is where the record stops, because Grenada's tariff is not published. The Customs Duties Act incorporates the Common External Tariff of the Caribbean Common Market, including its conditional duty exemptions, by reference and prints none of it. We could not reach the document, so we state no rate and no settler's concession.
At a glance
- Flat rate threshold
- EC$270
Section 10(1) of the Customs Duties Act, for non-commercial goods falling within three or more different tariff headings in accompanied baggage or imported by air, sea or parcel post.
- Flat rate
- 30 per cent
Section 10(1), or such other rate as the Minister may prescribe by regulation. It is charged instead of the Second Schedule rates, not on top of them.
- Goods outside the flat rate
- Wine, vermouth and spirits, and crew members' goods
Section 10(2) and the Fourth Schedule. Their value is also excluded when working out whether the EC$270 ceiling has been passed.
- Penalty for not declaring
- EC$10,000 or three times the value, whichever is greater
Section 88(3) of the Customs (Control and Management) Act, and section 88(4) makes undeclared dutiable goods liable to forfeiture as well.
- Passengers' accompanied baggage and the entry requirement
- Exempt
Section 46(3) of the Customs (Control and Management) Act exempts accompanied baggage from the requirement to deliver an entry, which is why a traveller fills in a declaration rather than a customs entry.
- Settler's or returning national's concession
- Not found
The conditional duty exemptions are part of the Common External Tariff, which the Customs Duties Act incorporates by reference and does not print. Nothing on this record states such a concession exists or does not.
Requirements
- Declare, at the place and in the manner the Comptroller directs, anything in your baggage obtained outside Grenada
- Answer the proper officer's questions and produce the baggage for examination if required
- Pay the flat rate of thirty per cent where the goods are non-commercial, fall within three or more tariff headings and are worth no more than EC$270 in total
- Otherwise pay duty under the Common External Tariff, plus the customs service charge and value added tax, none of which we have read
In detail
Declare first, argue later
Section 88 of the Customs (Control and Management) Act puts the obligation on the traveller: declare anything in your baggage obtained outside Grenada, answer the officer's questions, and produce the baggage if asked. Failing to declare is an offence punishable by the greater of ten thousand dollars and three times the value of the thing, and the thing itself is liable to forfeiture. The threshold for the offence is failure to declare, not failure to pay, so declaring something that turns out to be free of duty costs nothing and not declaring something that turns out to be free of duty is still an offence.
The flat rate, and what it is not
Section 10 of the Customs Duties Act is the nearest thing Grenada has to a traveller's allowance, and it is not an allowance. Where non-commercial goods fall within three or more different tariff headings and are worth no more than EC$270 in total, duty is charged at a flat thirty per cent instead of at tariff rates. Nothing is free. The three-heading condition means a single expensive item never qualifies, and nor do three of the same thing. Wine, vermouth and spirits are excluded from the flat rate and from the EC$270 calculation, which cuts both ways: they are charged at tariff but they do not consume the threshold.
The tariff is not published
The Second Schedule to the Customs Duties Act consists of one sentence: the Common External Tariff of the Caribbean Common Market including Conditional Duty Exemptions. That is where every rate lives, and it is also where any concession for the household effects of a settler or a returning national would live, because the List of Conditional Duty Exemptions is the regional instrument that carries such things. The law portal publishes no copy and the Customs and Excise Division's own site did not answer when we tried it. We can tell a reader what the declaration duty is and what the flat rate is, and we cannot tell them what duty they will pay on a container of furniture. That is a gap in the published law rather than a gap in our reading, and it is worth saying which.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Jamaica
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«where the total value of the goods of a non-commercial character, falling within three or more different tariff headings, either contained in passenger’s accompanied baggage, or imported by air, sea or parcel post, does not exceed two hundred and seventy dollars, a flat rate of duty of customs of thirty per cent or such other rate as the Minister may by regulation prescribe, shall be charged in lieu of the rate of duty of customs prescribed in the Second Schedule.»Three conditions have to be met together: non-commercial, three or more tariff headings, and not more than EC$270 in total. Two items of the same kind do not qualify however cheap they are.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(a) the value of the goods specified in paragraph (b) of the Fourth Schedule;»Alcohol is left out of the EC$270 calculation as well as out of the flat rate, so a bottle of wine does not use up the allowance.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«The Common External Tariff of the Caribbean Common Market including Conditional Duty Exemptions.»One sentence. The whole tariff, and the conditional duty exemptions that would contain any household effects concession, are incorporated by reference and published nowhere on the law portal.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(1) Any person entering Grenada shall at such place and in such manner as the Comptroller may direct, declare any thing contained in his or her baggage or carried with him or her which—»The duty is to declare anything obtained outside Grenada, and anything dutiable obtained in Grenada without paying duty, unless an enactment exempts it.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(3) Any person failing to declare any baggage or thing as required under this section, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars or three times the value of the thing not declared or the baggage or thing not produced, as the case may be, whichever is the greater.»The greater of the two, so for anything worth more than about three thousand three hundred dollars the multiple bites rather than the ceiling.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(3) Passenger’s accompanied baggage is exempt from the requirements of this section.»The section is the one requiring an entry of imported goods. Baggage goes through the declaration route in section 88 instead.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«Antigua and Barbuda»The twelve CARICOM member states for the purposes of common market origin: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. Goods of common market origin are treated differently from goods from outside.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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Practical notes
No settler's, returning national's or household effects concession is stated on this record, in either direction. The conditional duty exemptions are incorporated by reference into the Second Schedule and are not published on the law portal; we did not reach the regional document and we do not claim that no concession exists.
Nothing on this record states a tariff rate, a customs service charge rate or a value added tax rate. The Customs Service Charge Act is Chapter 75D and the Value Added Tax Act is a separate statute; neither was read.
The Customs Act, Act 9 of 2015, appears on the law portal and we did not read it. Chapter 75 and Chapter 75A both carry the title Customs Act and the relationship between them, Chapter 75B and the 2015 Act is not stated anywhere we read. The provisions quoted here are from Chapter 75B, the Customs (Control and Management) Act.
The Customs and Excise Division's website returned a server error on every attempt, so nothing here comes from the administering agency. Allowances published by that Division may differ from the instruments, as they do in Belize.
The flat rate figure of EC$270 and the thirty per cent rate are both in section 10(1) as the Chapter prints it. Section 10(1) lets the Minister prescribe another rate by regulation and section 11 lets him amend the Fourth Schedule; we found no instrument doing either.
- consolidatesCustoms Duties Act, Chapter 75C, Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada 2010
Laws of Grenada · consolidated to 2010
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- consolidatesCustoms (Control and Management) Act, Chapter 75B, Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada 2010
Laws of Grenada · consolidated to 2010
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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