Bringing Your Belongings into Paraguay
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Suriname on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Suriname to Paraguay · Bringing your belongings
Two separate regimes, and only one of them is fully published. The traveller's baggage regime exempts clothing and personal objects outright and gives a further allowance of US$ 500 arriving by air or river and US$ 300 at a land border; motor vehicles of every kind are excluded from it and can enter only under temporary admission, which requires proving residence in another country. The migration law separately gives admitted residents the right to bring in personal effects, family household goods and one family means of transport, with the import duties to be set by the customs authority - and we did not find those duties published.
At a glance
- Duty-free allowance, air or river arrival
- US$ 500 beyond personal effects
- Duty-free allowance, land border
- US$ 300 beyond personal effects
- Personal effects
- Exempt outright
Clothing, personal objects, books, personal jewellery, cameras, portable instruments, phones, personal computers, pushchairs, wheelchairs, personal sports equipment
- Gifts
- Up to US$ 500 in total
- Cash declaration threshold
- US$ 10,000
There is no limit on the amount carried; above this figure it must be declared electronically
- Vehicles in the baggage regime
- Excluded
Cars, motorcycles, motor bicycles, boat engines, jet skis, caravans and aircraft; they may enter under temporary admission if the traveller proves residence abroad
- Duties on a resident's household goods and family vehicle
- Set by the customs authority; not found published
Requirements
- Declaring, by the red channel, any goods subject to the duty to declare
- Declaring cash or bearer instruments over US$ 10,000 in the electronic traveller declaration system
- Keeping to the baggage definition - goods for personal use or as gifts, in quantities that do not suggest commercial purpose
- For a vehicle: using temporary admission and proving residence in another country, since vehicles are outside the baggage regime
- For a resident bringing household goods and a family vehicle: the import duties set by the customs authority
In detail
The traveller's allowance is generous about what you wear and strict about what you drive
Clothing, personal objects, books, personal jewellery, cameras, portable instruments, phones, personal computers, pushchairs, wheelchairs and personal sports equipment come in exempt with no value attached. Beyond that there is US$ 500 by air or river and US$ 300 overland. Vehicles of every description are simply outside the regime, and the only way in for them is temporary admission, which the customs authority conditions on proving residence in another country.
The resident's right the law gives and does not price
Article 13 of the migration law gives admitted residents the right to bring in personal effects, family household goods and one family means of transport, and hands the import duties to the customs authority to set. We looked for that tariff and did not find it: the customs authority's published traveller material covers baggage rather than an immigrant's household removal, and we found no separate menaje de casa regime on the pages we read. Until that instrument is read, the honest statement is that the right exists and the cost is unknown.
Cash: no ceiling, but a declaration
Paraguay sets no limit on the cash you may carry in or out. Above US$ 10,000, or the equivalent in other currencies or in bearer instruments, the electronic traveller declaration has to be filed. It can be completed before travelling. The obligation comes from the anti-money-laundering law rather than from customs tariffs, and failing it is dealt with as an offence rather than as an unpaid duty.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Suriname
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
«Los inmigrantes extranjeros que sean admitidos como residentes podrán ingresar al país sus bienes personales, los de su familia, enseres del hogar y un medio de transporte familiar, cu-»Our translation - not official
Foreign immigrants admitted as residents may bring into the country their personal effects, those of their family, household goods and one family means of transport...
The sentence continues across a line break in the published PDF: yos aranceles de importación deberán ser establecidos por la Dirección Nacional de Aduanas - whose import duties are to be set by the National Customs Directorate. The right is in the law; the price is delegated, and we did not find the delegated instrument.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The migration directorate. Administers residency under Ley 6984/2022 and issues its own resolutions under arts. 78, 79 and 82. Publishes the law as a PDF booklet, per-route requirement pages, the migration fee schedule and a resolutions index.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the gazette: it reproduces Ley 6984 but did not make it. Its requirement pages restate the law and sometimes diverge from it - art. 100's fee figures against the schedule in force is the live example, and the schedule wins. Cannot be cited for the SUACE investor threshold, which is the industry ministry's, nor for the tax consequences of a migration status. The law booklet is a justified-column PDF, so extracted text breaks words across lines.
We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source
«el viajero que ingrese al territorio aduanero, por vía aérea y fluvial, tendrá una exención para otros bienes hasta el límite de USD 500 (quinientos dólares americanos) o su equivalente en moneda nacional. En los casos de frontera terrestre se fija una franquicia de USD 300 (trescientos dólares americanos)»Our translation - not official
a traveller entering the customs territory by air or river shall have an exemption for other goods up to a limit of USD 500 (five hundred US dollars) or its equivalent in national currency. For land borders a franchise of USD 300 (three hundred US dollars) is fixed
The allowance is on top of the personal effects listed separately as exempt, and the figure depends on how you arrive. Arriving overland from Argentina or Brazil is worth US$ 200 less than flying in.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The merged tax and customs authority. Publishes Ley 6380/2019 as HTML, implementing decrees as scanned PDFs, and a large taxpayer FAQ.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for migration status: its residence FAQ still defines residency by reference to Ley 978/96, repealed in 2022. It is authoritative on the tax consequences of a status, not on what the status is. Nothing on the site carries a revision date, so currency cannot be established from the page. Text extracted from its scanned decree PDFs loses accents and should not be quoted.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
«Quedan excluidos del presente régimen los automotores en general, las motocicletas, motonetas, bicicletas a motor, motores para embarcaciones, motos acuáticas, y similares; casas rodantes, aeronaves.»Our translation - not official
Excluded from this regime are motor vehicles in general, motorcycles, scooters, motorised bicycles, boat engines, jet skis and the like; caravans and aircraft.
The next sentence says these goods may enter under the Temporary Admission regime provided the traveller proves residence in another country - which is precisely what someone moving to Paraguay is about to stop being able to prove.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The merged tax and customs authority. Publishes Ley 6380/2019 as HTML, implementing decrees as scanned PDFs, and a large taxpayer FAQ.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for migration status: its residence FAQ still defines residency by reference to Ley 978/96, repealed in 2022. It is authoritative on the tax consequences of a status, not on what the status is. Nothing on the site carries a revision date, so currency cannot be established from the page. Text extracted from its scanned decree PDFs loses accents and should not be quoted.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
«Actualmente, en la república del Paraguay no hay un límite de dinero en efectivo o instrumentos negociables al portador para su ingreso o egreso, no bstante, si está ingresando o saliendo del país con más de U$D 10.000 (Diez mil dólares americanos)»Our translation - not official
At present, in the Republic of Paraguay there is no limit on cash or bearer negotiable instruments for entry or exit; however, if you are entering or leaving the country with more than USD 10,000 (ten thousand US dollars)
The sentence continues that the sum must be declared in the electronic customs traveller declaration system under Ley N° 1.015/97. No limit and no declaration are different things, and the page states both. The publisher's text reads no bstante for no obstante and is kept as printed.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The merged tax and customs authority. Publishes Ley 6380/2019 as HTML, implementing decrees as scanned PDFs, and a large taxpayer FAQ.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for migration status: its residence FAQ still defines residency by reference to Ley 978/96, repealed in 2022. It is authoritative on the tax consequences of a status, not on what the status is. Nothing on the site carries a revision date, so currency cannot be established from the page. Text extracted from its scanned decree PDFs loses accents and should not be quoted.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
Practical notes
We searched the customs side of the revenue authority for an immigrant household-goods regime and for the tariff article 13 delegates, and found neither. That is a gap to close before anyone plans a container shipment, and naming it is more useful than guessing the rate.
The customs authority's published material is now issued under the Dirección Nacional de Ingresos Tributarios, which absorbed the former customs and tax administrations; older references to the Dirección Nacional de Aduanas, including the one in article 13 of the migration law, point at the same function.
The baggage rules cite the customs code, Ley N° 2.422/04, and its regulation, Decreto N° 4.672/05. We did not read either.
- administersPreguntas Frecuentes - Dirección Nacional de Ingresos Tributarios
Dirección Nacional de Ingresos Tributarios (Paraguay)
About this source
The merged tax and customs authority. Publishes Ley 6380/2019 as HTML, implementing decrees as scanned PDFs, and a large taxpayer FAQ.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for migration status: its residence FAQ still defines residency by reference to Ley 978/96, repealed in 2022. It is authoritative on the tax consequences of a status, not on what the status is. Nothing on the site carries a revision date, so currency cannot be established from the page. Text extracted from its scanned decree PDFs loses accents and should not be quoted.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
- administersLey N° 6.984 de Migraciones (texto publicado por la Dirección Nacional de Migraciones)
Dirección Nacional de Migraciones (Paraguay)
About this source
The migration directorate. Administers residency under Ley 6984/2022 and issues its own resolutions under arts. 78, 79 and 82. Publishes the law as a PDF booklet, per-route requirement pages, the migration fee schedule and a resolutions index.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the gazette: it reproduces Ley 6984 but did not make it. Its requirement pages restate the law and sometimes diverge from it - art. 100's fee figures against the schedule in force is the live example, and the schedule wins. Cannot be cited for the SUACE investor threshold, which is the industry ministry's, nor for the tax consequences of a migration status. The law booklet is a justified-column PDF, so extracted text breaks words across lines.
We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source