Declaring extra cigarettes when entering the EU

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400 cheap cigarettes from Home for personal use and declare it to CGD [French] customs, will they automatically slap a fine or let me through ?

You do not pay a fine if you delare items at customs that exceed the duty-free amounts.

When entering the EU the duty-free amount for cigarettes (or a combination of cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars and smoking tobacco) is 200 cigarettes (1 carton).

For the other 200 cigarettes, which you must declare, you must pay Excise Duty and VAT which differs from country to country.

An unofficial overview, dated 2022-05-31, can be seen here:

Cigarette Taxes in the EU 2022 European Cigarette and Tobacco Tax Map
- assume that the shown values can change at any time!

For France, it presently shows for 20 cigarettes €8.57 Total Tax:

€6.88 Excise Duty
€1.69 VAT

That would then be €85.70 for 200 cigarettes.

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