Bringing nicotine e-liquids to Australia

2/25/2019 5:57:04 AM

The information here was useful, but have discovered an up-to-date (Feb 2019) guide that covers something called the Travellers Exemption. The exemption is specifically written for people like us who are planning to bring a nicotine vape with them to Australia.

Basically visitors to Australia can bring with them nicotine e-liquids if the the following requirements are met –

Traveller’s exemption – requirements

  1. The medicine or device must be for your use, or for a passenger in your care
  2. You cannot sell or supply the products to another person
  3. Keep the product in original packaging with dispensing labels (if possible)
  4. Carry the prescription or written authorisation showing that it is for your use, or for a person in your care
  5. Carry no more than three months supply at the maximum dose
  6. Take any remaining medicines or devices with you when you leave Australia
  7. Comply with requests and directions from customs officers.

https://www.tga.gov.au/travellers-visitors

The full guide for travelling to Australia with nicotine e-liquids is here – https://www.ozvapour.com/flying-with-vapes-nicotine-e-liquids-australia/

12/12/2017 9:32:23 AM

According to the Therapeutic Goods Administration:

Under the Personal Importation Scheme you may import a 3 month supply at the one time (at the maximum dose recommended by the manufacturer) of unapproved therapeutic goods into Australia without any approval required by the TGA provided that:

…

  • if the goods are medicines in Schedule 4 or 8 of the Poisons Standard a prescription from an Australian-registered medical practitioner is held for the medicine.

And according to the Poisons Standard, Nicotine is indeed a Schedule 4 poison:

NICOTINE in preparations for human therapeutic use except for use as an aid in withdrawal from tobacco smoking in preparations for oromucosal or transdermal use.

Oromucosal use includes nicotine chewing gums and transdermal use includes nicotine patches, so e-liquids are out of luck. Therefore the answer is that legally speaking you must indeed obtain a prescription from an Australian doctor if you want to do things by the book. It sounds ridiculous for a tourist, but Australia is quite an insane country when it comes to restrictions of personal imports, so you shouldn’t be surprised they’re not particularly accommodating.

What I would personally do is import the e-liquid and declare it at the airport — chances are no one would bother taking them away. If not, you can always buy regular cigarettes or use other forms of nicotine consumption.

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