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St. Croix,
USVI Duty Free Allowances - US Virgin Islands
$1,600.00 Per Person
Tax Exemption:
U.S. citizens, including children, can go
shopping and return with up to
$1,600.00 worth of duty-free merchandise every 30 days from
St. Croix, USVI.
Click here for more information from the U.S Customs and
Border Protection website.
The duty free allowance from elsewhere in the Caribbean
is only $800.00.
 Alcoholic
Beverages:
U.S. residents 21 years of
age and older can return to the mainland with four litres
of liquor, duty free. Add a 5th litre duty free if it is
a product made in the U.S. Virgin Islands (Captain
Morgan and Cruzan Rum)! Compare this to the one-litre-per-person
duty free limit outside the U.S. territory. Please note:
Some airlines will allow you to check-on a box of liquor
without an additional baggage fee. Please check directly
with your airline for up to date information.
If you return directly or
indirectly from a U.S. insular possession (U.S. Virgin Islands,
American Samoa, or Guam), you are allowed a $1,600 duty-free
exemption.
As long as the amount does not exceed what that state considers
a personal quantity*, Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
will allow you to enter the U.S. with up to five liters
of alcohol duty-free as part of your $1,600 exemption -
as long as at least four liters were purchased in the insular
possession, and at least one of them is a product of that
insular possession. Additional bottles will be subject to
a flat duty rate of 1.5% and subject to Internal Revenue
Service taxes.
Click here for more information from the U.S Customs and
Border Protection website.
Tobacco Products:
U.S. citizens age 21 or older
are allowed up to 100 cigars (not of Cuban origin) and up
to 5 cartons, or 1,000 cigarettes duty free, per person,
if purchased in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Click here for more information from the U.S Customs and
Border Protection website.
Merchandise Shipped to the United States:
A U.S. resident may ship
goods purchased in St. Croix, U.S Virgin Islands (“unaccompanied
purchases”) to the United States. Unaccompanied purchases
are goods you bought on a trip that are being shipped to
yourself in the United States. In this instance you
may declare: Up to $1,600 worth duty free per person under
your personal exemption if the merchandise is purchased
in the USVI. An additional $1,000 worth of goods may be
mailed dutiable at a flat rate of 1.5% percent.
Baci Duty Free
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