Tunisia

Tunisia Customs publishes specific procedures for arrival, temporary stay and departure declarations for foreign pleasure craft. Foreign yachts generally must clear at ports with a Customs office. This summary is based only on Customs’ published pleasure-navigation rules; confirm current implementation before departure.

Tunisia Customs says foreign pleasure craft must enter a port with a Customs office to complete arrival formalities and publishes a list of pleasure ports. The list and local acceptance may change; confirm with Customs at the intended port before arrival.

Tunisia Customs provides an online form/service for pleasure-navigation arrival declarations. After submitting online, the master must still present the declaration at a pleasure port and complete the formalities required by Customs. The service does not specify a uniform number of hours before arrival.

Tunisia Customs’ pleasure-navigation declaration requests details of people aboard, but the Customs material does not fully explain visas, entry eligibility or permitted stay by nationality. Check separately with Tunisian Immigration/consular authorities for each crew member.

Tunisia Customs’ temporary importation/suspension-of-duties procedure has eligibility limits. The page says temporary admission of a foreign private yacht applies to individuals whose main residence is outside the Tunisian customs territory and who meet the non-resident conditions; the yacht must be for the individual’s private use and may not be used for local commercial operations, rental or transfer under this procedure. The page describes a 180-day permit and an extension under specified conditions; this is not an unconditional stay right for every vessel. The declaration includes vessel, owner/user, voyage, people and onboard-stores information.

Official source: Tunisian Customs: Pleasure Craft Navigation

Tunisia Customs’ pet-entry information requires accompanying pets to have a health certificate issued by the official veterinary authority in the country of origin or by the border authority, and a health record including rabies vaccination. Customs also says wild animals and their parts, and CITES-protected animals and plants, require prescribed documentation or special permits. Available information concerns travellers generally and does not explain how food, pets or plants kept aboard but not landed are treated. Confirm with the destination port veterinary/plant-quarantine service before departure.

Tunisia’s pleasure-craft arrival declaration includes an inventory of onboard stores. The Customs form requires relevant goods to be declared, but the dedicated page does not establish specific permits or quantity limits for firearms, medicines, food and other categories. Check with Tunisia Customs before carrying controlled items.

Arrival procedures

Tunisia Customs says foreign yachts arriving from abroad must, except in confirmed force-majeure circumstances, enter a port with a Customs office and submit an arrival declaration, yacht manifest and relevant yacht navigation permit. During the permit’s validity, calling at other Tunisian ports may not require repeating the same Customs formalities, according to the Customs page. On departure, submit the departure declaration and required information on people and stores to Customs at the port of departure.

Official source: Tunisian Customs: Pleasure Craft Navigation

Before leaving, Tunisia Customs requires foreign pleasure craft to submit a departure declaration to Customs at the departure port and provide the passenger list, onboard-stores inventory and navigation permit issued on arrival. The official page lists no uniform departure-clearance fee; confirm port, berth and agent charges separately.