Customs on Amazon parcels to Lithuania: the post-2026 picture
Without a local Amazon storefront, Lithuanian shoppers order from Amazon.de and its siblings — and dispatch origin decides everything. EU-warehouse orders travel like domestic post, customs-free. Marketplace sellers shipping from outside the EU create imports, and those have owed €3 per distinct HS6 tariff line since 1 July 2026, alongside Lithuanian VAT at 21% collected at checkout.
Direct imports to Lithuania typically arrive with DPD or DHL, whose clearance handling runs in the €5–€20 range — postal arrivals via Lietuvos paštas sit lower at €0–€8. Couriers handle the declaration themselves and invoice charges before or at delivery, so the Lithuanian self-service declaration step familiar from Chinese marketplaces rarely appears with Amazon imports.
The engine's worked example below is a typical family order: toys in duplicate plus one accessory, shipped once, dutiable on two lines.
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Worked example
Two €13.99 toys and a €7.49 phone accessory shipped from outside the EU for €4.99: €35.47 of goods, €4.99 carriage. The toys share one HS6 heading, the accessory adds another — 2 tariff lines, so duty of 2 × €3 = €6 on three items. Checkout already covered €8.50 of VAT at 21%.
The courier's bill on delivery is €11–€26, joining €6 of duty with handling inside €5–€20; the order lands at €59.96–€74.96 all told.
Numbers for your own order? Use the calculator above — it applies the same rules to your prices.
Example declaration
- Toy ×2€27.98
- Phone accessory €7.49
- Itemspaid at checkout€35.47
- Shippingpaid at checkout€4.99
- Customs duty€6.00
€3.00 × 2 tariff lines = €6.00
- VAT (21%)paid at checkout€8.50
21% × €40.46 (goods + shipping) = €8.50
- Carrier fee€5.00 – €20.00
Due at delivery: €11.00 – €26.00
Frequently asked questions
- Ar Amazon siuntos į Lietuvą apmokestinamos muitu?
- It depends on the dispatch point. Orders from Amazon's EU fulfilment centres involve no customs. Marketplace sellers shipping from outside the EU create imports that owe €3 per distinct HS6 tariff line under the July 2026 rules, with Lithuanian VAT at 21% collected at checkout. The courier — usually DPD or DHL — collects the duty plus handling of typically €5–€20.
- Is the Amazon import duty charged per box or per product type?
- Per product type — formally, per distinct HS6 tariff line in the consignment. Two identical toys in a parcel form one line and owe one €3; add a phone accessory and a second line appears with a second €3. The box count is irrelevant: one consignment across three boxes owes its line-based duty once, not three times.
- What does a non-IOSS Amazon import to Lithuania pay?
- It bypasses the flat duty and takes the standard route: EU tariff by HS code through an H7 declaration, Lithuanian import VAT at 21% on goods plus shipping plus duty, and the carrier's advancement fee — €0–€8 for postal delivery, €5–€20 for couriers. Amazon's marketplace VAT collection makes this uncommon, but some third-party dispatches fall outside it.
- Which is cheaper for Lithuania: Amazon EU stock or a direct import?
- EU stock wins on charges every time — it carries no duty, no border VAT step and no clearance fee, since VAT at 21% is simply in the price. A direct import adds €3 per tariff line and courier handling of typically €5–€20 to its checkout total. Direct imports only come out ahead when their base price undercuts EU stock by more than those charges combined.
- Will Amazon imports to Lithuania cost more after 2028?
- Most likely. The flat per-line duty ends on July 1, 2028, and low-value imports then pay the EU's ordinary tariff rates via the Customs Data Hub — rates that exceed today's flat duty for most consumer goods, toys and kitchenware included. The proposed EU-wide handling fee on small parcels, if adopted, would add further cost. EU-fulfilled orders remain unaffected either way.