Controlled Goods

Below is a list of controlled goods that require prior authorization—such as advance notification, licenses, or certificate approvals—from the relevant Competent Authorities (CAs) before being imported into Singapore. Visit Singapore Customs Website for the most up-to-date list.

Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore

• Animals, birds and products thereof
• Fishes and fishery products (including fin fish, crustaceans and molluscs)
• Food items (excluding fresh/chilled vegetables and fruits)
• Fruits (fresh/chilled)
• Ginseng roots
• Meat and meat products of animals and birds
• Medicaments, veterinary
• Milk powder - skimmed (coloured for animal feed)
• Organic fertilizer
• Plants with/without soil, flowers and seeds
• Tableware and kitchenware of porcelain, china or lead crystal
• Timber and wood (CITES listed)
• Vegetables (fresh/chilled)

Biosafety Branch, Ministry of Health

• Human pathogens

Building and Construction Authority

• Sand & granite (essential construction materials)

Central Narcotics Bureau

• Poppy seeds (kaskas)
• Precursor chemicals

Enterprise Singapore

• Rice (excluding rice bran)

Health Sciences Authority

• Chinese Proprietary Medicines
• Controlled drugs and psychotropic substances
• Medical devices
• Oral dental gums
• Raw materials, laboratory reagents, reference standards and veterinary medicines containing controlled drugs, psychotropic substances and poisons
• Therapeutic products

Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore

• Cartridges/cassettes/audio compact diskettes - pre-recorded
• Films, cinema/video/laser discs
• Gramophone records
• Publications
• Tapes, pre-recorded
• Toy walkie-talkie

Pollution Control Department, National Environment Agency

• Articles of asbestos
• Batteries (primary), alkaline, zinc-carbon and mercury oxide
• Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
• Halons
• Pesticides
• Poisons and hazardous
• Surface-active agents, anionic
• Waste lead-acid batteries and waste batteries made with lead, cadmium or mercury

Radiation Protection and Nuclear Science Department, National Environment Agency

• Irradiating apparatus
• Radioactive materials

Singapore Civil Defence Force

• Diesel oil/fuel
• Flammable materials
• Petroleum

Singapore Customs

• Rough diamonds
• Mastering equipment and replication equipment for CD, CD-ROM, VCD, DVD, DVD-ROM

National Authority, Chemical Weapons Convention (NA, CWC), Singapore Customs

• Toxic chemicals and precursors

Police Licensing & Regulatory Department, Singapore Police Force

• Fruit/jackpot machines

Police Licensing & Regulatory Department (Arms & Explosives), Singapore Police Force

• Arms & explosives
• Articles of clothing intended as protection against attack, including bullet-proof vests
• Handcuffs
• Helmets (Steel)
• Nitro-cellulose
• Toy guns/pistols/revolver

Police Licensing & Regulatory Department (Public Entertainment & Liquor), Singapore Police Force

• Amusement machines, coin or disc-operated, including pin-tables, shooting galleries & cinematograph machines

You can also visit Singapore Customs HS/CA Product Code website to check if the goods are regulated by providing their description, Harmonised System (HS) code, or CA product code. If the item falls under control, the relevant CA's name will appear alongside its HS code. For details on licensing requirements, contact the respective CAs directly.