Maldives Custom And Duty Guide For Tourists

The restrictions are many. No alcoholic beverage (unless you have an official license), no pork products, no pornographic material may be imported. Dogs and other pets may be brought in only with an import permit and a vet’s certificate.
Drugs are strictly prohibited. The lightest sentence is life-imprisonment.
You may import cigarettes, cigars and tobacco and gifts in limited amounts.
Export restrictions are geared mainly for environmental protection. Turtle shell, black coral, eel, puffer fish, parrotfish, skate and ray, big-eyed scads under 15cm, bait fish used for tuna fishing, dolphin, whale, lobster, stony coral, triton shell, troches shell and pearl oyster.