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If you're an Antiguan or Barbudan coming home to live after years abroad, you can bring your used household and personal effects in free of duty and ABST. We connect you with one vetted partner who ships your home and works with a local broker on the concession. It's free to ask.
✅ The quick answer — We connect you with one vetted partner who ships your home and handles the concession paperwork. Free.
🏠 What's duty-free — Used household and personal effects owned and used for a year or more, not for resale.
📋 What you need — The concession application form, your passport and proof you've lived abroad.
🚚 Vehicles — A returning national can usually bring in one vehicle under concession; conditions apply.
📍 Where it clears — Deep Water Harbour, St John's, with a broker filing in ASYCUDA World.
The returning-nationals concession is for citizens of Antigua and Barbuda who have lived abroad for a long stretch, generally ten years or more, and are coming home to settle permanently. Students who have studied abroad for three years or more also qualify for concessions on their effects. The aim is simple: let people bring the home they built overseas back with them without paying import taxes on used belongings. The Customs and Excise Division confirms eligibility, and your vetted partner and a local broker guide you through it.
Used household and personal effects come in free of duty and ABST, as long as you've owned and used them for at least a year and they're not for resale. That covers furniture, appliances, kitchenware, clothing, books, tools of your trade and the everyday contents of a home. Professional apparatus and workmen's tools are included on the same basis.
What still attracts charges: brand-new items, anything bought on the trip home and shipped as cargo, and goods owned for under a year. A returning national can usually also bring in one vehicle under concession, with its own conditions on ownership and value, which a broker explains. Older R12 and R22 refrigerant gases are banned, so an old fridge or air-conditioner needs checking first.
You apply for the duty-free concession using the returning-nationals application form, which you can download from the government website, supported by your passport, proof that you've lived abroad for the qualifying period and an inventory of what you're shipping. A licensed broker files the customs entry in ASYCUDA World using the Single Administrative Document, and the goods clear at Deep Water Harbour. Your vetted partner coordinates with the broker so the shipping and the concession line up, and your belongings aren't sitting at the port waiting on a form.
Most returning nationals ship a shared or full container, depending on how much they're bringing. Your partner packs and protects everything in the UK and clears it on arrival.
Shared or full 20ft and 40ft for part loads or a whole home.
A complete, door-to-door home move with packing and delivery.
What a move costs, and how the concession saves you money.
Every area and service for moves to the island.
Moving home usually means moving money too, from settling a UK home to setting up on the island. For years we've connected customers with trusted partners who handle any currency, so you get a fair rate without the hassle. It's offered through our partners, with no hidden fees.
Coming home is a big move, and the concession paperwork matters. We connect you with one partner experienced in returning-national shipments to Antigua and Barbuda, working with a local broker who knows the Customs and Excise process. For a full household move, partners hold FIDI FAIM accreditation, the global benchmark for international movers, with BAR Overseas the UK marker.
International Removals Companies isn't a shipper itself; we pass your enquiry to one vetted partner who does the work, free since November 2010, with more than 850,000 enquiries connected since. DATACONTEXT (UK) LTD, company 07425576, ICO ZB022743, Norman House, Saint Saviours Estate, Abbey Street, London, SE1 3DH. Working Member of AGM Group since 2010.
Tell us what you're bringing and roughly when, and one vetted partner comes back with a price, a sailing schedule and how the concession applies to you. No cost, no obligation.
Get my free quoteYour partner confirms every price, transit time, insurance and customs point before you book.
International Removals Companies is the official enquiry service for three FIDI FAIM and BAR Overseas certified international moving companies in AGM Group, members of IAM, EUROMOVERS and FEDEMAC. It's a free route-matching service, not a removal company, a man with a van or a house clearance service.
Use this page to send your Antigua and Barbuda removal enquiry, then speak directly with the partner mover we connect you with before booking.