Togo

Article 2 of Arrêté 118/MEF/OTR/CG/CDDI (signed Lomé, 8 June 2020) lists baggage accompanying travellers as one class eligible for simplified definitive customs declarations, which customs may authorise; the same article's CFA 250,000 ceiling attaches only to a different class, goods in frontier traffic, and no value ceiling is stated for baggage. Article 5 allows the simplified and global declarations to be drawn up by the traveller personally or by approved customs brokers (commissionnaires en douane agréés). Article 3's minimum particulars still include the rate and amount of entry duties, so this is a clearance simplification, not an exemption from declaration or duties. The arrêté prescribes no form medium and no fee.

Togo is named among the eight UMOA member states, so these BCEAO instructions apply in Togo. Physical cash and bearer negotiable instruments transported from one member state to another must be declared to the Customs administration at the entry or exit point from CFA 10,000,000 (Instruction 002-03-2025, signed 18 March 2025 and in force on signature). When entering from or leaving for a third state, the same transport must be declared from CFA 5,000,000 (Instruction 231/07/2024, signed 16 July 2024 and in force on signature, expressly repealing Instruction 008-09-2017). Both thresholds are route-based comparators ('le seuil à partir duquel'), stated in CFA, with no aggregation rule in either text. This is a distinct legal family from the resident/non-resident traveller foreign-currency declaration under Instruction 06/07/2025/RFE, with a different population, direction and comparators, and no common Togo form may be assumed between the two. Neither instruction prescribes a form medium or a fee.

Togo is named among the eight UMOA member states, so Instruction 06/07/2025/RFE (issued under Règlement 06/2024/CM/UEMOA of 20 December 2024; effective 1 August 2025, repealing the 2011 traveller-allocation instruction) applies in Togo. Its traveller declaration duties are: residents travelling to non-UEMOA states declare the foreign-currency cash they carry when its CFA countervalue exceeds CFA 3,000,000 (art. 4); non-residents declare in writing, on the model annexed to the instruction, at entry and at exit, foreign-currency cash payment means whose CFA countervalue exceeds CFA 500,000 (art. 7). A declaration under this procedure does not by itself authorise carrying foreign banknotes without limit: export of foreign banknotes above the CFA 500,000 ceiling remains subject to separate conditions (art. 8), which are not themselves a filing duty and are recorded only as background in the report. Amounts are measured as CFA countervalue; 'excède' is strictly above. This is a distinct legal family from the route-based declaration of physical cash and bearer negotiable instruments under Instructions 002-03-2025 and 231/07/2024, with a different population, direction and comparators, and no common Togo form may be assumed between the two. The instruction's allocation-delivery, surrender and carry-limit provisions for residents are separate exchange controls, not declaration duties, and are deliberately excluded from this procedure.