How Much Does It Cost to Ship a Pet from the USA to Norway?

The endorsement sits in the $101 band because no test result has to be verified on the certificate. APHIS does not count rabies vaccinations toward the number of tests, so the vaccination on its own does not push the fee into a higher band. Where a test is required the same schedule charges $160 for the first animal and $10 for each additional animal. The fee is per certificate rather than per pet, so two animals on one certificate costs far less than two separate certificates.

The Norwegian Food Safety Authority allows animals from third countries, other than a short list of close European neighbors, to enter only through Oslo Airport Gardermoen or the Storskog road crossing at Kirkenes. From the United States that means Oslo. Bergen, Stavanger, Trondheim and Tromso cannot clear the animal, so a move to any of them is an Oslo arrival plus a domestic leg, quoted per route.

The owner or the authorised person has to present the animal and its documents to the authority at the point of entry, and the authority asks to be notified at least 48 hours before arrival to avoid a long wait for the check. That notification is easy to forget and it is the difference between clearing in minutes and standing at Gardermoen with a crated dog.

One rule to settle before anything else. Norway bans six dog breeds outright, and the ban covers crossbreeds in any proportion: the Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier, the Fila Brasileiro, the Tosa Inu, the Dogo Argentino and the Czechoslovakian Wolfdog. Wolf-dog hybrids are treated as dangerous as well, and importing any of them is illegal. For those dogs there is no plan to price, so tell us the breed first.

Norway requires every dog, puppies included, to be treated against the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis before entry. Cats and ferrets are exempt. The treatment has to contain praziquantel or a substance proven to reduce mature and immature intestinal forms of the parasite, it has to be given by a veterinarian, and it has to be administered not more than 120 hours and not less than 24 hours before the animal enters Norway. The veterinarian certifies it in the relevant section of the health certificate.

That is a window of one to five days, which in practice means a second clinic visit close to departure rather than something folded into the export examination. Budget the visit, and build the flight date around it rather than the other way round. A treatment given six days out does not count and the animal will not be cleared.

Your vet sets their own fees. The examination and the certificate paperwork are priced by your clinic and vary between practices, so ask your vet directly. Ground transport at either end is quoted per route. Our coordination fee is included in the total we quote you and itemized on your invoice.

One thing the table cannot show. These figures assume the pet travels with its owner, or that the owner travels within five days either side of the animal. Where that is not the case the EU treats the move under its commercial entry rules instead, which bring a registered establishment of origin, a registered destination, a registered transporter and clearance at a border control post rather than a point of entry. That is a different job at a different price, so tell us your own travel dates early and we will tell you which one you are in.

Crate size is the single biggest lever, because it drives chargeable weight. On a Norwegian move the second lever is the domestic leg from Oslo, and the third is the timing of the tapeworm treatment, which can force a departure date rather than follow one. Season matters too: summer heat embargoes narrow the booking window and winter cold rules do the same, and cold rules bite harder on a northern arrival. Two pets on one certificate share the USDA endorsement, while each extra pet adds its own crate and freight, up to a maximum of five animals in a non-commercial movement.

Freight calculated from the American Airlines Cargo published live animal tariff. Endorsement fees from the USDA APHIS Veterinary Services user fee schedule. EU entry conditions from the European Commission page on bringing a pet into the EU from a non-EU country, the listing that exempts the United States from the rabies titer test, and the Commission list of travellers points of entry. Norwegian conditions, the entry points, the 48 hour notice and the banned breed list from the Norwegian Food Safety Authority pages on bringing dogs, cats and ferrets in from third countries and on banned dogs. Government fees change, so every figure here is tied to the authority that publishes it. Verified September 2026.

Send us the route, the breed and roughly when you want to travel. Request a quote and we will reply with an itemized plan, a timeline and clear next steps. For entry rules and the full paperwork timeline, see our guide to pet shipping requirements for Norway, or compare other routes on the pet shipping cost calculator.