Egypt
Letter mail
Parcel
EMS
Prohibited articles list
Weight / size limit admitted:
üPostcard – maximum weight 20g. maximum size - 240X340mm; maximum thickness – 5mm.
üLetter – maxsimum weight 250g. maximum size - 240X340mm; maximum thickness: 5mm.
üSmall packets – maxsimum weight 2kg. maximum size - 240X340mm; maximum thickness: 50mm.
üM bag – maxsimum weight 30kg. maximum height - 80cm; maximum circumference -120cm.
Insured* letters admitted – yes;
Maximum insured value – 1000 SDR**;
On-line tracking provided – yes;
Payments for inbound items in case, when content is a goods:
ü Customs clearance fee -
ü Threshold level below which items are free of customs duties and other taxes -
Numbers of customs declarations required for inbound letter – 2;
Languages in which customs declarations must be completed – French, English, Arabic;
Delivery charge for small packets exceeding 500 g – 1 SDR;
Period of retention for letters – 30 days;
*Insured Parcel–Type of Registered Parcel, which is insured at cost declared by the sender. Insured value should not be more than the actual cost of the package content and should not exceed 10 000 GEL.
**SDR–Monetary unit (Special Drawing Rights) created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - The value of the SDR in terms of the US dollar is determined daily based on exchange rates quoted at noon each day in the London market and posted on the IMF’s
***Custom declaration for letter post is required only in case, when content is a goods.
Weight / size limit admitted:
ü Max weight – 20 kg
ü Max size - 1,05m X 1,05m X 1,05m (or 2m length & greatest circumference);
Insured* parcels admitted – yes;
Maximum insured value - 1250 SDR**;
On-line tracking provided – yes;
Numbers of customs declarations required for inbound parcels – 1;
Languages in which customs declarations must be completed – English;
Payments for inbound parcels:
ü Customs clearance fee -
ü Threshold level below which parcels are free of customs duties and other taxes -
To customers’ address:
ü Free – yes;
ü Paid service – yes;
Period of retention for parcels:
ü Min – 15 days;
ü Max –
*Insured Parcel–Type of Registered Parcel, which is insured at cost declared by the sender. Insured value should not be more than the actual cost of the package content and should not exceed 10 000 GEL.
**SDR–Monetary unit (Special Drawing Rights) created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - The value of the SDR in terms of the US dollar is determined daily based on exchange rates quoted at noon each day in the London market and posted on the IMF’s
Weight / size limit admitted:
ü Max weight – 20 kg
ü Max size - 1,05m X 1,05m X 1,05m (or 2m length & greatest circumference);
Maximum insured value:
for documents: 4000 GEL
for merchandise: 10 000 GEL
Numbers of customs declarations required for inbound EMS – 3;
Languages in which customs declarations must be completed – English;
Payments for inbound parcels:
ü Customs clearance fee -
ü Threshold level below which parcels are free of customs duties and other taxes:
For private customers - 1 EGP;
For business customers - 1 EGP;
How many attempts at delivery are made: 3
Period of retention for EMS items:
Coverage: entire territory
Days of the week on which EMS items are delivered: 1/2/3/4/7
EMS item delivery to P.O. Box: No
National holidays on which EMS items are not delivered: 7,25 January, 25,29 April, 1 May, 5-7,30 June, 23 July, 11-15,31 August, 6 October, 9 November
*SDR–Monetary unit (Special Drawing Rights) created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - The value of the SDR in terms of the US dollar is determined daily based on exchange rates quoted at noon each day in the London market and posted on the IMF’s
The amount of insurance paid by the customer should not exceed the actual value of the contents of the parcel
Definition of Terms
· Prohibited items – items whose import into the country is prohibited.
· Items admitted conditionally – items whose importation into the country is allowed with the term if a document issued by the relevant authorities of the exporting country is presented.
· Items admitted without conditions – items whose import into the country is allowed.
Detailed information on the HS codes and their titles can be found on the Revenue Service web-page (http://www.rs.ge/4509) or at the following address: http://www.foreign-trade.com/reference/hscode.htm
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The below information is based upon the official source of Egypt
Part I:
1. Egypt Post, wishes to inform the designated operators of other Union member countries that its national regulations prohibit the sending to Egypt of postal items containing liquids or lithium batteries.
1. Egypt Post, wishes to inform the designated operators of other Union member countries that, the following articles are prohibited in international postal items destined for Egypt:
– Live honeybees or honey;
– Obscene or immoral items;
– Watches containing a camera;
– Pens containing a camera;
– Alarm clocks containing a camera;
– Money in cash (banknotes or coins);
– Cheques (including traveller’s cheques);
– Bank transfers and related documentation;
– Prohibited or illicit drugs as defined by the International Narcotics Control Board,including narcotics, cannabis/marijuana, and psychoactive substances;
– Electronic cigarettes and their liquids.
List of articles prohibited as imports (or in transit) or admitted conditionally
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Section I
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Live animals; animal products
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Chapter 1
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Live animals
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Heading
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HS Code
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ÿ Prohibited articles
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01.01-06
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Live swine, edible live birds and poultry, chicks for breeding.
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Chapter 2
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Meat and edible meat offal
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Heading
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HS Code
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ÿ Prohibited articles
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02.01-10
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Meats, entrails and pig fat. Butchered birds and poultry, birds' livers.
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Chapter 3
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Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
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Heading
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HS Code
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ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
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03.01-07
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Fish of all kinds.
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Chapter 4
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Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewherespecified or included
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Heading
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HS Code
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ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
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04.07
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0407.00
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With the exception of soft white cheese, Schaider cheese from Holland, natural honey and eggs, not
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04.09
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0409.00
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including eggs to be hatched.
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Chapter 5
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Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
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Nil.
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Section II
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Vegetable products
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Chapter 6
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Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
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Heading
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HS Code
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ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
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06.01-04
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Following approval by the competent agricultural authorities.
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Chapter 7
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Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
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Heading
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HS Code
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ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
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07.01-14
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Following approval by the competent agricultural authorities.
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Chapter 8
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Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
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Heading
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HS Code
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ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
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08.01-14
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Following approval by the competent agricultural authorities.
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Chapter 9
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Coffee, tea, maté and spices
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Heading
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HS Code
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ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
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09.01-10
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Following approval by the competent agricultural authorities.
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Chapter 10 Cereals
Nil.
Chapter 11 Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
11.01-09 Following approval by the competent agricultural authorities.
Chapter 12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
12.01-14 Except for hashish, narcotics and opium.
Chapter 13 Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
13.01-02 Following approval by the competent agricultural authorities.
Chapter 14 Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
14.01-04 Following approval by the competent agricultural authorities.
Section III Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxesChapter 15 (Sole chapter)
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
15.01 1501.00 Except for pig fat.
Section IV Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutesChapter 16 Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
16.01-05 Except for pork and preserved fish other than tuna.
Chapter 17 Sugars and sugar confectionery
Nil.
Chapter 18 Cocoa and cocoa preparations
Nil.
Chapter 19 Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
Nil.
Chapter 20 Preparations of vegetables, fruits, nuts or other parts of plants
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
20.05 2005.70 Olives.
Chapter 21 Miscellaneous edible preparations
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
21.01-06 Soft white cheese in packages not weighing less than half a kilogramme.
Chapter 22 Beverages, spirits and vinegar
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
22.01-09 Alcohol, ethylene.
Chapter 23 Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder
Nil.
Chapter 24 Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
24.02 2402.10-
2402.20
Cigarettes and cigars.
Section V Mineral productsChapter 25 Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials; lime and cement
Nil.
Chapter 26 Ores, slag and ash
Nil.
Chapter 27 Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
Nil.
Section VI Products of the chemical or allied industriesChapter 28 Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
Nil.
Chapter 29 Organic chemicals
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
29.01-42 Benzine octane.
Chapter 30 Pharmaceutical products
Nil.
Chapter 31 Fertilisers
Nil.
Chapter 32 Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks
Nil.
Chapter 33 Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
33.01-07 Ordinary soap, toilet soap and shaving soap.
Chapter 34 Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes; polishing or scouring preparations,candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, "dental waxes" and dental preparations with a basis of plaster
Nil.
Chapter 35 Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes
Nil.
Chapter 36 Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
36.04 3604.10 Bengal matches.
Chapter 37 Photographic or cinematographic products
Nil.
Chapter 38 Miscellaneous chemical products
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
38.01-24 Benzine octane.
Section VII Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereofChapter 39 Plastics and articles thereof
Nil.
Chapter 40 Rubber and articles thereof
Nil.
Section VIII Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut(other than silk-worm gut)Chapter 41 Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
41.01-11 Articles of natural and artificial leather and of fur, not including those used for industrial safety.
Chapter 42 Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers;
articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)
Nil.
Chapter 43 Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof
Nil.
Section IX Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware andwickerworkChapter 44 Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
Nil.
Chapter 45 Cork and articles of cork
Nil.
Chapter 46 Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork
Nil.
Section X Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulose material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard;
paper and paperboard and articles thereofChapter 47 Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulose material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard
Nil.
Chapter 48 Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
Nil.
Chapter 49 Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry;
manuscripts, typescripts and plans
Nil.
Section XI Textiles and textile articlesChapter 50 Silk
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
50.07 Fine silk.
Chapter 51 Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
51.01-13 Wool, fine silk and linen.
Chapter 52 Cotton
Nil.
Chapter 53 Other vegetable textile fibres, paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn
Nil.
Chapter 54 Man-made filaments
Nil.
Chapter 55 Man-made staple fibres
Nil.
Chapter 56 Wadding, felt and non-wovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof
Nil.
Chapter 57 Carpets and other textile floor coverings
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
57.01-05 Knotted carpets and woven carpets.
Chapter 58 Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
58.01-11 Woven fabrics made of silk.
Chapter 59 Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use
Nil.
Chapter 60 Knitted or crocheted fabrics
Nil.
Chapter 61 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
Nil.
Chapter 62 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted
Nil.
Chapter 63 Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
Nil.
Section XII Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding- crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles madetherewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hairChapter 64 Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
64.01-06 Shoes of all kinds.
Chapter 65 Headgear and parts thereof
Nil.
Chapter 66 Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof
Nil.
Chapter 67 Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers;
articles of human hair
Nil.
Section XIII Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials; ceramic products;
glass and glasswareChapter 68 Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials
Nil.
Chapter 69 Ceramic products
Nil.
Chapter 70 Glass and glassware
Nil.
Section XIV Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coinChapter 71 (Sole chapter)
Nil.
Section XV Base metals and articles of base metalChapter 72 Iron and steel
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
72.01-29 Pipes and tubes made of iron or steel, except for those that can rust.
Chapter 73 Articles of iron and steel
Nil.
Chapter 74 Copper and articles thereof
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
74.01-19 Electric cables and insulated wire.
Chapter 75 Nickel and articles thereof
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
75.01-08 Nickel batteries, energy-producing devices, electronic calculators.
Chapter 76 Aluminium and articles thereof
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
76.01-16 Aerosol spray containers made of aluminium.
Chapter 77 (Reserved for possible future use in the harmonized system)
Nil.
Chapter 78 Lead and articles thereof
Nil.
Chapter 79 Zinc and articles thereof
Nil.
Chapter 80 Tin and articles thereof
Nil.
Chapter 81 Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof
Nil.
Chapter 82 Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
82.01-15 Spoons, ladles, forks and cutlery.
Chapter 83 Miscellaneous articles of base metal
Nil.
Section XVI Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders andreproducers, and parts and accessories of such articlesChapter 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
Nil.
Chapter 85 Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers andparts and accessories of such articles
Nil.
Section XVII Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipmentChapter 86 Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (includingelectro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds
Nil.
Chapter 87 Vehicles, other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof
Nil.
Chapter 88 Aircraft, spacecraft and parts thereof
Nil.
Chapter 89 Ships, boats and floating structures
Nil.
Section XVIII Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereofChapter 90 Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
Nil.
Chapter 91 Clocks and watches and parts thereof
Nil.
Chapter 92 Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles
Nil.
Section XIX Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereofChapter 93 (Sole chapter)
Nil.
Section XX Miscellaneous manufactured articlesChapter 94 Furniture, bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings not elsewhere specified or included;illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
Nil.
Chapter 95 Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof
Nil.
Chapter 96 Miscellaneous manufactured articles
Nil.
Section XXI Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiquesChapter 97 (Sole chapter)
Nil.
Part II:
Conditions of admission of articles imported or in transit
N.B. Egypt has not published Part II.
Part III:
Special provisions, Customs and other
N.B. Egypt has not published Part III.
Articles whose importation or circulation is prohibited in the country of destination, and in accordance with national legislation, the insertion of money in cash, banknotes, coins and other valuable articles is prohibited even in registered or insured items destined for Egypt.
Details of goods subject to prohibitions and restrictions in Egypt can be found in the UPU Prohibitions Compendium (prohibitions.ptc.post), and in the country-specific list of prohibitions (www.upu.int/en/Postal-Solutions/Programmes-Services/PostalSupply-Chain/Customs), in accordance with article 19.1.3 of the UPU Convention.
As provided for in article 19.8.1 of the Convention, items containing prohibited articles will be treated as wrongly admitted and, in accordance with national law, will not be forwarded, delivered or returned to origin. In order to avoid the seizure or disposal of mail items containing such articles, Egypt Post seeks the cooperation and commitment of the designated operators of other Union member countries. It requests that they provide their employees and customers with the necessary instructions and guidance to prevent individuals from sending items containing such articles.
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