Romania
Letter mail
Parcel
EMS
Prohibited articles list
Additional requests
The limits of weight/size for the Letter Mail
- PostCard: maximum weight 20g. maximum size - 240X340mm; maximum thickness – 5mm.
- Letter: maxsimum weight 250g. maximum size - 240X340mm; maximum thickness: 5mm.
- Small package: maxsimum weight 2kg. maximum size - 240X340mm; maximum thickness: 50mm.
- M Bag: maxsimum weight 30kg. maximum height - 80cm; maximum circumference -120cm.
Requered quantity of Customs declarations (CN23): 1
If it’s possible to send insured* Letter Post: Yes (Except for the mail which contains money, coins, banking tickets, other values)
Maximum insurance coverage: 4000 SDR**
*Insured Letter mail –Type of Registered letter, Small package 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 website
Please note: The maximum insured value is 10000 GEL, If at the moment of dispatch the insuredvalue of the item in SDR exceeds 10000 GEL it must be insured for 10000 GEL or under.
The limits of weight/size for the Parcel: Parcel shall be admitted up to a maximum weight of 30 kilograms.
In addition, Parcel shall not normally exceed 1.05 meters for any one dimension or three meters
for the sum of the length and the greatest circumference measured in a direction other than length.
If it’s possible to send insured* Parcel: Yes
Maximum insurance coverage: 4000 SDR**
Requered quantity of Customs declarations: 1
*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 website
Please note: The maximum insured value is 10000 GEL, If at the moment of dispatch the insuredvalue of the item in SDR exceeds 10000 GEL it must be insured for 10000 GEL or under.
The limits of weight/size for the dispatched EMS: EMS items shall be admitted up to a maximum weight of 31,5 kilograms.
In addition, EMS items shall not normally exceed 1.05 meters for any one dimension or three meters for the sum of the length
and the greatest circumference measured in a direction other than length.
Coverage territories: Entire territory
EMS delivery week days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Requered quantity of Customs declarations: 1
Quantity of attempts made for the purpose of EMS item delivery: 2 attempts
An undeliverable EMS item is held back for a period of days: 7 days
EMS item delivery to P.O. Box: Yes
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 Romania
Part I:
List of articles prohibited as imports (or in transit) or admitted conditionally
Section I Live animals; animal productsChapter 1 Live animals
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
01.06 0106.00 The insertion of live animals in letter-post items shall be prohibited.
ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
Bees, leeches, silkworms; parasites and destroyers of noxious insects for the control of those insects and exchanged between officially recognized institutions.
Chapter 2 Meat and edible meat offal
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
02.01–10 Poultry carcasses and meat cut in pieces are admitted only individually packed and protected in pasteboard boxes with a permit issued by the Veterinary Departmentof the Ministry of Agriculture (may be imported only by legal persons).
Chapter 3 Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
Nil.
Chapter 4 Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
04.01–10 Products of animal origin must be accompanied by veterinary health certificates issued by a veteri- nary doctor of state attesting that the conditions of the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture are fulfilled (these products may be imported only by legal persons).
Chapter 5 Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
05.01–11 Other kinds of animal products may be imported only by legal persons, with the agreement of the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture. Thisdepartment issues and sends to the importer in writing the veterinary import permit and the veterinary health certificate for import. These documents are also sent to theveterinary police department from Customs and to the veterinary departments from the regions that the beneficiary of these imports.
Section II Vegetable productsChapter 6 Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
Nil.
Chapter 7 Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
Nil.
Chapter 8 Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
Nil.
Chapter 9 Coffee, tea, maté and spices
Nil.
Chapter 10 Cereals
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
10.05 Corn – imported seeds must be accompanied by the following documents: documents of authenticity and quality; phytosanitary quarantine certificate issued by theauthorities from the country of origin; import permit for vegetable products that are subject to a phytosanitary quarantine regime, issued by the State Inspectorate forPhytosanitary Quarantine.
1005.10 Double hybrids and cross-hybrids.
Three-times-crossed hybrids. Simple hybrids.
Other.
Chapter 11 Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
Nil.
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Chapter 12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
Chapter 13 Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
13.02 Saps and vegetable extracts – see chapter 12.
Chapter 14 Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included
Nil.
Section III Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxesChapter 15 (Sole chapter)
Nil.
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 For preparations of meat: collagen is not admitted in proportions higher than 20% of the total protein content, and additions to these products (soya flour, starch,sodium chloride, nitrates, phosphates) must be listed, with their quantities, on the labels; minced meat or meat paste, whatever the kind of meat, may be imported subject to the following conditions: only frozen (minimum –18 degree Celsius); only for the production of meat preparations, thermally treated in industrializing units,under veterinary health supervision; only from units checked and with the prior approval of the Romanian veterinary authority. Minced meat or meat paste must notcontain offal or fragments of bones.
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
Nil.
Chapter 21 Miscellaneous edible preparations
Nil.
Chapter 22 Beverages, spirits and vinegar
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
22.07 Alcoholic products > 70%.
22.08 Ethyl alcohol; alcoholic products > 24% and < 70%.
Chapter 23 Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
23.01–09 Prohibited.
ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
Imported fodder should be accompanied by veterinary health certificates issued by a state veterinary doctor, which must attest the fulfilment of veterinary healthconditions set by the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture. The label attached on the package of these products will include the date of manufacturingand the period of validity of these products. This information should be given in the accompanying veterinary health certificate and in the declaration of confor- mity.
Chapter 24 Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
24.01–03 Prohibited.
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
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
27.06 Tar from pitfall, lignite or peat and other mineral tars, even dehydrated or partially distilled, including reconstituted tars.
27.07 Oils and other derivatives from the distillation of pitfall tar at high temperatures; similar products in which the weight of aromatic compounds is higher than the weightof non-aromatic compounds.
27.08 Pitch and pitch from coke, obtained from pitfall tar or from other mineral tars.
27.09 Crude oils derived from oil and from bituminous minerals.
27.10 Oils derived from petroleum and bituminous minerals, others than crude.
27.12 Chlorate paraffins, liquid or solid.
27.13 Oil coke, oil bitumen and other residues from petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous min- erals.
27.14 Bitumen and asphalt, natural; bituminous shales and sands; asphaltites and asphalt rocks.
Section VI Products of the chemical or allied industries
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Chapter 28 Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
Chapter 29 Organic chemicals
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Heading
29.02–04
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HS Code
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ÿ Prohibited articles
Hydrocarbons and derivatives.
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29.07
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Phenols; phenol-alcohol.
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29.08
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Halogenated derivatives, sulphonates, nitrates or nitrosates of phenols or phenol-alcohol.
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29.09
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Ethers.
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29.10
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Epoxides.
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29.20 Carboxylic acids, halogenated, peroxides, peroxiacides and esters.
29.24 Compounds with carboxiamide function; compounds of carbonic acid with amide function.
29.27–29 Diasoic, azoic or anoxic compounds; organic derivatives of hydrazine or hydroxylamine.
29.31 Other organo-inorganic compounds.
29.34 Other heterocyclic compounds.
ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
29.35 Sulphonamides – with a permit issued by the Ministry of Health; only legal persons may import.
29.36 Vitamins – with a permit issued by the Ministry of Health or the Ministry of Agriculture; only legal persons may import.
29.37 Hormones, natural or reproduced through synthesis; their derivatives used mainly as hormones;
other steroids – see 29.36.
ÿ Prohibited articles
29.38–39 Heteroides and alkaloids
ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
29.41 Antibiotics – with a permit issued by the Ministry of Health; only legal person may import.
29.42 Other organic compounds – see 29.41.
Chapter 30 Pharmaceutical products
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
30.01–06 Accepted as imports only with the agreement of the Ministry of Health.
Chapter 31 Fertilisers
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Heading
31.01–05
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HS Code
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ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
Permit issued by the Ministry of Agriculture; only legal persons may import.
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ÿ Prohibited articles
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31.02
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3102.40
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Mixtures of ammonium nitrate and calcium carbonate or of other inorganic substances without fer- tilizing capacity.
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3102.80
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Mixtures of urea and ammonium nitrate.
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Chapter 32 Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
32.04–10 Colouring matters, colours, varnishes and paints.
Chapter 33 Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
33.01–07 Permit issued by the Ministry of Agriculture; only legal persons may import these products.
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
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
34.01–02 Soaps and preparations used in washing – according to the agreement issued by the Preventive
Medical Department, only legal persons may import these products.
34.07 Pastes for modelling, including those for children's use; compounds named "dental wax", packed in sets, in retail packages, in the shape of horseshoes, sticks or othersimilar shapes; other compounds for dental use, based on plaster – with a permit issued by the Ministry of Health; only legal persons may import such articles.
Chapter 35 Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
35.01–07 Albuminoidal substances: starch, enzymes – only legal persons may import these products, with the agreement of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Chapter 36 Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
36.01–06 Substances considered explosive, inflammable or dangerous are prohibited in postal items.
Chapter 37 Photographic or cinematographic products
Nil.
Chapter 38 Miscellaneous chemical products
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Heading
38.04
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HS Code
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ÿ Prohibited articles
Residual lye wash.
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38.07
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Tars.
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ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
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38.08
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Pesticides – the permit for their import is issued by the Division for the Protection of Plants and Phytosanitary Quarantine of the Ministry of Agriculture, on the following condition: the import of pesticides is admitted only within the homologated parameters of quality and with a time of validity long enough to secure the possibility to use them; such products cannot be imported in packages similar to those used in Romania to package pharmaceutical products, foodstuffs and cosmetics; such products can be imported in other kinds of package which can be made of plate or polyethyl- ene, sacs made of paper or polyethylene, bottles, etc.
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ÿ Prohibited articles
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38.11
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Prohibited.
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38.13
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Prohibited.
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38.14
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Prohibited.
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38.17
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Prohibited.
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ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
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38.21
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Permit issued by the Ministry of Health – only legal persons may import.
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Section VII Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereofChapter 39 Plastics and articles thereof
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
39.01–14 Prohibited.
39.17 3917.10 Artificial intestines made of proteins or cellulose materials.
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
41.01–03 Raw leather – may be imported only by legal persons with a permit issued by the Ministry of Agri- culture.
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
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
43.01 Raw furskins – see 41.01.
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
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
49.01 Indecent or obscene books.
49.07 4907.00 Counterfeits of legal tender notes, consolidated banknotes and fictitious stamps.
49.09 Indecent or obscene cards.
49.11 Indecent or obscene photographs.
Section XI Textiles and textile articlesChapter 50 Silk
Nil.
Chapter 51 Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric
Nil.
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
Nil.
Chapter 58 Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery
Nil.
Chapter 59 Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
59.03 Textile fabrics impregnated with nitroglycerin covered in plastic.
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
Nil.
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)
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
71.01–18 Prohibited.
Section XV Base metals and articles of base metalChapter 72 Iron and steel
Nil.
Chapter 73 Articles of iron and steel
Nil.
Chapter 74 Copper and articles thereof
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
74.01–19 Copper.
Chapter 75 Nickel and articles thereof
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
75.01–08 Nickel.
Chapter 76 Aluminium and articles thereof
Nil.
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
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
81.12 8112.30 Germanium.
Chapter 82 Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal
Nil.
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 and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articlesChapter 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
84.07 Engines with alternative or rotative piston, explosion engines.
84.08 Piston engines, compression engines.
84.18 Refrigerators.
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
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
86.09 Small capacity receptacles, containing gas; empty small containers; tanks for engine fuels.
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)
Heading HS Code ÿ Prohibited articles
93.01–07 Prohibited.
ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
Importation of hunting guns or other similar guns and ammunition belonging to legal persons is possible only with the agreement of the police department.
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
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
96.16 Various sprays – may only be imported by legal persons with the agreement of the Ministry of Health.
Section XXI Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiquesChapter 97 (Sole chapter)
Heading HS Code ÿ Articles admitted conditionally
97.01 Goods having cultural, historical or artistic value are subject to a written declaration; they cannot be taken out of the country without special permission.
Part II:
Conditions of admission of articles imported or in transit
N.B. Romania has not published Part II.
Part III:
Special provisions, Customs and other
N.B. Romania has not published Part III.
Requirements for the items which are liable to customs declaration:
- CN 22 and CN 23 should be completed in English and visibly attached to the postal item;
- A full and accurate description of the contents of the postal item is provided, including: category of goods (identifying whether the item is merchandise, a sample or a gift, etc.); number of articles/quantity within the postal item; net weight and value of each article; and currency for each article;
- In the case of the CN 23 customs declaration, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses are provided for the sender and addressee, where available;
- Any necessary or supporting documents (invoices, export or import licence, certificate of origin etc.) are attached or enclosed;
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