Belarus

Here is an indication of restricted items for mailing to Belarus. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Belarus Post Office website;

Please also refer to Universal Postal Union - online prohibitions search tool

You must not send any item addressed to a country in which the item is unlawful or prohibited. When an item is restricted you must comply with the restriction. Prohibitions and restrictions vary from country to country, and can sometimes apply to items which you may think are ordinary. The information above is provided in good faith, but Royal Mail is not responsible for it, and it should be viewed as a guide only. Specific restrictions and changes may be enforced at short notice, so for clarification please contact the destination country's trade, postal, and customs authorities as appropriate. Business customers are strongly recommended to do this.

Please remember that Royal Mail also prohibits and restricts certain categories of items. For more information read our guidelines on international prohibited goods and international restricted goods

Restricted items

• Live animals; animal products
• Live animals
• Meat and edible meat offal
• Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• Vegetable products
• Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
• Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• Coffee, tea, maté and spices
• Cereals
• Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
• Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included
• Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
• Sugars and sugar confectionery
• Cocoa and cocoa preparations
• Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
• Miscellaneous edible preparations
• Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder
• Mineral products
• Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• Products of the chemical or allied industries
• Organic chemicals
• Pharmaceutical products
• Fertilisers
• Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes
• Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof
• Plastics and articles thereof
• 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)
• Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather
• Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork
• Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
• Cork and articles of cork
• Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork
• Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulose material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof
• Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• Textiles and textile articles
• Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric
• Cotton
• Other vegetable textile fibres, paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn
• Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted
• Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair
• Headgear and parts thereof
• Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair
• Base metals and articles of base metal
• Articles of iron and steel
• Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof
• 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 articles
• Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers and parts and accessories of such articles
• Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment
• Aircraft, spacecraft and parts thereof
• Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof
• Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
• Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques
   

For more information about posting an item to Belarus please refer to the Belarus Post Office website

To help facilitate customs clearance, it is recommended that you provide recipient contact details (email address and/or phone number) so that recipients are contactable if any information is missing or incorrect. Contact details should be provided within the electronic customs data or in the case of a CN23 on the physical declaration. To ensure this information is protected do not write these contact details separately on the outside item.