Egypt

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

Please refer also to the 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 visit royalmail.com/prohibitedgoods

Restricted items

• Live animals; animal products
• 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
• 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
• Preparations of vegetables, fruits, nuts or other parts of plants
• Miscellaneous edible preparations
• Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Products of the chemical or allied industries
• Organic chemicals
• Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
• Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
• Miscellaneous chemical products
• 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
• Textiles and textile articles
• Silk
• Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric
• Carpets and other textile floor coverings
• Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery
• 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
• Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles
• Base metals and articles of base metal
• Iron and steel
• Copper and articles thereof
• Nickel and articles thereof
• Aluminium and articles thereof
• Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal
• Miscellaneous articles of base metal
   

For more information about posting an item to Egypt please refer to the Egyptian 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.