Ethiopia

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

Please also refer 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
• Live animals
• Meat and edible meat offal
• 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
• Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 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
• Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Products of the chemical or allied industries
• Pharmaceutical products
• Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
• Textiles and textile articles
• Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
   

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