Gabon

Here is an indication of prohibited items for mailing to Gabon. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Gabonese Republic Government 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 below 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

Prohibited items

Prohibited products are not permitted in the mail under any circumstances.

• Live animals; animal products
• Live animals
• Meat and edible meat offal
• Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• Vegetable products
• 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
• Preparations of vegetables, fruits, nuts or other parts of plants
• Miscellaneous edible preparations
• Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• Mineral products
• Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials; lime and cement
• Ores, slag and ash
• Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• Products of the chemical or allied industries
• Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• Fertilisers
• 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
• Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof
• Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulose material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof
• 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
• Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair
• Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
• Miscellaneous manufactured articles
• 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
• Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof