Kuwait

Here is an indication of prohibited items for mailing to Kuwait. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Kuwaiti Post 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 visit royalmail.com/prohibitedgoods

Prohibited items

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

• Live animals; animal products
• Live animals
• Meat and edible meat offal
• Vegetable products
• 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
• 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
• Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• Organic chemicals
• Pharmaceutical products
• Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
• Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof
• Rubber and articles thereof
• Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulose material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof
• Textiles and textile articles
• Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
• Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials; ceramic products; glass and glassware
• Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials
• Base metals and articles of base metal
• Articles of iron and steel
• 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
• 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
• Vehicles, other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
• Miscellaneous manufactured articles
• Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof