Nigeria

Goods up to £270 require customs label CN22. This form must be signed by the sender and attached to the top left hand corner of the item. The sender’s full name and address must be written on the front of the item. Goods over £270 require customs declaration CN23 + adhesive plastic wallet SP 126.

Please visit our customs  page for more information about customs and to access your customs forms.

Here is an indication of prohibited items for mailing to Nigeria. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Nigerian 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 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 or dead birds and poultry.
• Other live animals.
• Meat and edible meat offal
• Meat of bovine animals.
• Meat of swine.
• Meat of sheep or goats.
• Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats.
• Meat and edible offal of poultry.
• Meat and edible offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal.
• Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• Birds' eggs.
• Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish).
• Animal products not elsewhere specified or included.
• Vegetable products
• Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
• Fresh cut flowers and flower buds.
• Dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated flowers or flowers otherwise prepared.
• Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• Cassava and cassava products.
• Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• Fresh and dried fruits.
• Cereals
• Maize, Sorghum, Millet.
• Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• Wheat flour, Sago flour, Cassava starch.
• Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• Vegetable oils and fats, excluding linseed, castor oils and hydrogenated vegetable fats used as industrial raw materials.
• Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
• Sausages and similar products.
• Sugars and sugar confectionery
• Sugar confectionery.
• Cocoa and cocoa preparations
• Cocoa butter, powder and cakes.
• Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
• Spaghetti, noodles but excluding lasagna, gnocchi, ravioli and cannelloni, Tapioca, Biscuits.
• Preparations of vegetables, fruits, nuts or other parts of plants
• Fruit juices in retail packs.
• Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured; ice and snow.
• Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages.
• Beer, bottled, canned or otherwise packed.
• Other fermented beverages.
• Mineral products
• Bentonite.
• Barytes.
• Bagged cement, excluding white cement.
• Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials; lime and cement
• 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
• Ferrous sulphate and ferrous gluconate tablets.
• Organic chemicals
• Piperazine tablets and syrups.
• Levamisole tablets and syrups.
• Vitamin B complex tablets (except modified release formulations); multivitamin tablets, capsules and syrups (except special formulations).
• Pharmaceutical products
• Folic acid tablets.
• Ampicillin/Cloxacillin combination capsules.
• Penicillin/Gentamycin ointments.
• Paracetamol tablets and syrups.
• Metronidazole tablets and syrups.
• Chloroquine tablets and syrups.
• Aspirin tablets (except modified release formulations and soluble aspirin).
• Magnesium trisilicate tablets and suspensions.
• Clotrimazole cream.
• Pyrantel pamoate tablets and syrups.
• Intravenous fluids ( dextrose, normal saline, etc.).
• Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
• Toothpastes of all kinds.
• Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes; polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, "dental waxes" and dental preparations with a basis of plaster
• Finished soaps and detergents.
• Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
• Explosives, etc.
• Miscellaneous chemical products
• Mosquito repellent coils.
• Disinfectants and germicides.
• Plastics and articles thereof
• Sanitary wares of plastics.
• Domestic articles and wares of plastics.
• Tooth picks.
• Rubber and articles thereof
• Retreaded and used pneumatic tyres.
• Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)
• All types of handbags, including suitcases of leather and plastic.
• Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
• Tooth picks.
• Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• Corrugated paper and paper boards.
• Envelopes.
• Toilet paper, cleansing and facial tissues, towels and similar sanitary articles.
• All forms of paper cartons, boxes and cases.
• Diaries.
• Exercise books.
• Greeting cards.
• Calendars.
• Silk
• All articles.
• Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric
• All articles, except multifilament nylon chafer fabrics and tracing cloth
• Cotton
• All articles
• Other vegetable textile fibres, paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn
• All articles, except jute yarn
• Man-made filaments
• Man-made staple fibres
• All articles, except acrylic yarn
• Wadding, felt and non-wovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof
• All articles, except: fibre twine, cordage, ropes and cables; made-up fishing nets; mosquito nets.
• Carpets and other textile floor coverings
• All articles
• Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery
• All articles, except: polypropylene primary and secondary carpet backing materials (5803.90); tulles and other net fabrics; narrow woven fabrics; ornamental trimmings; embroideries in motifs.
• Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use
• All articles, except: multifilament nylon chafer fabrics and tracing cloth; nylon tyre cord; textile fabrics, coated, impregnated, laminated or covered with plastics for industrial use; canvas fabrics for manufacture of fan belts; linings; transmission or conveyor belts or belting, of textile material; textile products and articles for technical use, including linoleum.
• Knitted or crocheted fabrics
• All articles.
• Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
• All articles, except: gloves for industrial use; linings.
• Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted
• All articles, except: moulding cups of lycra; linings.
• Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
• All articles, except: mosquito nets; jute bags; mutilated rags.
• Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles
• All types of footwear, excluding safety shoes used in oil industries and sport shoes.
• Glass and glassware
• Hollow glass bottles of a capacity exceeding 150 ml (0.15 l) of a kind used for packaging of beverages by breweries and other beverage and drink companies.
• Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal
• Axes, pick axes, spades, cutlasses, shovels and similar hewing tools.
• Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• Used compressors.
• Used air conditioning machines.
• Used refrigerators and freezers.
• Vehicles, other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• Used motor vehicles above eight years from the year of manufacture.
• Fully built bicycles.
• Frames, forks, rims and mudguards.
• Wheelbarrows.
• 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
• Seats, except stadium chairs.
• Other furniture and parts thereof, except all fittings and accessories used in furniture making.
• Electric generating sound-proof casings, except other prefabricated buildings.
• Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof
• Gambling machines.
• Miscellaneous manufactured articles
• Ballpoint pens.

Here is an indication of restricted items for mailing to Nigeria. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Nigerian 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 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

• Textiles and textile articles
• Wadding, felt and non-wovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof
• Metallized yarn.

Lace and embroidery manufacturers are granted a special concession to import their raw materials of specialized yarn and base fabric (base cloth) of cotton, synthetic and staple fibres falling under the certain H.S. codes for a period not exceeding 2 years:
- i yarn:
-ii base fabrics:
Carpet manufacturers are expected to source their yarn requirement locally.