Pakistan

Here is an indication of restricted items for mailing to Pakistan. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Pakistan Post 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
• Live animals
• Meat and edible meat offal
• Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• 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
• Cereals
• Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder
• Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• 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
• 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
• Base metals and articles of base metal
• Iron and steel
• Copper and articles thereof
• Nickel and articles thereof
• Aluminium and articles thereof
• Lead and articles thereof
• Zinc and articles thereof
• 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
• Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 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
• Aircraft, spacecraft and parts thereof
• Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
• Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques