Syrian Arab Republic

Here is an indication of prohibited items for mailing to Syrian Arab Republic. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Syrian 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
• Vegetable products
• Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
• 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 cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
• Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Mineral products
• Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials; lime and cement
• Products of the chemical or allied industries
• Organic chemicals
• Pharmaceutical products
• 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
• Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
• Photographic or cinematographic products
• Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof
• Plastics 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
• Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• Textiles and textile articles
• Cotton
• Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
• Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
• 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
• Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles
• Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials; ceramic products; glass and glassware
• Glass and glassware
• Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin
• 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
• Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
• Miscellaneous manufactured articles