BHUTAN
(Country code: BT)
Maximum Coverage = Maximum Declared Value for Carriage for the Priority™ Worldwide service.
Import Restrictions
Senders should determine import restrictions from the country's authorities before posting:
- bees
- cards, playing
- cigarette lighters
- coffee seeds and trees
- confectionery
- films
- fountain pens and parts thereof
- gemstones, precious or synthetic
- insect specimens
- insecticides and parasite killers
- liqueurs
- pencils, lead and propelling
- perfume
- plants and plant products
- radio apparatus
- rubber
- saccharine
- silkworms
- spectacles and sunglasses
- sugar cane
- tobacco products
- watches and watch-parts.
An import permit is required for all commercial goods. Before posting any item, senders should confirm that the addressee has any necessary permit. Bhutan admits gifts to the value of $20CDN without an import licence, but customs duty is payable. Books and magazines are duty-free.
Prohibited Items
In addition to items considered non-mailable matter, the following are prohibited:
- advertising
- airline tickets blank or issue
- alcohol
- animal products and skins
- annual reports
- antiques
- appliances
- artwork, commercial / fine
- asbestos
- ATM cards
- ball bearings
- bank note resemblances included in the design of any article
- batteries
- beans
- binders
- blank forms
- blueprints
- books
- brochures
- buttons
- cakes
- calendars
- camera
- carpets
- catalogs / magazines / manuscripts
- chemicals
- chips
- coinage resemblances, Indian currency
- collectible, book
- compact disc
- computer hardware
- computer printouts
- Contact lenses
- Cosmetics
- cotton, untreated
- credit card blanks
- dangerous goods
- digital video / diskettes
- drawings
- electrical equipment
- energy drinks
- eyewear, glasses
- firearms, including imitation firearms and toys resembling firearms
- flowers, fresh
- furs
- furniture
- gambling devices
- gift shipment
- goods insufficiently marked as to origin.
- ivory
- jewellery
- journals
- juice
- knives
- lab equipment
- labels (cloth/paper)
- leather goods
- lottery tickets
- maps
- marine parts
- medical equipment / supplies
- metals, non-precious
- mineral products
- minerals
- money orders
- musical instruments
- negatives
- newspapers
- office equipment / supplies
- paints,
- parts, aircraft / auto / machine
- parts, electronic
- passports
- patterns, paper
- perishables
- pornography
- plants / seeds / soil
- playing cards
- potpourri
- precious metals and stones
- press kits
- quinine, pink-coloured
- samples
- satellite / satellite parts
- seeds
- shaving brushes, Japanese
- shoes
- silk and art objects made of silk
- slides
- smart cards
- software
- sports equipment
- stocks, non-negotiable
- tableware
- tapes, audio
- tapes, computer
- tapes, video
- technical drawings
- telephones
- textiles
- tickets, event
- tiles
- tires
- tobacco, raw
- toiletries
- tools
- toys
- trademarks, Indian, false or imitation
- vase
- waffles
- wig
- wireless equipment
- wood.
Documentation Required
Information regarding Customs can be found in "Customs Requirements" of the Canada Postal Guide.
Commercial goods mailed to Bhutan must include an invoice in duplicate and a Certificate of Origin. The customs declaration must either state that these are included or give a reason why not.
All items sent to a private individual in Bhutan from a business unit abroad and all commercial items should be accompanied by relevant invoice.
Bhutan admits gifts up to the value of $20 without an import license, however, customs duties are still applicable. Books and magazines are duty free.
The following documents may be required for import:
1. Certificate of Origin
2. Customs Import Declaration Form
3. Invoice
4. Import License
5. Insurance Policy
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