MADAGASCAR
(Country code: MG)
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:
- alcohol and spirits, beer and cider
- animal products
- animal or human serums, vaccines for medicines
- birds eggs
- bran
- cell phones or mobile phones (must be sent via insured or -registered items)
- cereals
- coffee / green tea
- cocoa and chocolate
- cotton
- cloves
- edible fats and oils
- electrical apparatus
- fish and crustaceans
- fruits and nuts
- honey
- human hair
- guts, bladder and stomachs of animals
- meat and meat products
- milk and dairy products
- measuring instruments
- postage stamps
- pharmaceuticals
- plants and plant products
- pepper
- postage stamps
- precious stones and metal
- preparations of meat
- products flavoured with vanillla
- preserved nuts
- products of animal origin
- petroleum oils
- propellant powders used in mining or hunting
- pumps for dispensing fuel or lubricant
- receptacles, measuring devices (base metals)
- revenue stamps
- stamps
- sugar and sugar confectionary, molasses and glucose
- telescopic equipment
- tobacco
- used sacks
- war material and similar equipment
- wine
- wheat
- written publications
- vinegar
- vegetables (roots and tubers)
- vanilla
- vermouth.
Prohibited Items
In addition to items considered non-mailable matter, the following are prohibited:
- absinthe and the like
- baby comforters not made of pure rubber
- beryillium
- contraceptives
- clothing which can be mistaken for military clothing
- charged cartridges for military use and firing caps
- credit card blanks
- drugs, non-prescription
- ethylvanillin
- gun cases, cartridge pouches, belts and bandoliers
- knives
- liquor
- men`s outer clothing of a khaki green or olive colour
- pornographic material
- preserves of fish
- preserves not bearing marks of origin
- soil
- toys (fruit machines, coin or jeton dispensers)
- vanilla products in tablet form and in small quantites
- vanillin.
Documentation Required
Information regarding Customs can be found in "Customs Requirements" of the Canada Postal Guide.
The following documents may be required:
1. Certificate of Origin
2. Import Permit
3. Phytosanitary Certificate.
In addition, all commercial goods mailed to Madagascar require a Certificate of Origin.
Import permits may be required from the following Government Ministries:
- Ministry of Commerce
- National Institute of Nuclear Science and Techniques
- Ministry of Energy and Mines
- Ministry of Fisheries
- Ministry of Water and Forests
- Ministry of Agriculture
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