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Guidelines/ restrictions on sending packages to Russia by postal mail from U.S.
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Posted by: Khashyar

I found this information on restrictions by the U.S. Postal Service as to what you can mail to Russia...

Country Conditions for Mailing - Russia Russian Federation Prohibitions (130)

Chemical substance dangerous to human life, animals, and birds and designed to combat microbes, diseases, and plants.

Color copiers.

Currency of the Russian Federation; checks and other currencies for the Bank of External Trade and of the Bank for External Economic Affairs of the Russian Federation; securities payable to bearer; State bonds; and lottery tickets of the Russian Federation.

Explosives, pyrotechnic products, matches, pyrophoric alloys, combustible preparations.

Firearms of all kinds, ammunition, swords, cutlasses, bayonets, lances, and similar arms.

Honey, pollen, wax, and honeycombs.

Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry, manuscripts, and miscellaneous documents containing information that could be detrimental to State security, social order, public morals, property rights, including intellectual property and other interests of natural and legal persons.

Radioactive materials.

Transmitters and transceivers of any power, except Panasonic radiotelephones, models KX-T 7980, KX-T9000, KT-T 9050,and KX-T90890.

Undeveloped photosensitive products.

Restrictions

Books, newspapers, magazines, and other printed matter are admitted provided they contain no articles and reproductions of a vulgar and erotic nature that might be detrimental to public policy and the economy and that might infringe human rights.

Medicaments and preparations with added vitamins are admitted with the authorization of the Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation.

Not more than 200 cigarettes, the cost of which does not exceed 100 USD, may be sent in a package.

Observations

Articles or parts therefor imported for repair or replacement are exempt from customs duty if the sender's written declaration is included in the postal item.

Articles prohibited as imports into Russia and falsely indicated or not indicated at all on the customs declaration are confiscated.

If prohibited articles are sent, one of the following measures is taken:

-Seizure of the prohibited articles only, the rest delivered to the addressee.

-Return of the item to the country of origin.

-Seizure of the whole item.

Inherited goods from abroad are admitted and are exempt from customs duties on the basis of certificates issued by consulates of the Russian Federation abroad on the basis of the law of inheritance and the composition of the legacy.

It is prohibited to import into Russia postal items from commercial companies intended for private individuals permanently resident in Russia with the exception of legacies as well as articles admitted for repairs or replacement. However, licensed parcels from private parcel companies that have entered into a contract with VO "Vnieshintorg" are admitted. All dispatch formalities must be complied with in accordance with the current regulations in the Russian Federation.

Items containing articles admitted as imports are delivered to addressees subject to payment of customs duties at the rate of 30% of the cost of the articles:

-If the cost of the contents is between 101 USD and 1000 USD.

-If the quantity of articles imported exceeds three times the limit according to the internal standards set.

Items containing articles admitted as imports the cost of which is between 1001 USD and 10,000 USD are delivered to addressees subject to payment of the customs duties at the rate of 50% of the cost of the articles.

Items not intended for the addressee's personal use are understood to be items sent systematically in bulk even if they have different addresses and the regulation limit of the articles is complied with for each item separately. Such items are returned to the country of origin.

(From the U.S. Postal Service website: http://pe.usps.gov/text/imm/immicl/immiclnr_025.html)