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