Goods |
Example Goods |
Narcotics |
Narcotics and psychotropic substances |
Obscene articles |
Obscene or immoral articles |
Counterfeit or pirated articles |
Counterfeit or pirated articles |
Personal correspondence |
Private documents (excluding documentary records) to be exchanged between persons other than the sender and recipient (including those in the same domicile) |
Live animals |
Live animals |
Valuables |
Uninsured packages (regular or small parcels) should not include coins, banknotes, paper money, securities of any kind payable to the bearer, travelers' checks, processed or unprocessed platinum, gold or silver, precious stones, jewels or other valuables. |
Goods prohibited by CITES |
Ivory, ivory products, etc. |
Explosives |
Nitroglycerine, detonators, igniters, fuses, flares, ammunition, and pyrotechnics |
Gases |
Gas cylinder, lighter, fire extinguisher, carbon dioxide gas, nitrogen gas, helium, liquid ammonia |
Flammable liquids |
Gasoline, alcohol, stripping agents, and thinner |
Flammable solids, pyrophoric materials, materials that generate flammable gas upon contact with water |
Matches, charcoal, solid alcohol, rubber glue, lacquer putty, iron powder, sodium hydroxide, barium |
Oxidizers and Organic Peroxide |
Oxygen Generator / Bleach |
Poisonous or Contagious Substances |
Solid bactericides, mercury compounds, and rodenticides |
Radioactive substances |
Plutonium, radium, uranium, and cesium |
Corrosive substances |
Corrosive cleaning liquids, corrosive rust removers and corrosion inhibitors, corrosive paint and vanish removers, nitric acid, battery liquids, and sulfuric acid |
Other harmful substances and goods that contain environmental toxins |
Magnets, dry ice, transformers, asbestos, airbags, seat belts, capacitors, stabilizers, survival equipment |