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Timestamp: 2019-06-25 12:24:46
Document Index: 108975568

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 4', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 5', '§ 5', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 6', '§ 7', '§ 9', '§ 7', '§ 8']

Georgian Post: Requirements for sending international mail - Cyprus
ü Customs clearance fee - 3.5 local currency;
ü Threshold level below which items are free of customs duties and other taxes - 45 local currency;
Languages in which customs declarations must be completed – English, Greek;
Web site address of postal administration – www.post.at
ü Threshold level below which parcels are free of customs duties and other taxes - 45 local currency;
ü Customs clearance fee - 3.5 EUR;
For private customers - 150 EUR;
National holidays on which EMS items are not delivered: 1,6 January, 11,25 March, 1,26,29 April, 1 May, 17 June, 15 August, 1,28 October, 24,25,26 December
Web site address of postal administration – www.cypruspost.post/en/home
The below information is based upon the official source of Cyprus
01.01-01.06 All live animals except those which are specified in Part II, § 1.
02.01-02.10 All meat and all offals.
03.01-03.04 Their importation is either prohibited or subject to regulations.
Fish, live or not fresh, chilled or frozen. Their importation can be effected only under the terms set out in Part II, § 2, b, c and d.
03.05 0305.49 Smoked trout.
03.05-03.07 All products.
04.01-04.02 Importation of milk with a fat content of less than 7% is prohibited unless under licence granted by the Director of Medical Services.
04.05-04.08 Their importation is either prohibited or subject to regulation.
Milk and cream other than food preparations with a basis of milk specially prepared as food
for babies, all in airtight containers for retail sale. Butter, cheese, birds' eggs and egg yolks, fresh, dried or otherwise preserved, sweetened or not. Their importation can be effected only under
the terms set out in Part II, § 2, b, c and d.
04.09 0409.00 Natural honey.
05.04 0504.00 Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals. Their importation can be effected only under the authority of an import licence.
05.11 Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of chapter 1 or 3 unfit for human consumption. Their importation can be effected only under the authority of an import licence.
06.01-06.04 Live plants, flower bulbs and cut flowers contaminated by parasites considered to be dangerous to crops.
Vine plants. Cut flowers.
All plants, parts of plants' trees, bushes, flower bulbs and cut flowers. See Part II, § 3.
07.01-07.14 The importation of all products of this kind is either prohibited or subject to regulation.
Their importation can be effected only under the authority of an import licence and, additionally, under the terms set out in Part II, § 3.
Position HS Code ■ Prohibited articles
08.01-08.14 The importation of all products of this kind is either prohibited or subject to regulation.
08.02 0802.11-
08.05 0805.10-
The importation of the following goods is prohibited: walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts.
08.14 0814.00 Citrus peel.
08.01-08.14 The importation is subject to the terms as specified in Part II, § 4.
09.01 Coffee, whether or not roasted or freed of caffeine; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion. Coffee musks and skins. The importation of these goods is subject to import licensing regulations. In addition to the above, coffee (when imported in large amounts) must originate in countries which are members of the International Coffee Organizations and be accompanied, to that effect, by a relevant certificate.
10.01 1001.10
Wheat and meslin (mixed wheat and rye).
10.02 1002.00 Rye.
10.03 1003.00 Barley.
10.04 1004.00 Oats.
10.05 1005.10
10.07 1007.00 Grain sorghum.
10.08 1008.10
Buckwheat, millet, canary seed; other cereals.
The importation of these goods is subject to import licensing regulations.
11.01-11.07 Cereal flours, cereal groats and cereal meal, flour of leguminous vegetable or of fruit, flour, meal and flakes of potato; malt. Their importation is subject to import licensing regulations issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
12.02 1202.10 Groundnuts in shell.
12.07 Their importation is either prohibited or subject to regulation.
12.11 Narcotics.
12.02 Groundnuts, sesame seed, Lucerne seed. Their importation can be effected only under the authority of an import licence issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and, additionally, under the terms set out in Part II, § 3 and 5.
Locust beans, fresh or dried, whether or not kibbled or ground but not further prepared, fruit kernels and other vegetable products of a kind used primarily for human food. Their importation can be effected only under the authority of an import licence issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and, additionally, under the terms set out in Part II, § 3 and 5.
12.13-12.14 Cereal straw and husks; hay, all kinds of clover, lupines, forage kale, vetches and similar forage products. Their importation can be effected only under the authority of an import licence issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and, additionally, under the terms set out in Part II, § 3 and 5.
12.11 For narcotics, see Part II, § 5.
Their importation is either prohibited or subject to regulations.
Birdlime used in making live twig. Their importation is subject to import licensing regulations.
Opium. See Part II, § 5.
15.07-15.15
Their importation is either prohibited or subject to regulation.
Animal or vegetable oils and fats, wholly or partly hydrogenated or solidified, or hardened by any other process whether or not refined, but not further prepared.
Fixed vegetable oils, fluid or solid, crude, refined or purified, other than linseed oil and castor oil.
Margarine, imitation lard and other prepared edible fats.
Their importation is subject to terms and conditions set out in Part II, § 2.
All goods of this kind. Their importation is subject to terms and conditions set out in Part II, § 2.
All goods are subject to hygiene inspection.
19.01-19.02
Preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt extract, ice-cream powder, other than those of a kind used exclusively as baby or infant foods.
Macaroni; spaghetti and similar products.
Preparations known as cheese puffs, chipitos and similar products.
Bread, biscuits and cakes and similar products.
Subject to import licensing regulations and to hygiene inspection.
Preparation of vegetable, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants, including olives and leguminous vegetables and juices of vegetables and fruits. Subject to import licensing regulations and to hygiene inspection.
Extracts, essences or concentrates of coffee and preparations with a basis of those extracts, essences or concentrates.
Preparations containing tomato.
Chicken broths in cubes and dried soups.
Ice-creams, ice-cream powder and other preparations suitable for the manufacture of ice-cream.
Table jellies. Concentrated preparations for the industrial production of soft drinks. Powders and
concentrates for the production of soft drinks and food with a basis of milk, milk substitutes and
preparations for the decoration of sweets. Saccharine tablets and sachets presented as medicine are subject to licence from the Ministry of Health.
22.01-22.09 Beverages, spirits, vinegar and substitutes for vinegar. Subject to import licensing regulations and to hygiene inspection.
Residues and waste from the food industries.
Prepared animal food other than products of heading 23.01.
Subject to import licensing regulations and to terms set out in Part II, § 2.
Salt, including rock salt, sea salt and table salt. Pure sodium chloride, except prepared cattle lick.
Gypsum, anhydrite, gypsum calcined.
Quicklime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide.
All kinds of cement.
Subject to import licensing regulations.
Coal, solid fuels manufactured from coal in the shape of briquettes, ovoids and similar forms.
Lignite whether or not agglomerated.
Coke and semi-coke of coal, of lignite or of peat, whether or not agglomerated. Retort carbon.
Pitch and pitch coke, obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars.
Petroleum oil, partly refined, including topped crudes. Kerosene, jet fuel, white spirit, diesel oil and fuel oil and other similar petroleum oils.
Petroleum bitumen, petroleum coke and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals.
Natural asphalt, bituminous or oil shale and tar sands and asphaltic rocks.
Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt, on petroleum asphalt or asphalt from mineral bitumen or petroleum bitumen (eg bituminous mastics, cut-backs).
2804.10-
Carbon dioxide in gas form.
2840.11-
Borates and perborates.
Organic chemicals, except naphthalene (heading 29.02), saccharine (heading 29.25), vitamins and hormones (headings 29.36 and 29.37), glycosides, natural or reproduced by synthesis (heading
29.38), vegetable alkaloids (heading 29.39) and antibiotics (heading 29.41).
All products of this kind. Their importation is subject to the conditions set out in Part II, § 6.
31.02-31.05
Fertilisers, excluding those in the shape of tablets, lozenges and similar prepared forms.
Subject to import licensing regulations issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Surface active preparations and washing preparations.
Rennet powder.
36.01-36.04 Explosives and pyrotechnic products.
36.05 3605.00 Matches. Also subject to the terms set out in Part II, § 7. Matches of white or yellow phosphorous are absolutely prohibited.
Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products, plant-growth regulations, disinfectants and similar products.
They are subject on importation to inspection by a Government agricultural officer.
39.21 Foam or sponge sheets, plates or strips (artificial sponge).
40.11-40.12 Rubber tyres for motor vehicles, as follows:
a without indication of the mark or the name of the manufacturers or bearing indications which are illegible, imperfect or altered;
b used, including vulganized and re-grooved;
c new, with indication "sub-standard", "re-graded", "D/A", "second or third quality", "maximum speed" or similar descriptions or indications.
40.15 Rubber gloves.
41.01-41.15 Articles admitted without conditions.
42.01-42.06 Articles admitted without conditions.
43.01-43.04 Articles admitted without conditions.
Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated.
Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of its bark or merely roughed down and wood roughly squared or half-squared but not further worked.
Railway or tramway sleepers of wood.
Wood sawn length-wise, sliced or peeled but not further prepared, of a thickness exceeding 5 mm.
Wood sawn length-wise, sliced or peeled but not further prepared, of a thickness not exceeding
5 mm. Veneer sheets of a thickness not exceeding 5 mm.
Wood (including blocks and strips for parquet of wood block flooring, not assembled), planed, tongued, grooved, rebated and the like.
Reconstituted wood, being wood shavings, wood chips, wood flour or other ligneous waste agglomerated with natural or artificial resins or other organic binding substances, in sheets, blocks or the like.
Sheets for plywood and similar laminated wood products.
Packing cases, crates and parts thereof, of wood.
Builders' carpentry and joinery (including prefabricated and sectional buildings and assembled parquet flooring panels).
Wood marquetry and inlaid wood.
Boxes, bags and other packing containers, of paper or paperboard.
49.01-49.03
49.04-49.06
49.08-49.11
Copyright works in respect of which the owner of the copyright has given notice to the Director of Customs and Excise that he is desirous that copies of such works shall not be imported.
Any book or other publication giving instructions regarding the construction, operation, maintenance or care of any firearms, other than a harpoon gun to be used for fishing purposes, is prohibited unless under the authority of a special permit issued by the Ministry of Interior (excluding the books or publications imported by the Police Force, or any department of the Government).
Articles which resemble any coins in current use in the Republic or in any other country and any
goods or articles bearing any impression, presentation or design in imitation of any current note, bank note or coin in current use in the Republic or in any other country.
False or counterfeit currency notes resembling or apparently intended to resemble or to pass for any currency notes for the time being current in the Republic, or for the currency notes of any other State. Counterfeit stamps, and dies, plates and instruments for making such stamps.
Raw cotton, including carded or combed.
Made-up fishing nets and hunting nets.
61.01-61.14
Undergarments, outer-garments and other garments of all textile materials of chapters 61 and 62.
Socks and stockings of all kinds.
62.01-62.11
Bed, table, toilet and kitchen linen of all textile materials excluding those made from lace.
Sacks of a kind used for the packing of goods.
Hunting nets.
Footwear and parts thereof.
69.07-69.08
Bowls for fish and decorative plants.
Bulbs and lamps.
Articles, trinkets or ornaments which resemble any coins in current use in the Republic, or in any other country and any goods or articles bearing an impression, presentation or design in imitation
of any coin in current use in the Republic or in any other country.
False or counterfeit coin resembling or apparently intended to resemble or to pass for any coin for the time being current in the Republic, or for the coin of any other State.
Imported only under the Authority of licence issued by the Central Bank of Cyprus.
Iron or steel rods, galvanized corrugated sheets, plates and wires.
72.06-72.07
72.10-72.19
Parts of cast iron for cement pipes.
Scaffolding made from iron or steel pipes. Greenhouses.
Casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers of sheet or plate iron or steel, of a description commonly used for the conveyance or packing of goods excluding cans of a kind normally used for the canning of fruit or vegetables or juices of fruit or vegetables.
Containers for compressed or liquefied gas.
73.13-73.14
Netting wire, fencing wire and wire meshes. Grill of iron or steel of the type used in constructionalworks.
Wire nails.
Wood screws, self-tapping screws and metal drive screws.
Gas space heater and parts thereof.
Buckets of iron or steel.
73.25-73.26
Iron or steel castings and forgings, whether in the rough state or worked.
Wire nails of iron or steel, with heads of copper.
Rods and bars, angles, profiles and cuttings of aluminium.
Aluminium plates, sheets worked.
Pipes and pipe of aluminium, hollow rods and bars of aluminium.
81.01-81.13 Articles admitted without conditions.
82.11 8211.92 Daggers are absolutely prohibited.
83.02 Hinges of types normally used for doors and windows of buildings; mechanisms for sliding doors.
83.09 All types of bottle stoppers.
83.11 Wire, rods, tubes, plates, electrodes and similar products of base metal, coated or stuffed with flux material, of a kind used for soldering.
Producer gas and water gas generators, with or without purifiers. Acetylene gas generators (water process) and similar gas generators, with or without purifiers.
Pumps of all kinds for liquids, other than those used for the retail distribution of beer or petroleum products or for motor vehicles.
Air and gas compressors and accessories thereof, other than hand operated.
Furnace burners for liquid fuel for pulverised solid fuel or for gas. Mechanical stockers, mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances.
Industrial and laboratory furnaces and ovens, non-electric.
Calendering and similar rolling machines and cylinders thereof.
Air, oil and fuel filters for motor vehicles.
Machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers. Machinery for filling, closing, sealing, capsuling or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers. Other packing or wrapping machinery. Machinery for aerating beverages. Dish washing machinery, non-domestic.
Weighing machinery, balances and weights of all kinds. Accessories thereof.
84.29-84.30
Excavating, levelling, tamping, boring and extracting machinery, stationary or mobile.
Presses, crushers and other machinery, of a kind used in wine-making, cider-making, fruit juice preparation or the like.
Machinery of a kind used in the bread grain milling industry, for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables.
Machinery of a kind used in the following food or drink industries, namely, bakery, confectionery, chocolate manufacture, macaroni, ravioli or similar cereal food manufacture, the preparation of meat, fish, fruit or vegetables, sugar manufacture or brewing.
Machinery for making or finishing cellulosic pulp paper or paperboard.
Paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds. Other machinery for making-up paper pulp, paper or paperboard.
84.44-84.45
Machinery for extruding man-made textile materials.
84.45-84.47
Weaving machines, knitting machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or not; machines for preparing yarns for use on such machines, including warping and warp-sizing machines.
84.48-84.49
Machines of a kind used for processing natural or man-made textile fibres; textile spinning and twisting machines; textile doubling, throwing and reeling (including well-winding machines). Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of headings Nos 84.44–84.49 (eg dobbies, jacquards, automatic stop motions and shuttle-changing mechanisms).
Machinery for the manufacture or finishing of felt in the piece or in shapes, including felt hat-making machines and hat-making blocks.
84.50-84.51
Machinery for washing, cleaning, drying, bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing or coating textile yarns, fabrics or made-up textile articles (including laundry and dry-cleaning machinery); fabric folding, reeling or cutting machines; machines of a kind used in the manufacture of linoleum or other floor coverings for applying the paste to the base fabric or other support; machines of a type used for printing a repetitive design, repetitive words or overall colour on textiles, leather wallpaper, wrapping paper, linoleum or other materials and engraved or etched plates, blocks or rollers thereof. (Excludingwashing, ironing and drying machines used for domestic purposes and parts thereof.)
Sewing machines for industrial use, furniture specially designed for these machines.
Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather (including boot and shoe machinery).
Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines of a kind used in metallurgy and in metal foundries.
Machine tools for working metal, stone, ceramics, concrete. asbestos-cement and similar mineral
materials or for working glass in the cold.
Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding or mixing earth, stone, ores or other substances. Machinery for agglomerating, moulding or shaping solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or paste form. Machinery for forming foundry moulds of sand.
Glass-working machines, machines for assembling electric filament and discharge lamps and electronic and similar tubes and valves.
Moulding boxes for metal foundry. Moulds of a type used for metal, for metallic carbides, for glass, for mineral materials, for rubber or for artificial plastic materials.
Pressure regulating or reducing valves for "gas clocks".
85.01-85.04
Electric motors, generators, converters (rotary or static), transformers, rectifier and rectifying apparatus; inductors.
Industrial or laboratory electric (including induction or di-electric) furnaces, ovens and heating equipment. Electric laser welding and cutting machines and apparatus.
Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including such apparatus for carrier – current line systems. See Part II, § 9.
Radio control models of the type used for the control of recreational models or garage doors, etc.
Under the Authority of licence issued by the Ministry of Communications and Works.
Lightening arresters.
Signal generators, electrical blasting and dynamiting sets.
In addition to the import licence issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, a licence issued by the Ministry of Interior is also required.
87.08 Wheels with used tyres. Safety belts.
89.01-89.08 Ships, boats and floating structures.
93.01-93.07 All articles are either absolutely prohibited or subject to regulations.
Firearms of all descriptions (excluding harpoon throwing guns) and parts thereof; all kinds of ammunition and parts thereof.
Articles which are not absolutely prohibited are subject to import licensing regulations issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and also to special permit issued by the Ministry of Interior. See Part II, § 7.
94.01-94.03 Furniture and parts thereof.
94.06 Greenhouses of any material.
95.03 Balloons.
95.07 Lime twigs for catching wild birds.
97.01-97.06 Subject, on their importation, to the terms set out in Part II, § 8.
a There is a general prohibition on the importation of animals and animal products. Subject to the terms and conditions of special permits issued by the Director of Veterinary Services, the following may be imported:
– animals and poultry for breeding purposes;
– dogs, cats, tropical fish, parrots and birds.
b Also subject to import licensing regulations, issued by the Minister of Commerce and Industry. c Leeches and silkworms are absolutely prohibited.
2. Products of animal origin intended for consumption by humans or pet animals
As a general rule, their importation is subject:
a to the terms and conditions of special permits issued by the Director of Veterinary Services;
b to import licensing regulations issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry;
c to special provisions of the Health Authorities;
d to current hygiene and health namely:
– satisfactory hygiene and health inspection;
– submission of a hygiene or health certificate, issued by the competent authority of the country of origin.
3. Plants and plant products
As a general rule, the importation of the products of this kind (for example dried beans and dried peas Tariff Heading 07.13, seed potatoes Tariff heading 07.01.10, raw vegetables Tariff Heading 07.09, mushrooms 07.09-12) is subject to the conditions formulated by the Ministry of Agriculture and is restricted unless accompanied by an international Phytosanitary Certificate. On their importation the products under reference must be examined by an official of the Ministry of Agriculture (Phytopathology Department).
4. Edible fruit or nuts; peel of citrus, fruit or melons
All products of this kind are subject on importation to import licensing regulations and also to hygiene and health inspection. They must also be accompanied by an International PhytosanitaryCertificate.
Dangerous drugs, including inter alia the following, are absolutely prohibited unless imported under licence issued by the Ministry of Health:
a prepared opium;
b other drugs; including raw opium, coca leaves; poppy straw; cannabis resin and all preparations of which cannabis resin forms the base.
As a general rule Dangerous Drugs can be imported by authorized persons for pharmaceutical purposes and must ALWAYS be accompanied by a permit which is issued by the appropriate authority in the exporting country (and is included in the package containing the drugs) and also by a permit isued by the Cyprus Ministry of Health.
The importation of pharmaceutical products and poisons is subject to the following conditions:
a they must be registered products according to the provisions of the Pharmaceutical Products Law and relevant regulations;
b they must be imported by professional persons and bodies;
c they must be accompanied by a licence issued by the Pharmacy Board or by the Ministry of Agriculture (Veterinary
Services), as the case may be.
7. Arms and ammunition, parts and accessories thereof
i The following articles are absolutely prohibited:
a firecrackers;
b any weapon (including daggers of whatever description, designed for the discharge of any noxious liquid, gas or other thing, or any ammunition containing or designed or adapted to contain any such noxious thing;
c air guns, air pistols and air rifles of a calibre exceeding 0.177 inches (0.45 cm);
d rifles and repeating firearms;
e shotguns (automatic; semi-automatic; repeating; automatic and repeating; semi-automatic and repeating)
ii Ammunitions and explosives and firearms the importation of which is not absolutely prohibited (as above) are subject to import licence issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industryand also to a special permit issued by the Ministry of Interior.
8. Antiques of an age exceeding 100 years
Goods may be accepted as antiques of an age exceeding 100 years (and thus classified under Tariff Heading 97.06) if they are accompanied by a documentary evidence to that effect from a Government competent authority from the country of origin or from the Cyprus Department of the Antiquities.
9. Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including such apparatus for carrier – current line systems
The importation of all goods which are illustrated below can be effected only in cases in which their supporting invoices are endorsed to that effect by the Ministry of Communications and Works and/or by the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority.
List of telecommunications equipment requiring import approval by the CY.T.A.
– Telephone instruments
– Telephone answering devices
– Telephone diallers
– Telephone call charge indicators
– Telephone barring devices
– Coin payphones
– Card phones
– Credit card phones
– Cordless telephones
– Mobile radiotelephones
– Radiotelephones
– Radio-pagers
– Key systems
– Switchboards
– Private automatic branch exchanges
– Multiplexing/Demultiplexing devices
– Telegraphic concentrators
– Telex units
– Telex box
– Teletex box
– Teleprinters
– Facsimile machines
– Telemetering equipment
– Telecommand equipment
– Alarm devices
– TV receive only satellite earth station
– Receive only satellite earth station
– Transmit/Receive satellite/earth station
List of telecommunications equipment requiring import and use licence by the Ministry of Communications and Works
– Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus not incorporating dials or keyboards
– Radio navigational aid apparatus
– Radar apparatus and radio remote control apparatus. Parts thereof
– Radio remote control apparatus and model control apparatus
– Wireless alarm devices
– TV receive only satellite earth station1
– Receive only satellite earth station and transmit/receive satellite earth station1
1 Import licence required from both the Ministry of Communications and Works and CY.T.A.
N.B. Cyprus has not published Part III.