My experience is you can forget any food items via express services under the current conditions. Anything over 2-3 kg now is receiving customs inspections and requires all paperwork for full customs clearing. Ring the express services, they can tell you the real story. The laws on the books and the reality are quite different. Hand carrying it in, through the green channel, rarely raises an eyebrow if the quantity is not large (say less than 10-20 kg packed in regular baggage). We do this all the time when returning from abroad. Marshall
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:15:13 +0400 From: Den Ant <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Expat List Sending food items to Russia To: The Moscow Expat List <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Everything depends on the siza and quantity of the package. And, of course, the way you send it. By russian law, if you send by any "express" delivery, such as DHL, FedEx, USPS Premium - then these packages delivers without any customs control... OF course if they are not to big. just wright on a package that that is a present and choose delivery "from door to door". That's it. For futher and more detailed info call to Russian Customs Custome Service - they will give you more detailed answer. Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:32:56 +0100 ÐÉÓØÍÏ ÏÔ Thomas Langley <[email protected]>: > I would like to send a package containing non-perishable food items from UK to > a friend in Moscow. Contents to include things like marzipan, cake-making > ingredients, mince pies, > Question: should I expect any problems, fees or delays with customs clearance? > Russian issued Hygiene certificates? > Slow overland delivery is fine. Is it feasible? > _______________________________________________ > Expat mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat > http://www.expat.ru/forum/
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