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Advantages
What can be sent
- Food in factory packing with the total weight up to 10 kg
- Cosmetics: nail polishes, varnishes and dyes, and cosmetic lotions
- Household chemical agents and cleaning agents if the manufacturer and ingredients are indicated on the packing
- New batteries and storage cells (except for lead acid ones) in factory packing, with closed contacts
- Digital storage devices or flash drives without passwords
- Dietary supplements, vitamins
What cannot be sent
- Dangerous goods: weapons, flammable liquids and solids, aerosols, gases and deodorants
- Works of art: paintings, stamps, antique books, icons
- Foodstuffs made of animal products, as well as food products requiring specific temperature or perishable products
- Jewelry and precious metals
- If, during the inspection of the shipment, a customs officer finds goods that are not accepted for transportation, the parcel will be returned at the sender's expense
Postal item customs clearance in Ukraine
- Parcel cost: up to €150
No taxes are charged
- Parcel cost: over €150
- 1Import duty: 10 % of excess over €150
- 2VAT: 20 % of the delivery cost (excess over €150 + import duty
- 3Customs brokerage services
Calculation example
The goods cost €200. The total customs payments will be:
- 1import duty = (€200 - €150) × 10 % = €5
- 2VAT = (€200 - €150 + €5) × 20% = €11
Total tax charged: €5 + €11 = €16
Examples of customs payments calculations for deliveries to Ukraine
EXAMPLE 1
I am sending my sister a jacket, a portable speaker and her driving license. The jacket costs €50, and the portable speaker costs €35. The total price is €85.
Customs duties will not be charged.EXAMPLE 2
I am selling clothes to a buyer in Ukraine. All the items are new, have price tags on, and factory packing is intact. The total price is under €150.
Customs duties will not be charged.EXAMPLE 3
I am sending my daughter a suitcase of her personal items: dresses, pullovers, shoes and make-up products. These are personal belongings, but they cost more than €150 in total.
Customs duties will be charged.
This may happen if a customs officer finds a violation:
- 1The postal item content differs from the list indicated in the declaration
- 2The declared value differs from the actual one
- 3The parcel contains a commercial batch: more than 3 identical goods were sent (e.g., 5 watches, 4 pairs of shoes, etc.)
- 4The parcel contains goods that are not accepted for transportation
- 5Over the past month, the recipient already received international deliveries with a total value over €150
- Items allowed to be sent to Ukraine without duties and VAT
1. Electric generators:
- Product
Gasoline engine generators with a capacity exceeding 7.5 kVA (electric generator sets with a spark-ignition piston engine)
AC generators with a capacity exceeding 750 kVA (synchronous generators), except for photoelectric generators
- HS code
8502 20 40 90
8502 20 60 90
8502 20 80 908501 64 00 00
2. Power inverters, rectifiers, converters
- Product
Inverters, rectifiers, converters (except for inverter welding machines
- HS code
8504 40 84 00
8504 40 88 00
8504 40 90 00
3. Lithium batteries:
- Product
- 1Lithium-ion batteries with a capacity from 200 Ah (Li-ion, LiFePO4, LiFe, LFP, etc.),
- 2Charging stations with a capacity exceeding 300 W (power storage units)
- HS code
8507 60 00 00
4. Turbines and other engines:
- Product
Water steam turbines and other steam turbines
Hydraulic turbines, water wheels, and regulators thereof (hydraulic turbines and their parts only)
Hydraulic transmission shafts
Turbojet engines, turboprop, and other gas turbines (except for turboprop and turbojet engines and parts thereof)
- HS code
8406 (except for 8406 10 00 00)
8410
8483 40 21 00
8411
❗To avoid customs duties and VAT, goods imported into Ukraine must be declared under certain HS codes.
How to send from the branch
- 1
- 2Provide information about the sender and recipient. To do so, write in Latin:
- 2.1Surname
- 2.2Name
- 2.3Email
- 2.4Phone number
- 2.5Branch number or full address of the recipient in Ukraine
- 3
- 4Hand over the shipment to the branch operator in an open form.
In accordance with the requirements of international transportation, Nova Post employees have to check the contents for goods that are not accepted for transportation.
If the shipment is packaged, the operator must open it. Original packaging is an exception. - 5Pay for delivery and additional services you've chosen: for example, if you've decided to choose packaging.
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