International Post Guide - Australia Post
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<strong>International</strong> <strong>Post</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> 109<br />
ECUADOR<br />
Service Letters – Zone: Rest of the World Parcels – Zone: D<br />
Usual delivery:<br />
– see �1.8<br />
Extra Cover to: Weight to: Extra Cover to:<br />
ECI 1 3–5 work days $5000 1 20 kg $5000<br />
Express <strong>Post</strong> Int’l 2 5–6 work days � 1 20 kg $5000<br />
Air Mail � 6–7 work days � � 20 kg Registered <strong>Post</strong> Int’l �<br />
�<br />
6–7 work days Sea Mail �<br />
� �<br />
� 20 kg �<br />
Confirm delivery � Registered only. Valuables – see �1.4 �<br />
Duty-payable articles �<br />
�<br />
�<br />
�<br />
Perishable biological � Infectious and non-infectious not accepted – see �1.6.<br />
Fax<strong>Post</strong> bureau � Private fax machines only.<br />
1 ECI and EPI – Parcels deliver only to the places shown<br />
Ambato<br />
Bahia<br />
Chone<br />
Cuenca<br />
Esmeraldas<br />
Galapagos<br />
Guayaquil<br />
Ibarra<br />
Latacunga<br />
Loja<br />
Machala<br />
Manta<br />
Otavalo<br />
Portoviejo<br />
Quevedo<br />
Quito<br />
Riobamba<br />
Santo Domingo<br />
Tulcan<br />
ECI and EPI – Parcels do not deliver to a <strong>Post</strong> Office Box or <strong>Post</strong>e Restante (counter mail delivery).<br />
2 Express <strong>Post</strong> <strong>International</strong> - Letter service available on a non-guaranteed basis<br />
Import restrictions<br />
Senders should determine import restrictions from Ecuador authorities before posting:<br />
Cigarette papers<br />
Firearms and firearm parts<br />
Drugs and medicines Tea<br />
Ecuador requires an import permit for all commercial goods. Ecuador confiscates commercial goods<br />
unless the addressee holds an import licence.<br />
Special documentation<br />
Consular invoice<br />
Goods that exceed a value of 2000 sucres require five copies of an invoice endorsed by a Consul of<br />
Ecuador and sent separately to the addressee. Items without such an invoice pay higher duties.<br />
Health Certificate<br />
Articles containing vegetable components in any form require a Health Certificate.<br />
Prohibitions<br />
In addition to items prohibited by Dangerous and Prohibited Goods & Packaging <strong>Post</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> and<br />
ECI and EPI-Parcels Regulations (see �5.8.2), Ecuador prohibits:<br />
Absinthe<br />
Advertising containing<br />
reproductions of currency<br />
Alcoholic beverages<br />
Baby feeders with tubes<br />
Copper<br />
Erasers<br />
Firearms<br />
Fruit and seeds<br />
Gaming items<br />
Immoral or obscene material<br />
Ivory<br />
Perishable substances or<br />
foodstuffs<br />
Pharmaceutical and medical<br />
products of unknown<br />
composition<br />
Plants<br />
<strong>Post</strong>age stamps<br />
Straw hats<br />
Tobacco<br />
September 2007<br />
E
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