International Post Guide - Australia Post

International Post Guide 153
JAPAN
Service Letters – Zone: Asia/Pacific Parcels – Zone: B
Usual delivery:
– see �1.8
Extra Cover to: Weight to: Extra Cover to:
ECI 1 2–4 work days $5000 1 20 kg $5000
Express Post Int’l � 3-7 work days � 1 20 kg $5000
Air Mail � 3–4 work days $5000 Registered Post Int’l �
� 20 kg $5000
3–4 work days Sea Mail �
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Confirm delivery � Registered or Extra Cover only. Valuables – see �1.4 �
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Extra Cover only. No notes. Duty-payable articles �
Perishable biological � Non-infectious only.
FaxPost bureau �
� Extra Cover only. No notes.
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1 ECI and EPI - Parcels deliver to all destinations
For articles addressed to a Post Office Box, the boxholder is notified of arrival.
Import restrictions
Senders should determine import restrictions from Japanese authorities before posting:
Animal products
Firearms, imitation
Pharmaceutical products
Plants and plant products
Resins
Rice and straw goods
Vegetables.
Special documentation
Items containing merchandise or samples require an invoice in duplicate. Articles more than
¥200,000 in value require a Certificate of Origin. Senders should clearly mark all articles with the
purpose of the shipment; for example, GIFT, MERCHANDISE, SAMPLES, or UNACCOMPANIED GOODS.
Prohibitions
In addition to items prohibited by Dangerous and Prohibited Goods & Packaging Post Guide and
ECI and EPI-Parcels Regulations (see �5.8.2), Japan prohibits:
Copyright violations
Lottery material
Counterfeit, defaced or imitation Patent violations
stamps
Publications, including video
tapes, prejudicial to public
order or morality
Trademark violations.
September 2007
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