BURKINA FASO
(Country code: BF)
Maximum Coverage = Maximum Declared Value for Carriage for the Priority™ Worldwide service.
Import Restrictions
Senders should determine import restrictions from the country's authorities before posting:
- books and publications in Arabic
- communications equipment
- computer components and parts
- distilling apparatus
- drugs and medicines
- medical supplies
- military equipment
- mineral waters
- personal effects
- phones and modems
- preserved plums, sardines and vegetables
- saccharine
- spirits
- telecommunications equipment
- tapes, audio and video cassettes.
Prohibited Items
In addition to items considered non-mailable matter, the following are prohibited:
- animals
- airlines tickets, blank stock
- antiques
- bullion and currency
- coin-making apparatus
- coins and medallions resembling the legal coinage
- credit card blanks
- daggers and knives
- drugs, Non-Prescription
- furs
- gambling devices
- ice, in any form
- ivory
- liquor
- liquids non hazardous
- pornography
- precious metals and stones
- soil
- trademarks, French, false or imitation, and those bearing the Red Cross or designs resembling it
- weights and measures, non-metric.
Documentation Required
Information regarding Customs can be found in "Customs Requirements" of the Canada Postal Guide.
In addition, commercial goods mailed to Burkina Faso should include an invoice and a Certificate of Origin. The addressee must obtain an import permit, where required.
The following documents are required:
1. Original Certificate
2. Original Invoice or Certified Copy
3. Phytosanitary Certificate
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