Country-specific requirements – R

Thresholds for import VAT are set at 10 EUR for commercial consignments and 45 EUR for gifts between private individuals.

There is no exemption (from customs duty or VAT) for imports of tobacco, tobacco products, alcohol products, perfumes or toilet waters. However, gift consignments of alcohol, tobacco products, perfume and toilet waters are exempt, within specific allowances, from customs duty and VAT. These allowances are set out in the table below:

More information can be found on the national customs authority website www.customs.ro.

All postal items must bear complete addresses and correct postcodes to facilitate delivery.

To facilitate customs clearance and delivery, it is desirable to include the addressee's mobile telephone number and email address, if known, on the postal items.

Value up to $700 - CN 22;

Value over $700 - Parcel Despatch Note in addition to upper part of CN 22.

French or Russian as well as English.

• Articles and samples liable to Customs duty except in Small Packets;
• Ordinary and registered letters containing articles subject to Customs duty;
• See also the prohibitions listed under PARCEL POST.

Parcel Despatch Note.

French or Russian as well as English.

• Alcoholic beverages, ethanol, beer (up to 5 litres as a sample to a private company)
• All types of tobacco products and smoking mixes (excluding 1000 cigarettes or 200 cigars or tobacco 200 gr, or all above mentioned as a sample with a value no more than 500 euro)
• Ammunition (hand grenades; rocketry; torpedoes; mines; triggering devices; etc.).
• Articles and substances which have a mass casualty explosion hazard (trotyl; tetranitropentaerytrite; nitroglycerine; etc.).
• Combustible gases (gas lighters; compressed and liquified gases (propane; hydrogen; butane); varnishes and deodorants; etc.);
• Combustible liquids (gasoline; kerosene; acetone; paints; solvents; sealants; perfume; nail varnishes; etc.).
• Combustible solids (any metal powders; matches; firework sparklers; etc.).
• Corrosives (caustic potassium; mercury; accumulators; electrolytes; etc.).
• Cultural valuables
• Incombustible gases (compressed and liquified cooled gases (air; carbon dioxide; nitrogen; oxygen); etc.)
• Infectious materials
• Items containing bank notes in circulation, securities (cheques) of any kind payable to bearer or foreign currency.
• Obscene and immoral articles
• Organic peroxides (tert-butil hydroperoxide; some hardening agents; etc.).
• Other goods banned from sending by the Acts of the Universal Postal Union and customs laws of the Customs Union
• Oxidizers (ammonia-saltpeter fertilizer; ammonium nitrate; calcium chlorate; etc.).
• Perishable goods
• Potentially pathogenic and pathogenic organisms
• Precious stones in any form or condition; natural diamonds; except for jewelry
• Radioactive materials
• Substances generating combustible gas (calcium carbide; sodium; etc.).
• Substances which are capable of posing a risk of fire (gunpowder; fireworks; pyrotechnics; construction cartridges; caps; pyrotechnic squibs; etc.).
• Substances which are liable to spontaneous combustion (napalm; white and yellow phosphorus; etc.).
• Toxic and superpotent substances
• Toxic materials
• The country’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision has imposed a ban on all livestock products subject to state veterinary supervision obtained from terrestrial animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease, transported from the territory of the European Union (EU) to the Russian Federation, including the transit of such goods through Russian territory to third countries, from 20 January 2025. The ban also applies to livestock products (unprocessed and processed meat products, dairy products, feed and feed additives, etc.) sent in international postal items, whether to individuals or to legal entities.

• Apparatus and equipment for photo labs. Explosives trinitrotoluenes and dinitronaphthalenes, gunpowder, rocket fuel, ammonites, TNT charges, helexes, granulotol, alumotol, plastites, grammonites, fuses, capsules, detonating cords, fireworks, pyrotechnics, signal flares.
• Banknotes; monetory objects; travellers checks
• Central heating boilers
• IC engines; except for engines for vessels.
• Instruments; apparatus and models for demonstrational purposes
• Medical; surgical; stomatologic or veterinary furniture;barber's chairs and comparable chairs; parts
• Mowers (except for the lawn-mowers; mowers for parks or athletic fields); haymaking machinery; harvesting machines and threshing machines (devices); straw and hay press bailer machines; machines for cleaning; sorting or grading eggs; fruit or other agricultural produce.
• Sun tanning booths
• The games activated by coins; banknotes; bank cards; slugs or similar means of payment
• Tractors; special purpose motor vehicles; except for those used for transportation of goods or passengers; industrial purpose self-propelled vehicles not equipped with lifting or loading devices
• Vessels; boats and floating structures; except for the yachts and other watercrafts for leisure and sport; rowing boats and canoe.

Items sent to private persons arriving within a calendar month are duty-free if the total value of the goods does not exceed 200 EUR and the total weight does not exceed 31 kg.

If the value of the goods exceeds 200 EUR or if the weight exceeds 31 kg, customs duties will be calculated as follows:

• at a rate of 15% for the value exceeding 200 EUR, but at a minimum rate of 2 EUR per kg of the weight of the postal item.