Effective April 11, 2019, the Postal Service™ is revising the Individual Country Listing for Russia in Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) to note that Russia is implementing new limits on the duty-free import of goods addressed to a private individual.
This revision is based on a formal request that Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post made through the Universal Postal Union via International Bureau Circular 170, dated November 26, 2018.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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Individual Country Listings
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Russia
Country Conditions for Mailing
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Observations
[Apply numbers 1-8 to the current entries, and combine entries 6 and 7 into one entry to read as follows (renumbering current entry 8 as entry 7):]
6. As of January 1, 2019, for postal items arriving to a private individual within a calendar month, the total duty-free value and weight import limits are 500 EUR and 31 kg (68 pounds), respectively. Customs duties apply to either the amount exceeding 500 EUR (at a rate of 30 percent) or to the weight exceeding 31 kg (at a minimum rate of 4 EUR per kg), whichever fee is larger.
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Although effective on April 11, 2019, the Postal Service will incorporate this revision into the next edition of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Marketing, 4-11-19
