These 27 Items Banned Inside Balikbayan Boxes to Philippines

These 27 Items Banned Inside Balikbayan Boxes to Philippines

It's an extraordinary inclination for a family to get that balikbayan box sent by a with respect to another country. A similar inclination reverberates on senders who feel feeling of satisfaction of conveying delight to families back home. 

Be that as it may, not all things are permitted inside the container; some are risky or infringing upon traditions laws. In this manner balikbayan box senders ought exclude them. 

The accompanying things are disallowed inside each balikbayan box sent by Filipinos abroad to agents/beneficiaries in the Philippines. 

- Alcoholic beverages

- Dismantled Auto Parts (Chop chop)

- Cultural artifacts and pottery

- Dog and cat fur

- Firearms, Explosives & Guns, including parts of

- Food products such as cheese, meat

- Hazardous Materials

- Trophies, gold, Haitian

- Meats, Livestock and poultry

- Merchandise from embargoed countries

- Textiles (roll)

- Trademarked and copyrighted articles

- Fluids and Perishable food items

- Automobiles (any parts)

- Ceramic tableware

- Defense articles or items with military or proliferation applications

- Prohibited drugs and drug paraphernalia

- Fish and wildlife

- Fruits and vegetables

- Game and hunting

- Animal hide drums

- Medication

- Pets, plants and seed, soils

- Used clothing or shoes of commercial quantity (Ukay-ukay in bales / boxes)

- Pornographic Materials

- Jewelry

- Pirated items (DVD, VCD, tapes, etc)

As indicated by Section 101 of Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines, the importation into the Philippines of the accompanying articles is restricted: 

(a) Dynamite, black powder, ammo and different explosives, guns and weapons of war, and parts thereof, with the exception of when approved by law. 

(b) Written or printed articles in any structure containing any issue upholding or affecting injustice, or insubordination, or uprising, rebellion or disruption against the Government of the Philippines, or persuasive protection from any law of the Philippines, or containing any risk to end the life of, or dispense in essence hurt upon any individual in the Philippines. 

(c) Written or printed articles, negatives or cinematographic film, photos, inscriptions, lithographs, objects, artistic creations, illustrations or other portrayal of a foul or shameless character. 

(d) Articles, instruments, medications and substances structured, proposed or adjusted for creating unlawful premature birth, or any printed issue which promotes or depicts or gives legitimately or by implication data where, how, or by whom unlawful fetus removal is delivered. 

(e) Roulette wheels, betting outfits, stacked bones, stamped cards, machines, contraption or mechanical gadgets utilized in betting or the circulation of cash, stogies, cigarettes or different articles when such dissemination is reliant on possibility, including big stake and pinball machines or comparative inventions, or parts thereof. 

(f) Lottery and sweepstakes tickets aside from those approved by the Philippine Government, ads thereof, and arrangements of illustrations in that. 

(g) Any article produced in entire or in part of gold, silver or different valuable metals or amalgams thereof, the stamps, brands or checks or which don't show the real fineness of nature of said metals or combinations. 

(h) Any defiled or misbranded articles of sustenance or any tainted or misbranded medication infringing upon the arrangements of the "Nourishment and Drugs Act". 

(I) Marijuana, opium, channels, coca leaves, heroin or some other opiates or engineered drugs which are or may henceforth be proclaimed propensity framing by the President of the Philippines, or any compound, produced salt, subordinate, or readiness thereof, with the exception of when imported by the Government of the Philippines or any individual appropriately approved by the Dangerous Drugs Board, for restorative purposes as it were. 

(j) Opium pipes and parts thereof, of whatever material. 

(k) All different articles and parts thereof, the importation of which denied by law or guidelines and guidelines issued by equipped specialist. (As revised by Presidential Decree No. 34)