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