Iraq Import Restrictions
In order to enter Iraq, certain goods are subject to specific controls and, regardless of their value and quantity, they require the consent of Iraq government, preferably, license must be obtained prior to passage through the customs, preventing the goods from being retained. On this page, you will see what kinds of items are prohibited from entering the Iraq, and which items need special documentation before exporting to Iraq.
Import regulations
The Australian Government, in response to United Nations Security Council resolutions, sanctions the export of goods and commodities to Iraq. The sanctions or exemptions may vary at any time.
Senders should determine import restrictions from Iraq authorities before posting:
- Antiques
- Cotton and cotton seed
- Fats for human consumption
- Firearms and firearm parts
- Hair-dyes containing diamine
- Medicines
- Plants and parts of plants
- Salt, unrefined
- Serums
- Weapons
- Wines, spirits, liqueurs
- Wireless apparatus and transistor receivers.
Special documentation requirements
Iraq has no current requirements for special documentation.
Prohibitions
In addition to items prohibited by Dangerous and Prohibited Goods & Packaging Post Guide and ECI International Courier Regulations, Iraq prohibits:
- Baby comforters
- Bank notes
- Balls, rubber
- Binoculars
- Cameras
- Cassettes
- Coins, counterfeit
- Currency notes or securities payable to the bearer
- Foodstuff, perishable
- Firearms
- Fruit
- Jewellery, precious stones and metals
- Laptop computers
- Lottery tickets
- Meat, non-preserved
- Mobile telephones
- Milk, condensed
- Postcards, pictorial, packages of
- Printing machines and tools
- Platinum gold or silver (whether manufactured or not)
- Shaving brushes made in Japan
- Soap
- Subversive literature
- Sweets containing alcohol
- Tea
- Travellers cheques
- Trademarks, false
- Veils, silk
- Vine leaves and cuttings
- Walkie-talkie transmitter-receivers.
