Tangbuy Prohibited Items List

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Prohibited and Restricted Items

Firearms and Ammunition

Firearms (including imitations, main parts and components)

For example, pistols, rifles, submachine guns, riot guns, air guns, hunting guns, sports guns, anesthesia injection guns, steel ball guns, tear gas guns, sights, red dots, magnifying lenses, holographic lenses, gun-shaped or weapon-shaped items (appearing as guns, bullets, grenades, toy guns, weapon-shaped keychains, etc. under the X-ray machine), etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the public security organs or destroy

Ammunition (including imitations)

For example, bullets, bombs, grenades, rocket bombs, illuminating bombs, incendiary bombs, smoke bombs, tear gas bombs, poison gas bombs, landmines, grenades, gunpowder, grenade-shaped items or toys, etc.

Controlled Devices

Controlled knives

For example, daggers, triangular scrapers, spring knives, self-locking spring knives (switchblades), similar single-edged (axes), double-edged, triangular pointed knives, Tibetan knives, waist knives, boot knives, sabers, butterfly knives, belt buckle knives, sword sticks, hand stabs, Cuban rattans, claw knives, daggers, bayonets, trench warfare knives, boot knives, gravity knives, daggers, bayonets, trench warfare knives, boot knives, gravity knives, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the public security organs or destroy

Other Controlled Instruments

For example, crossbows, tear gas devices, tear gas guns, electric shock devices, handcuffs, imitation weapons, nunchucks, anti-wolf devices, brass knuckles, military shovels, police batons, police electric shock devices, military or police daggers, handcuffs, thumb cuffs, ankle cuffs, tear gas sprays, bows, arrows (with or without heads), saws, imitation weapons, fish forks, needles, bows, arrows (with or without heads), etc.

Undeliverable

Explosive Materials

Blasting Equipment

For example, ammonium nitrate explosives, TNT, passivated hexogen, plastic explosives, TNT-hexogen explosives, ammonium nitrate-TNT explosives, fuses, detonating cords, detonators, electric detonators, pull-type detonators, blasting agents, blasting perforators, blasting cutters, cratering devices and blasting cylinders, initiators, generator-type initiators, capacitor-type initiators, remote-controlled initiators, blasting tools, blasting backpacks, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the public security organs or destroy

Fireworks and Firecrackers

For example, fireworks, firecrackers, firecracker strings, snap pops, pull pops, smash pops, colored powder bombs, black gunpowder, fireworks powder, starting gunpowder, fuses, etc.

Undeliverable

Other Explosive Materials

For example, propellers, propellant charges, nitrocellulose, electric igniters, airbags (containing explosives), etc.

Undeliverable

Compressed and Liquefied Gases and Their Containers

Flammable Gases

For example, hydrogen, methane, ethane, butane, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, ethylene, propylene, acetylene, lighters, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the public security organs or destroy

Toxic Gases

For example, tear gas, pepper spray, carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, chlorine gas, coal gas, liquid ammonia, chloromethane, mixtures of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, etc.

Explosive or Suffocating, Combustion-supporting Gases

For example, medical oxygen cylinders, personal medical oxygen devices containing liquid oxygen, dry ice, thermal insulation packaging containing frozen liquid nitrogen, chemical oxygen, nitrogen, helium, neon, aerosols, mousse sprays, sunscreen sprays, hair sprays, hydrocarbon-containing hair curlers, aerosols, sprayers, compressed gas tanks, etc.

Pressure Vessels and Accessories

For example, small gas cylinders for mechanical prostheses, life jackets, life vests, avalanche rescue backpacks, small gas cylinders for other devices, sealed CO2 gas cylinders, laughing gas cylinders (nitrous oxide N2O), foaming agents, aerosols, mousse sprays, hair sprays, gas canisters for lighters, etc.

Flammable Substances

Pressure Vessels and Accessories

For example, oil, permeation devices for calibrating air quality monitoring equipment, camping stoves (containing flammable liquid fuels), gasoline, diesel, kerosene, tung oil, acetone, ether, paint, raw lacquer, benzene, alcohol, pine resin oil, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the public security organs or destroy

Flammable Gases

Inflatable balls, e-cigarettes/accessories, etc. (such as a small number of ocean balls, non-celluloid table tennis balls, etc.)

Water-reactive Flammable Substances

For example, sodium, potassium, lithium, rubidium, cesium, zinc powder, magnesium powder, calcium carbide (calcium carbide), sodium cyanide, potassium cyanide, etc.

Flammable Solids

For example, various kinds of fire sources (matches, lighters, igniters, lighter fuels, lighter inflators), fuse cords, ignition devices, red phosphorus, sulfur, aluminum powder, flash powder, solid alcohol, matches, ten-thousand-match sticks, windproof matches, activated carbon, smoke cakes, magnesium powder, magnesium rods, incense, candles, etc.

Spontaneous Combustion Substances

For example, yellow phosphorus, white phosphorus, nitrocellulose, film, titanium powder, reduced iron, reduced nickel, polymerization catalysts, metal organic compounds, triethylaluminum, tributylboron, tung oil ingredients (such as oilcloth, oil silk, oilpaper, lacquer cloth, wax cloth, wax tubes, etc.), oil-impregnated metal chips; oil-impregnated cotton, linen, hair, rags or paper scraps, mica tape; linseed oil, perilla oil, activated carbon, soot, metal powder, sodium sulfide, coal powder, rubber powder, coal powder, liquid hydrogen cyanide, benzoic acid, fumaric acid (fumaric acid, trans-butenedioic acid), maleic acid (maleic acid, cis-butenedioic acid), phthalic anhydride (phthalic anhydride), nitrocellulose, celluloid, nitroglycerin, etc.

Pure Electric Items

Pure Battery Items

1. Independent batteries, dry batteries, button batteries, notebook batteries, supporting batteries, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to public security organs, industry and commerce administration, etc., or destroyed

2. High-power battery packs such as balance cars

Capacitor Items

Capacitors, electrolytic capacitors

Electric Vehicles

Balance cars, unicycles, electric skateboards, wind and fire wheels, intelligent mobility aids, somatosensory cars, thinking cars, camera cars, electric bicycles and other lithium battery-powered mobile auxiliary tools

Valuable Items and Illegal Counterfeit Items

Precious Metal Products and Other Valuable Items

Such as gold, silver, platinum, gems, jewels, pearls, ivory, commemorative banknotes, commemorative coins, cultural relic, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to public security organs, industry and commerce administration, etc., or destroyed

Illegal Counterfeit Items

For example, illegally counterfeited currencies, certificates, official seals, casino chips, dice, commemorative coins, banknotes, etc.

Food and Daily Necessities Related Items

Dairy Products

Milk (milk powder), dairy drinks and cream. Import to Hong Kong and Macao requires the health certificate issued by the foreign health authority and the prior permission before import

Undeliverable

Hand over to the public security, environmental protection, health and epidemic prevention, safety production supervision and management and other departments, or destroy

Fresh and Perishable Items, Dairy Products and Other Items

More than 200ML of honey, eggs, wine, sugar, food, etc.

Frozen Fresh Meat

Such as chilled beef, frozen beef, chilled pork, frozen pork, chilled chicken, frozen chicken, etc.

Goods Related to the National Economy and People's Livelihood and Subject to State Trading Control

Such as corn, oil, soy sauce, salt, etc.

Other Dangerous Goods

Oxidizing Agents and Peroxides

For example, permanganates, potassium permanganate, perchlorates, hydrogen peroxide, sodium peroxide, potassium peroxide, lead peroxide, chlorates, bromates, nitrates, hydrogen peroxide, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the public security, environmental protection, health and epidemic prevention, safety production supervision and management and other departments, or destroy

Toxic Substances

For example, arsenic, arsenic trioxide, mercury compounds, thallium compounds, cyanide, selenium powder, phenol, mercury, highly toxic pesticides, etc.

Biochemical Products, Infectious and Infectious Substances

For example, germs, anthrax, parasites, excreta, medical waste, bones, animal organs, limbs, untreated animal skins, untreated animal bones, etc.

Radioactive Substances

For example, radioactive isotope cardiac pacemakers, radioactive agents, chemical preparation monitoring equipment (containing radioactive substances), uranium, cobalt, radium, plutonium, etc.

Corrosive Substances

For example, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, batteries, sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, mercury thermometers, mercury thermometers, mercury barometers, dental amalgams, mercury, etc.

Drugs and Drug-taking Tools, Illegally Used Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Drugs, Illegally Used Precursor Chemicals

Drugs, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Drugs

For example, drugs, opium (including poppy shells, flowers, buds, leaves), morphine, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine (ice), ketamine, methcathinone, amphetamine, sodium amide, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the public security, environmental protection, health and epidemic prevention, safety production supervision and management and other departments, or destroy

Precursor Chemicals

For example, piperonal, safrole, sassafras oil, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, hydroxylamine, oximino ketone, phenylacetic acid, brominated phenylacetone, acetic anhydride, toluene, acetone, drug-taking tools: such as ice pots, etc.

Illegal Publications, Printed Matter, Audio-visual Products and Other Propaganda Materials

Illegal Publications, Printed Matter, Audio-visual Products and Other Propaganda Materials

For example, printed matter, film, photos, records, films, audio tapes, video tapes, laser discs, computer storage media and other items harmful to China's politics, economy, culture, and morality

Undeliverable

Hand over to national security, public security, press and publication departments, or destroyed

Documents, Materials and Other Items Involving State Secrets

For example, manuscripts, printed matter, film, photos, records, films, audio tapes, video tapes, laser discs, computer storage media and other items involving state secrets, etc

Spy Special Equipment

Spy Special Equipment

For example, hidden listening devices, photographic devices, burst transceivers, one-time codebooks, secret writing tools, electronic monitoring and interception equipment used for obtaining intelligence, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to State security organs, or destroyed

Infringing Intellectual Property Rights and Counterfeit and Shoddy Items

Infringing Intellectual Property Rights and Counterfeit and Shoddy Items

For example, infringement of patents, trademarks, copyrights, audio and video products;

Counterfeit and shoddy food, medicines, children's products, electronic products, cosmetics, textiles, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to public security organs, industry and commerce administration, etc., or destroyed

Animals and Plants and Their Products

Plants and Plant Products, Plant Specimens

Flowers, fruits, vegetables, seeds, plant specimens, pinecones, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the relevant departments or destroy

Animals and Animal Products, Animal Specimens

Shells, crabs, animal specimens, furs, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the relevant departments or destroy

Endangered Wild Animals and Plants and Their Products, Animal and Plant Specimens

For example, endangered and precious animals, plants (including specimens) and their seeds and breeding materials, ivory and its products, tiger bones and their products, rhino horns and their products, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the relevant departments or destroy

Food, Medicine or Other Items that are Harmful to Human and Animal Health, Come from Epidemic Areas and Can Spread Diseases

For example, (food, medicine or other items that are harmful to human and animal health, come from epidemic areas and can spread diseases) food, medicine or other drugs, food, feed, tea, mugwort, seeds, live bait (except bionic bait), live organisms, bones, plants, feathers (except ordinary feathers), live animals and plants, and perishable items (such as fresh fish, fresh meat, etc.), bones (including incinerated ashes), untreated animal skins, untreated animal bones, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the relevant departments or destroy

Other Prohibited Items for Delivery

Damaged or Leaking Goods

For example, improperly packaged (damaged or leaking) items that may endanger personal safety, pollute or damage other goods, etc.

Undeliverable

Hand over to the relevant departments or destroy

Other Items Prohibited by Laws, Administrative Regulations, the State Council and Relevant Departments of the State Council

For example, items prohibited from being delivered and imported by each delivery country (region), other prohibited items (such as used lithium batteries, faulty lithium batteries, refurbished lithium batteries, cigarettes (including e-cigarette products and components), wine, national currency, foreign currency and its securities, radio transceivers, communication secrecy machines, precious Chinese medicinal materials, etc.

Drones, Drone-related Items

Undeliverable

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