Valued Customers,  

 

Please view shipping guidelines, standard prohibitions and restrictions to consider when shipping items.

 

 

Restricted items

 

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE RESTRICTED BY EITHER THE FAA, US CUSTOMS, ACE EXPRESS COURIERS, OR BY TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO AUTHORITIES.

 

Ø  Matches

Ø  Tear gas or pepper spray

Ø  Wet-cell batteries

Ø  Lighters

Ø  Poisons

Ø  Ammunitions, swords and fire arms

Ø  Any item with alcohol listed as its primary ingredient

Ø  Fireworks

Ø  Weapons

Ø  Corrosive cleaning solutions

Ø  Gas

Ø  Gas powered tools

Ø  Pressure containers

Ø  Animal skins

Ø  Bamboo articles

Ø  Camouflage

Ø  Cash

Ø  Honey

Ø  Live plants and perishables

Ø  Flammable liquids or solids

These items can be shipped after being registered with Homeland Security. They are considered hazardous or dangerous goods and require special handling, packaging and paperwork. The processing and shipping of these items occur every 1-2 weeks. There are special handling and processing fees for these items.

 

These items include but are not limited to:

Ø  Personal Beauty Products

Ø  Mouthwash

Ø  Gels

Ø  Deodorants

Ø  Creams

Ø  Beauty powders

Ø  Aerosol cans

Ø  Hairspray

Ø  Sweetener, food flavoring and coloring products

Ø  Sunblock

Ø  Perfumes

Ø  Oil candles

Ø  Non-corrosive cleaning solutions

Ø  Nail polish

 

ITEMS REQUIRING SPECIAL SHIPPING LISCENSES

These items include but are not limited to:

Ø  Feathers

Ø  Refrigerators

Ø  Chillers

Ø  Freezers

Ø  Air conditioning units

Ø  Vitamins

Ø  Food supplements

Ø  Live poultry

Ø  Fish

Ø  Shrimp

Ø  Lobster

Ø  Crabmeat

Ø  Coconut in all forms including coconut seedlings, copra, desiccated coconut, coconut milk, and coconut cream (EXCLUDING Coconut oil)

Ø  Oilseed cake, meal, and other vegetable oil residues

Ø  Copra

Ø  Oilseeds, beans, nuts

Ø  Animal oils, fats and greases, unrefined

Ø  Fatty acids and solid residues from the treatment of oils and fats

Ø  Vegetable fats

Ø  Left Hand Drive vehicles

Ø  Used Right Hand Drive vehicles

Ø  Used Right Hand Drive Garbage compactors exceeding 15 tones (15000 kg) MGW

Ø  Paper for wrapping tobacco or cigarettes

Ø  Ship and boats (under 250 tones)

Ø  Parathion, ethyl

Ø  2, 4, 5_Trichlorophenyl (2, 4, 5_T)

Ø  Dichlorodiphenyl Trichloroethane (DDT)

Ø  Chlordimeform

Ø  Dibromochloropropane (DBCP)

Ø  Ethylene Dibromide (EDB)

Ø  Pentachlorophenol (PCP)

Ø  Lead Arsenate

Ø  Thallium and its salts

Ø  Aldrin, Dieldrin and Endrin

Ø  Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) and mixtures containing Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS).

Ø  Equipment requiring the use of Ozone Depleting Substances – Such as: Air or Vacuum Pumps and Compressors and their parts, Dehumidifiers, Air Conditioning Machines/Units and their parts, Refrigerators / freezers and heat pumps and their parts.

Ø  Soil, plant, plant material, seeds, etc.