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Can I send food to the United Kingdom?

Conditions apply

Yes, with conditions.

Bread, biscuits, chocolate, pasta, and packaged soups are fine from anywhere. No meat or dairy, including most from the EU. Fresh produce from outside the EU needs a plant health certificate. Couriers refuse perishables.

For every Onvoyo box: Only sealed, shop-bought, shelf-stable food. Express couriers don't carry perishable food: nothing fresh, frozen, meat, dairy or produce.

More rules for the United Kingdom

Not allowed

Meat and dairy products for personal use from most countries outside the EU

Allowed with conditions

Meat, dairy, and other animal products: From outside the EU: no meat or dairy, except powdered infant milk, infant food, or special medical food (up to 2 kg, branded and unopened). From the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein: because of animal disease outbreaks, no pork, beef, lamb, mutton, goat, venison, or products made from them, and no dairy such as cheese, milk, butter, or yogurt. Poultry, fish, eggs, and honey are allowed from those countries.
Fruit, vegetables, nuts, and seeds to eat: Allowed from the EU, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein for your own use. From elsewhere, most fresh fruit and vegetables need a phytosanitary certificate from the origin country's plant health authority. Exceptions include bananas, citrus fruit, mangoes, pineapples, dates, coconuts, peeled or processed nuts, and rice.
Pet food: From the EU: nothing containing pig, cow, sheep, goat, or deer; other pet food must be commercially packaged, up to 2 kg. From outside the EU: not allowed unless a pet needs it for health reasons and travels with it.

Quantity limits

Food (personal imports): Up to 2 kg per person of powdered infant milk, infant food, or special medical food in branded, unopened packaging. From outside the EU, up to 20 kg of fish and 2 kg of honey per person. No meat or dairy.

Before you ship to the United Kingdom

Tax-free limit: Gifts from one individual to another worth £39 (about $53) or less pay no VAT or duty, unless they are alcohol or tobacco, which always pay excise duty. There is no general tax-free limit: other goods, including your own used things sent without Transfer of Residence relief, pay VAT from the first pound. Customs duty is not charged on goods worth £135 (about $183) or less in total, except alcohol and tobacco, which pay duty at any value. The government plans to remove this £135 duty relief on a date still to be set, by October 2028 at the latest.
Receiver ID: No UK tax number is needed for a personal shipment. If you claim Transfer of Residence relief, the courier needs your ToR unique reference number for the declaration. Without a valid one, you may be billed for import duties and administration charges.
Transit: 1-3 business days from Europe; 2-4 from North America; 3-6 from Asia