New regulations for shipping goods to the United States
Beginning January 1, 2022, shipments of goods that arrive at the United States Postal Service (USPS) without a completed customs declaration and without prior electronic information about the shipment and its contents will be returned to shippers in Poland. To avoid having shipments returned from the United States to Poland, please remember to include a properly completed CN 22 or CN 23 customs declaration with these shipments.
In accordance with the provisions of the Universal Postal Union, from 1 January 2021, the data provided by senders on shipments and the customs declarations attached to them are also sent by Poczta Polska to the countries of destination of the shipments electronically.
At the same time, the "STOP" (Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention) anti-drug law came into effect in the United States, prohibiting the USPS from accepting international shipments of goods for which it does not receive electronic data from the originating country's Postal Service (POZ) on the shipments and accompanying customs declarations before their arrival in the U.S. Shipments of goods sent by the Polish Post to the US Postal Service (POZ) were exempted from the requirement to provide electronic pre-shipment data for a period of 12 months, until the end of 2021.
Poczta Polska reminds that the senders of all types of shipments with goods addressed to countries outside the European Union are obliged to complete and attach paper customs declarations CN 22 or CN 23.
Information on how to complete customs declarations can be found, among others, in the leaflet issued for customers this year by Poczta Polska and attached to this information.
