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Information on sending a shipment to Dominican Republic

Prohibited commodities
Standard DHL prohibitions plus:
    Asbestos
    Credit card blanks (NI)
    Dangerous goods, haz. or comb. mats
    Firearms, parts of
    Ivory
    Plants
    Pornography
Certain commodities need to be accompanied by an invoice and, in some cases, additional customs documentation. Other commodities are considered as 'Documents' and only require a DHL Airwaybill to be completed. The following list explains what you need to do in order to ship various commodities.
Document Commodities
(Require a DHL Airwaybill) 		Commodities where you should contact your local customer service Department to clarify shipping requirements.

Airline tickets, blank stock (NI)
Airline tickets, issued/validated
Annual reports
Blueprints
Business cards
Cash letters (NI)
Catalogues
Charts/graphs
Cheques, cashier (NI)
Computer printouts
Credit cards (NI)
Diaries
Diplomatic mail
Invoices, not blank
Labels
Magazines, periodicals, journals
Manuals, technical
Manuscripts
Maps
Microfiche & microfilm
Music, printed or manuscript
Negatives, including x-rays, films
Newspapers
Pamphlets
Passports
Personal mail
Photographs
Photos as part of business reports
Price lists
Publications for public resale
Ship manifest-computer generated
Shipping schedules
Tapes: audio cassettes
Visa applications
 		Animal products
Animal skins
Booklets, brochures (non-adv.)
Books: hardbk/paperbk non-comm. use
Calendars
Cheques, cancelled (NI)
Coffee
Coffee samples
Communications equipment
Computer components & parts
Computer software
Cotton
Cotton seed
Diskettes
Documents, general business
Drugs: non-prescription
Drugs: prescription
Foodstuffs
Grain samples
Jewellery
Leather goods
Liquids, non-hazardous
Military equipment
Mobile phones,accessories&component
Money orders (NI)
Perishables
Personal effects
Plant products
Publication not for public resale
Radar equip.-transmitters/receivers
Seeds
Ship spares
Slides
Soil samples
Tapes: computer
Tapes: video cassettes
Tea
Telecommunications equipment
Textile articles
Tobacco
Transparencies

All other commodities should be shipped via DHL Parcel Express and should be accompanied by an Airwaybill and Invoice.
Restrictions

If your shipment exceeds any of the following limits, it may require special handling, please contact your local country customer service department.

Size : Length 118 cms (46 ins), Width 88 cms (35 ins), Height 120 cms (47 ins)
Weight : Max. weight per shipment : 250.0 kgs (551.0 lbs),
Max. weight per piece : 50.0 kgs (110.0 lbs)