Send Cosmetics (Commercial) → 🇨🇴 Colombia
Can I post Cosmetics (Commercial) to Colombia?
Personal-quantity cosmetics can be posted to Colombia; product registration applies to selling, not to personal parcels.
Personal-use quantities; bulk or repeated identical shipments are treated as commercial imports
- Commercial invoice or proof of purchase showing the transaction value
Required at the destination customs authority
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Posting cosmetics to Colombia in personal quantities is permitted — registration and notification regimes govern marketing cosmetics, not personal parcels. Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales (DIAN) applies the ordinary parcel framework to an accurate CN22/CN23 declaration: import VAT/GST at 19% applies above the exemption threshold, plus duty on above-threshold consignments. Postal and courier shipments up to USD 200 value from countries with a free-trade agreement with Colombia enter duty-free. Above USD 200 (or from non-FTA origins), the 10% Plan Vallejo simplified duty plus 19% VAT applies. Aerosols and nail varnish are dangerous-goods limited quantities for air mail; bulk or repeated identical parcels are treated as unregistered commercial imports.
Keep parcels to personal quantities and declare contents specifically ('face cream', not 'gift'). Check carrier rules for aerosols and nail varnish — they are the commonly refused items in this class.
Personal-use quantities; bulk or repeated identical shipments are treated as commercial imports
- —Commercial invoice or proof of purchase showing the transaction value
Servientrega and 4-72 (Servicios Postales Nacionales) handle postal inbound clearance under DIAN supervision at Bogotá, Medellín, Cartagena and Barranquilla. DIAN's courier regime (Tráfico Postal y Envíos Urgentes) covers consignments up to USD 2,000 per shipment with simplified duty (10% flat for personal use, plus 19% IVA); above USD 2,000, formal entry through SYGA (DIAN's customs system) applies. Strictly prohibited postal items: counterfeit branded goods, currency / monetary instruments without declaration, narcotic substances, firearms / ammunition, hazardous materials, anti-state publications. Cash declarations on arriving parcels above USD 10,000-equivalent must be filed via the cross-border movement form.
Sending Cosmetics (Commercial) to other countries
Cosmetics (Commercial)
🇺🇸 United States
Personal-quantity cosmetics can be posted to United States; product registration applies to selling, not to personal parcels.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Personal-quantity cosmetics can be posted to United Kingdom; product registration applies to selling, not to personal parcels.
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🇨🇦 Canada
Personal-quantity cosmetics can be posted to Canada; product registration applies to selling, not to personal parcels.
Cosmetics (Commercial)
🇦🇺 Australia
Personal-quantity cosmetics can be posted to Australia; product registration applies to selling, not to personal parcels.
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🇳🇿 New Zealand
Personal-quantity cosmetics can be posted to New Zealand; product registration applies to selling, not to personal parcels.
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🇹🇭 Thailand
Personal-quantity cosmetics can be posted to Thailand; product registration applies to selling, not to personal parcels.