Taiwanese products have always been associated with quality and warmth, which is why many Hong Kongers enjoy purchasing "Made in Taiwan" (MIT) goods. Although travel restrictions have been lifted and people can now visit various countries and Taiwan, international online shopping remains the best option for those who cannot travel abroad or miss local products after their trips. Below is a summary of express delivery options from Taiwan to Hong Kong, prohibited items, and other international shipping guides for your reference.
Express Delivery Options from Taiwan to Hong Kong
If you wish to purchase products from Taiwan and ship them to Hong Kong, Meadow Duck can assist with placing orders and communicating with Taiwanese sellers. Afterwards, you can choose from the following express delivery services based on your needs.
1. FedEx
FedEx Taiwan offers professional and reliable shipping services from Taiwan to Hong Kong, providing customers with fast and affordable shipping options, as well as robust and secure delivery and logistics solutions. FedEx services cover the transportation of various goods, including documents, hard boxes, large parcels, and irregularly shaped items, meeting customers' demands for the highest level of service safety. FedEx Taiwan offers a wide range of services, making it convenient to air transport your parcels or documents. FedEx Taiwan also provides weight limits and comprehensive logistics solutions to ensure that customers' goods are delivered safely, timely, and completely from Taiwan to Hong Kong.
2. DHL
DHL Taiwan has steadily grown with the development of global brand operations, committing to providing customers with convenient and high-quality express services. We collaborate with DHL Taiwan to offer express services from Taiwan to Hong Kong. We provide fast and stable air express delivery, as well as professional logistics services for industrial and electronic products. DHL Taiwan's services not only guarantee the delivery of your goods to the designated location but also offer greater protection against investment risks. Additionally, we utilize optimal security technology and sophisticated transportation enterprise systems to provide customers with the safest and most reliable express services. The services provided by DHL Taiwan are highly accommodating to customer needs. Customers can use designated shipping objects or leverage DHL Taiwan's experienced import specialists, along with appropriate vehicles, to meet urgent delivery requirements. DHL Taiwan customers can also store any goods in operating centers or spaces to meet local recycling and sales needs. In summary, DHL Taiwan offers secure, reliable, and comprehensive shipping services to Hong Kong, from high-quality express services to other logistics technologies, enabling customers to manage their logistics chains more easily and achieve optimal financial technology results.
3. SF Express
SF Express Taiwan demonstrates excellent performance in its shipping services to Hong Kong, providing consumers with fast and secure parcel delivery. SF Express Taiwan's express services offer a certain level of safety and quality assurance, and more importantly, consumers can obtain reasonable fees, along with patient customer service support and assistance, ensuring that customers can safely send items to Hong Kong and neighboring areas. SF Express Taiwan also boasts an excellent logistics network, ensuring that express parcels reach their destination. Furthermore, SF Express Taiwan offers various pricing structures to meet different customer needs, allowing them to enjoy preferential prices while still receiving fast delivery services.
4. Chunghwa Post
Chunghwa Post's Taiwan to Hong Kong service is a direct postage home delivery solution combining the postal systems of Taiwan and Hong Kong, aiming to provide customers in Taiwan with fast, simple, reliable mail delivery services to Hong Kong, along with the latest postage discounts. Key features of the Taiwan to Hong Kong service include: applicability to ordinary, registered, and insured mail, and offering monthly payment and special project customer discounts. Additionally, Taiwan Post provides international mail tracking and international postage rate inquiries, as well as freight cooperation services based on open principles. Chunghwa Post's Taiwan to Hong Kong service ensures stable, secure, faster, and more convenient mail delivery from senders in Taiwan to Hong Kong, arriving accurately and on time.
Estimated Delivery Time for Parcels from Taiwan to Hong Kong
1. FedEx: Approximately 1 - 3 business days
2. DHL: Approximately 1 - 3 business days
3. SF Express: Approximately 2 - 3 business days
4. Chunghwa Post: Approximately 3 - 5 business days
Shipping Costs from Taiwan to Hong Kong
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FedEx Taiwan to Hong Kong Shipping Rates
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DHL Taiwan to Hong Kong Shipping Rates
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DHL Taiwan to Hong Kong Shipping Cost Calculator
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SF Express Taiwan to Hong Kong Shipping Rates
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Chunghwa Post Taiwan to Hong Kong Shipping Rates
*Express companies calculate based on the actual weight or volumetric weight of the parcel, whichever is higher.
*Volumetric weight calculation: Length cm x Width cm x Height cm / 6000
>>Taiwan to Hong Kong Shipping Cost Comparison
Taiwan to Hong Kong Customs Duties
Most goods imported into Hong Kong are exempt from customs duties, with the exception of four specific categories that are subject to tax: alcoholic beverages, tobacco, hydrocarbon oil, and methyl alcohol. Hong Kong Customs controls all goods entering or leaving the Hong Kong SAR by air, land, or sea, and requires verification of relevant documents, such as manifests, to clear export or import goods. Generally, using a purchasing agent service for goods can eliminate the hassle of customs declarations.
Prohibited Items from Taiwan to Hong Kong
1. FedEx Prohibited Items from Taiwan to Hong Kong
Dangerous goods are items or substances that pose a risk to health, safety, property, or the environment. These items must be properly packaged, marked, labeled, documented, handled, and delivered carefully by personnel trained in dangerous goods expertise to ensure safe delivery to their destination.
Dangerous goods are divided into nine classes, and it is important to understand which products fall into this category. While explosives or toxic items are obviously dangerous goods, some items classified as restricted may come as a surprise, such as flammable items like paint or perfume, which are classified as dangerous substances because they can pose a risk during transportation. Products containing lithium batteries, such as mobile phones or laptops, may also be restricted during delivery.
The classification of dangerous goods is as follows:
Accessible Dangerous Goods
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Class 1: Explosives (e.g., fireworks or flares)
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Class 2.1: Flammable gas (e.g., aerosols or camping gas)
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Class 2.2: Non-flammable/non-toxic gas (e.g., compressed oxygen)
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Class 2.3: Toxic gas (e.g., carbon monoxide) *FedEx does not accept
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Class 3: Flammable liquids (e.g., solvents or paints)
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Class 4.1: Flammable solids (e.g., matches)
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Class 4.2: Substances liable to spontaneous combustion (e.g., phosphorus)
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Class 4.3: Substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable gas (e.g., calcium carbide)
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Class 5.1: Oxidizers (e.g., fertilizers)
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Class 5.2: Organic Peroxides (e.g., fiberglass repair kits)
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Class 8: Corrosives (e.g., bleach or drain cleaner)
Inaccessible Dangerous Goods
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Class 6.1: Toxic substances (e.g., pesticides)
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Class 6.2: Infectious substances (e.g., blood and non-blood samples for medical testing)
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Class 7: Radioactive material (e.g., smoke detectors) *Accepted in some markets only
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Class 9: Miscellaneous dangerous goods substances and articles (e.g., airbags, magnets, lithium batteries, and dry ice)
2. DHL Prohibited Items from Taiwan to Hong Kong
DHL does not transport any items prohibited from entering, leaving, or transiting by government regulations of any country/region.
Commonly regulated special items include coffee, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, plants, electronic instruments, medical supplies, etc. We recommend that you first check theimport regulations for each country, or use the "prohibited items" section in the right column when creating a waybill in MYDHL+.
3. SF Express Prohibited Items from Taiwan to Hong Kong
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Weapons, simulated weapons, ammunition, controlled equipment, and explosives
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Flammable and explosive items
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Oxidizers and peroxides
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Drugs and drug paraphernalia, unauthorized narcotic and psychotropic substances, unauthorized chemicals for drug manufacturing, toxic substances
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Biochemical products, infectious and contagious substances
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Corrosive substances, radioactive substances
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Illegal publications, printed materials, audio-visual products, and other propaganda that endangers national security and social stability
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Documents, materials, and other items involving state secrets
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Specialized espionage equipment
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Counterfeit or altered currency, valuable securities, certificates, official seals, and other illegally forged items
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Currency and valuable securities
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Items infringing intellectual property rights and counterfeit or shoddy goods
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Animals and plants, especially endangered wild animals and plants and their products
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Food, medicines, or other items that are harmful to human or animal health, from epidemic areas, or capable of spreading disease
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Tobacco and tobacco products, alcohol
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Valuables (e.g., artworks, antiques, gemstones, and precious metals like gold)
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Other prohibited items by laws and regulations
In addition to the above prohibited/restricted items, SF Express also reserves the right to refuse and/or suspend the delivery of the following items:
Any parcel without detailed contact information for the sender and recipient;
Items deemed unsuitable for shipping by SF Express or not properly described, classified, packaged, and labeled with necessary documentation in a manner suitable for delivery;
Items that, based on their inherent characteristics or packaging, SF Express determines may endanger transportation vehicles and personnel safety;
Items that SF Express, based on its own judgment, deems undeliverable from an economic or operational perspective.
It is the sender's obligation to comply with the currently applicable laws, regulations, and government provisions of the origin and destination countries/regions. As prohibited or restricted items vary between countries or regions, in addition to the above standards for prohibited/restricted items, senders are advised to also refer to the import and export lists of prohibited/restricted items for the origin and destination countries or regions.
>> SF Express Prohibited Items - Restricted Items for Shipping from Taiwan to Hong Kong
4. Chunghwa Post Prohibited Items from Taiwan to Hong Kong
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Items whose nature or packaging may harm postal service personnel or contaminate mail or postal equipment.
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Metal fasteners with sharp edges that obstruct mail processing.
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Flammable, explosive, or other dangerous items. However, this does not apply to easily perishable biological materials exchanged by registered institutions using special packaging, provided they have a transport permit issued by the relevant competent authority.
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Live animals. However, this does not apply to bees, silkworms, leeches, parasitic insects exchanged by registered institutions, insects used for pest control, or harmless live red earthworms sent to Japan without soil.
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Radioactive items.
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Opium, morphine, and other narcotic substances. However, this does not apply to cases where a transport permit is issued by the relevant competent authority or a judicial authority or judicial police authority certifies that they are for evidentiary purposes in litigation and are sent domestically as insured or declared value parcels, or sent internationally as insured parcels for medical or scientific use with permission from the destination country.
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Obscene documents or items that corrupt public morals. However, this does not apply to cases where a judicial authority or judicial police authority certifies that they are for evidentiary purposes in litigation and are exchanged as registered letters or parcels.
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Documents or items prohibited from import or circulation by the destination country.
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Documents or items prohibited from sale and manufacture by the government. However, this does not apply to cases where a judicial authority or judicial police authority certifies that they are for evidentiary purposes in litigation and are exchanged as registered letters or parcels.
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Lottery tickets and related advertising flyers. However, this does not apply to those issued with special government permission or those not issued with special permission but exchanged as registered letters or parcels by a judicial authority or judicial police authority for evidentiary purposes in litigation.
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Other prohibited items as stipulated by laws and regulations.
