Send a gift box to Belgium
What you can and can't put in the box, how customs works on the way in, and the rounds that include Belgium right now.
Routes to Belgium
Customs into Belgium
We prepare the declaration with your label, marked as a gift with its value. Belgium gives relief on gifts between private people worth up to €45.
What not to put in the box
On every route
- Food and drink
- Liquids
- Loose lithium batteries and power banks
- Aerosols and spray cans
- Perfume, aftershave and nail polish (flammable)
- Alcoholic drinks
- Tobacco and e-cigarettes
- Lighters, matches and fireworks
- Cash, banknotes and jewellery
- Weapons, ammunition and replicas
- Medicines
Into Belgium
- Meat and dairy products from outside the EU
- Plants, fruit and seeds from outside the EU without a plant health certificate
- Medicines
- Counterfeit goods
About Belgium
- Capital Brussels
- Speaks Dutch, French, German
How gifts are given here
In Belgium, Sinterklaas visits on the night of 5 December. Children leave a shoe by the fireplace, often with a carrot for his horse, and find presents there in the morning.
Say thank you
Merci / Dank u
say it mehr-SEE / dahnk ew
Write it on the card in your box.
Open rounds that include Belgium
Each round names the countries it is open to. The ring decides where your box goes.
Boxes that arrived in Belgium
See the gallery
Somebody in Belgium is waiting for a parcel.
See open roundsRules last checked 19 Oct 2026. The national post and customs authority have the final word. Sources: bpost.be, bpost.be, food.ec.europa.eu, food.ec.europa.eu.