Lithium Battery Restrictions Country List

Lithium Battery Country Restrictions
(This country list is specifically for shipments originating from the Americas Region)
Region
DHL’s lithium battery capabilities vary depending on the type and classification of battery.
LITHIUM BATTERY LOOPHOLE: Please note- If a package contains no more than two devices with installed batteries (less than 4
cells or less than two batteries Watt hour
ur not exceeding 100 Wh for Ion
Ion- Lithium content not more than
n 2 grams per battery for
Metal) there are no lithium battery marking or labeling requirements. No lithium battery transport document is required. These
The
same shipments destined for the Asia Pacific region do require a very specific airwaybill statement: Lithium Ion Batteries in
compliance Section II PI967 (less than 4 cells/2 batteries) or Lithium Metal Batteries in compliance Section II PI970 (less than 4
cells/2 batteries).
Additional Asia Pacific requirement: Even Section II PI967 and PI970 Lithium Battery Loophole shipments
require account approval to export from AU, NZ and KR.
LITHIUM ION SECTION II (PI 965, 966, 967): acceptable worldwide except for: Algeria, American Samoa,
S
Angola, Anguilla, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia,
Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Comoros,
Congo, Cook Islands, Cote d’lvoire, Djibouti, East Timor, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Fiji, French Guyana, Gabon, Gambia,
Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guinea Republic, Guinea
Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Equatorial,
Equatorial, Iran, Jordan, Kazakstan, Kenya,
Kiribati, Kosovo,
sovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Mariana Islands, Martinique, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali,
Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands
Antilles, Nevis, New Caledonia, Niger, Niue, Oman, Papau New Guinea, Qatar, Reunion Island, Rwanda, Saipan, Samoa, Sao Tome
and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, St. Barthelemy,
Barthel
St.
Eustatius, St. Maarten,
rten, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tahiti, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, *Turkey
Turkey (see note),Turks and Cacos
Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zam
Zambia, Zimbabwe. This commodity is acceptable to Russia
with prior approval. Contact the IDG Hotline for details at [email protected].. PI966 doesn’t require
the Russia pre-alert. / *This commodity is permissible to Turkey, but only to the following cities: Istanbul, Ankara,
Izmir, Denizli, Adana, Kayseri, Gaziantep, Antalya, Bursa.
LITHIUM ION SECTION IA (PI 965 only): only acceptable to the international
rnational locations shown below:
AMERICAS REGION
Canada
Colombia
Costa Rica
Curacao
Jamaica
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Venezuela
MIDDLE EAST
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Iraq
Israel
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
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gerous Goods Hotline
ASIA PACIFIC
Australia
Bangladesh
Brunei
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Japan
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives
Myanmar
New Zealand
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
LITHIUM ION SECTION IB (PI 965 only): only acceptable to the international locations shown below:
AMERICAS REGION
Canada
Colombia
Costa Rica
Curacao
Jamaica
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Venezuela
EUROPE
MIDDLE EAST
Andorra
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canary Islands
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Russia--
Estonia
Required
Finland
San Marino
France
Serbia
Germany
Sicily
Greece
Slovakia
Slovenia
Iceland
Spain
Ireland
Sweden
AFRICA
Italy
Switzerland
Morocco
Nigeria
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Iraq
Israel
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Pre-Alert is
Hungary
ASIA PACIFIC
Australia
Bangladesh
Brunei
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Japan
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives
Myanmar
New Zealand
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
The Netherlands
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Vatican
LITHIUM ION SECTION
ION I (PI 966 & 967
967): only acceptable to the international locations shown below:
AMERICAS REGION
Canada
Colombia
Costa Rica
Curacao
Jamaica
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Venezuela
MIDDLE EAST
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Iraq
Israel
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
June 2014 International Dangerous
gerous Goods Hotline
ASIA PACIFIC
Australia
Bangladesh
Brunei
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Japan
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives
Myanmar
New Zealand
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
LITHIUM
THIUM METAL SECTION II (PI 968
968): acceptable worldwide except for: Algeria, American Samoa, Angola,
Anguilla, Armenia, Aruba, Asia Pacific region (entire), Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana,
Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central Af
African
rican Republic, China, Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Cote d’lvoire, Djibouti, East Timor, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland
Islands, Fiji, French Guyana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guinea R
Republic,
epublic, Guinea-Bissau,
Guinea
GuineaEquatorial, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Kazakstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho,
Liberia, Libya, Macau, Martinique, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mariana Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte,
Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, Nevis, New
Caledonia, New Zealand, Niger, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Papau New Guinea, Philippines, Qatar, Reunion Island, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao
Tome and Principe, Saipan, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, South
Korea, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Barthelemy, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, Sudan, SSwaziland,
waziland, Syria, Tahiti, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania,
Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, *Turkey (see note)
note),, Turks and Cacos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam,
Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. This commodity is acceptable to Russia with prior approval.
Contact the IDG Hotline
for details at [email protected]
[email protected]. / *This commodity is permissible to Turkey, but only to the
following cities: Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Denizli, Adana, Kayseri, Gaz
Gaziantep, Antalya, Bursa.
LITHIUM
THIUM METAL SECTION II (PI 969, 970
970): acceptable worldwide except for: Algeria, American Samoa,
Angola, Anguilla, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan,
aijan, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia,
Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Comoros,
Congo, Cook Islands, Cote d’lvoire, Djibouti, East Timor, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Fiji, French Guyana, Gabon, Gambia,
Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guinea Republic, Guinea
Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Equatorial,
Equatorial, Iran, Jordan, Kazakstan, Kenya,
Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Martiniqu
Martinique,
e, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mariana Islands,
Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands
Antilles, Nevis, New Caledonia, Niger, Niue, Oman, Papau New Guinea, Qatar, Reunion Isla
Island, Rwanda, Saipan, Samoa, Sao Tome
and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, St. Barthelemy,
Barthel
St.
Eustatius, St. Maarten, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tahiti, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, TTonga, Tunisia, *Turkey
Turkey (see note), Turks and Cacos
Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zam
Zambia, Zimbabwe. This commodity is acceptable to Russia
with prior approval. Contact the IDG Hotline for details at [email protected].
[email protected] / *This commodity is
permissible to Turkey, but only to the following cities: Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Denizli, Adana, Kayseri, Gaziantep, Antalya, Bursa.
LITHIUM METAL SECTION
ION IA (PI 968 only): only acceptable to the international locations shown
below:
AMERICAS REGION
Canada
Colombia
Costa Rica
Curacao
Jamaica
Mexico
Puerto Rico
MIDDLE EAST
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Iraq
Israel
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela
June 2014 International Dangerous
gerous Goods Hotline
LITHIUM METAL SECTION IB (PI 968 only): only acceptable to the international locations shown below:
AMERICAS REGION
EUROPE
Canada
Colombia
Costa Rica
Curacao
Jamaica
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Andorra
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canary Islands
Croatia
Czech Republic
Venezuela
Denmark
San Marino
Estonia
Serbia
Finland
Sicily
France
Slovakia
Germany
Slovenia
Greece
Spain
Hungary
Sweden
Iceland
Switzerland
Morocco
Ireland
The Netherlands
Nigeria
Italy
Ukraine
Latvia
United Kingdom
Liechtenstein
Vatican
AFRICA
MIDDLE EAST
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Russia—Pre Alert is required
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Iraq
Israel
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
United Arab
Emirates
LITHIUM METAL SECTION
ION I (PI 969, 970
970): only acceptable to the international locations shown below:
AMERICAS REGION
Canada
Colombia
Costa Rica
Curacao
Jamaica
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Venezuela
MIDDLE EAST
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Iraq
Israel
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
ASIA PACIFIC
Australia
Bangladesh
Brunei
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Japan
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives
Myanmar
New Zealand
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
Note: The commercial airlines that service the Asia Pacific region have an additional requirement for a current MSDS to
accompany each lithium battery shipment destined for AP.
June 2014 International Dangerous
gerous Goods Hotline