Sending food to other countries

[drwhofan]

I have a friend in America who picked up a serious addiction to Jaffa Cakes while she was over here. I want to send her some but I'm a bit unsure of what rules there are about sending food to the USA? Can anyone help?

[Mr Veritas]

This:~
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/vacation/kby g/prohibited_restricted.xml#FoodProductsPrepar ed
is the Food Importation page of US Customs.
It looks as if your friend's addiction to Jaffa Cakes (me too!) will be OK,as from what I can read on the page cakes,cookies and choccy thinkgs seem to be alright.
Although Jaffa Cakes DO have an orange centre,it's not enough to worry US Customs,especially given that it's orange puree and not an actual orange(which would be OK anyway).

Fee for advice:~ One Packet of Jaffa Cakes please! LOL

[ChuckFickens]

or they could just buy them themselves

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_?url=me%3DA2 1QVTT6WKQQUH&field-keywords=jaffa&x=0&y=0

(that will also cost you a pack of jaffa cakes ;))

[spudqueen]

This is the official Royal Mail site regarding sending food to the US.
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?ca tId=400044&mediaId=9300075

As you can see, sending manufactured goods as a personal gift to individual people in the US is okay, but you MUST clearly mark the customs form (available at all Post Offices). If you do not do this then they may well be returned to yourself, or even destroyed.

[spudqueen]

This is the advice from the Royal Mail.
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?ca tId=400044&mediaId=9300075

[spudqueen]

This is the advice from the Post Office
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?ca tId=400044&mediaId=9300075