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When you send with Australia Post, you may or may not be charged these duties.

You will need to make sure you instruct the courier company to charge these to you if this is the case.

When you send with a courier, your parcel will incur taxes and duties payable 100% of the time (if the country you are sending to charges these).

Choose whether you are going to send it via Australia Post or with a courier, and if you will send it express or standard.

On top of that, you should also mark your parcel and paperwork clearly as a “gift only”. It’s best to use the template they gift you as this will have all the information they need clearly stated.

If you are sending via a courier, they usually have their own form of invoice.

If you are sending your chocolate overseas via Australia Post, they will gift you the customs form – make sure you mark it as a ‘gift only’.

Fill in your customs form which needs to state value, each individual product that’s in the gift, the weight of the gift and the country of manufacture.

Although it doesn’t tell you what you can send, it certainly tells you what you can’t! So make sure chocolate is not on this list for the country you wish to send to.

We recommend the Australia Post International Shipping guide of prohibited and restricted items.

Check the country you are sending to allows food / chocolate to be sent to it.

Or some other void fill – such as brown paper or even newspaper will do the trick.

You can also use bubble wrap – available at most Australia Post offices.

We suggest wood wool – this is the prettiest type of packaging and is what we generally use! It’s hard to find it in small quantities so you might have to buy the 1kg bag and save some for later.As there’ll be lots of movement when a gift box is delivered overseas! This is called the “shred” or “fillers” or “void fillers” you use to wrap the package Additionally it’s important the chocolate gift fits well in the box you’ve bought and doesn’t jiggle around on the way.

the size of your box) – whichever costs omre. Ideally this box should be as small as possible, because most international freight carriers will charge postage based on weight and/or dimensional weight (i.e.You should put the chocolate in a a cardboard box to send it in order to avoid damage.Get your packaging right – you need to make sure the packaging for the chocolate is appropriate which means.Buy the chocolate from the supermarket (tick – I think we can all manage that one).The steps for sending Australian chocolate overseas are: If only sending chocolate overseas was as easy as buying the chocolate from the supermarket, packaging it up, going to your local Australia post shop and sending it! With us, it’s even cheaper and faster than sending standard airmail with Australia post! (not to mention you’ll avoid all the hassle of gift wrapping, box packaging and queueing in line for ages at a local Australia post office). When a gift is not stopped by Customs ( see here for more info on overseas delivery), gifts take an average of 2-6 working days to get delivered overseas.

Here at I Still Call Australia Home, we have negotiated rates with DHL Express so can get your gift-wrapped chocolates overseas fast and hassle free.

You want to make sure you’re using a company who knows their way around international customs, laws and regulations, so you can make sure your gift arrives safely and there are no surprises when it comes to taxes and duties that need to be paid on the gift. There are plenty of options out there to do this. (1) BUY OFF AN AUSTRALIAN SITE WHO SPECIALISE IN SENDING AUSTRALIAN GIFTS INTERNATIONALLY