Cardboard Box & EUDR
A cardboard box can be covered when sold as a product in its own right, while a box used exclusively as packaging for another product can be excluded under the current Annex I wording.
Status
Conditional — product vs packaging use matters
Next step
Confirm product composition, transaction use and origin-country facts in the combined checker.
Product or packaging?
Empty cartons sold commercially
Cartons, boxes and cases placed on the market as products in their own right can fall within Chapter 48.
Box around another product
Specified packing used exclusively to support, protect or carry another product can be outside EUDR.
Recovered / used material
Current Chapter 48 wording also contains waste, recovered-material and used/second-hand exclusions.