Product guide

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.