Trade scenario guide

Retail Gift Box & EUDR

A gift or retail box sold as the product itself can be treated differently from packaging presented with another product.

Status

Conditional — product vs accompanying packaging use matters

Next step

Confirm exact material, product condition and origin-country facts in the combined checker.

Typical outcomes

Empty gift boxes sold wholesale

Can be paperboard products in their own right.

Gift box presented with another product

Specified packaging used exclusively to support, protect or carry that product can fall under the Chapter 48 packaging-use exclusion.

Used / recovered boxes

Used, second-hand and recovered-material exclusions can also apply.