The bans on Wildberries come in two layers. The first is carriage limits: what physically will not fly. The second is the lists of goods that may not be sold or imported by law. The first layer is short and worth memorising; the second is long and worth consulting.
Three carriage limits
- No single piece over 20 kilograms.
- Anything with a battery: no more than 100 Wh.
- Dimensions depend on the shipping warehouse: usually up to 200 cm for the sum of sides and 115–120 cm for one side; the Hong Kong warehouses allow 90 and 60.
The lists of prohibited goods
This is where it gets awkward. Wildberries does not keep a single list: there is an index, and inside it links to seven more documents. Some are laid out as a three-column table — Russian, Chinese and English — and some as nested tables with levels and a disposal method. The Russian half adds up to 232 entries.
The big blocks are predictable: weapons and replicas, ammunition, drugs and paraphernalia, poisons and hazardous chemicals, military and police uniforms, prescription medicines, political and pornographic material, gambling, counterfeits. But inside sit things a seller would not call dangerous: alcohol and alcohol gels above 24 %, lighters, gas canisters, charcoal, paints and thinners, self-heating compounds.
Why look this up on our site
We follow the index, download all seven documents and assemble one list out of them — every day, alongside the rates. Three of the documents are laid out so they cannot be split into entries; those we show as raw text, but cut by language: the Chinese page carries only the Chinese part, the Russian page only the Russian one. On the platform itself those three files run continuously, with the Russian, Chinese and English tables one after another.