USPS International Country Price Group | Overview

USPS uses a Country Price Group to determine the shipping rates for international shipments.

Each country is assigned to a Country Price Group. These groups also vary by USPS service and package type.

Country Price Group designations are known to change from year to year. For current information, use the USPS' online lookup tool to find the Country Price Group for a particular destination.

Country Price Group Changes for 2021

As of January 24, 2021, the USPS will expand their Country Pricing Groups for weight-based service for First Class Package International, Priority Mail Express International, and Priority Mail International services.

First Class Package International Service will expand from 9 groups to 20. Priority Mail International and Priority Mail Express International will expand from 17 groups to 20.

This is due to the decision made between the USPS and the Universal Postal Union in July 2020 which allowed for countries to increase their costs for exports to the USPS. Creating additional pricing groups is one way the USPS can reduce passing on this increase in costs to shippers.

Previously, country price groups were determined by world region. Now, they are made up of countries that share one price for customers but do not share one price for the USPS. Having more country price groups will allow the USPS to apply a variety of rates for price control, rather than applying one default rate that is determined by the highest-cost country.

Flat Rate Country Price Groups

Flat Rate Package groups will not change.

For general guidelines, the following tables summarize which world regions match with Country Price Groups for USPS services available via First-Class Mail International, First-Class Package International Service, Priority Mail International and Priority Mail Express International.

Weight-Based Service Country Price Groups

First Class Package International Service, Priority Mail Express International, and Priority Mail International will have 9 individual rate groups and 2 country rate groups.

Full Country Price Group List

Countries that do not fall in the Individual Price Groups or Country Rate Groups will be assigned new Country Price groups. You can find which group those countries fall into using the chart below, as well as make a comparison of the changes from 2020 to 2021.