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Cuba
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CUBAN CUSTOMS INFORMATION
If you are visiting Cuba as tourist you will enjoy the benefits
established in the Convention on Customs Facilities for Tourism.
You will have the right to enter items for your personal use
carried in your check-baggage or in your hand-baggage, that
there is no reason to consider that these rights are being
used in excesive quantities and they will be reexported when
leaving the country.
To this
effect, personal items are in addition to clothings and other
articles that can reasonably be considered of personal use
by the tourist, taking into account the circumstances of the
trip, and other items according to the type of tourism, such
as:
- Photo and video cameras, camping tent, fishing gear, bicycle,
sports equipments, laptop computer, equipments for recording
and reproducing sounds.
- Personal items, considering those articles a passenger may
need for personal use during the trip
medicines, prosthesis and wheel seat for the use of ill and
disable people
Books and articles for teaching purposes
If you are only carrying your personal items and cash not
exceeding $5000,00 USD or its equivalent in other currencies,
YOU DO NOT NEED TO FILL OUT THE CUSTOMS DECLARATION.
More
info at http://www.aduana.co.cu/ropai3.htm
When arriving and when leaving the country the passenger can
not carry with him:
- Drugs,
narcotics and psicothropic substances or hallucinogen, except
those of medical use accompanied by the corresponding physician
prescription.
- Explosives
- Fire arms and ammunitions, unless when submitting the expressed
authorization from the appropriate institution
- Blood products
- Obscene or pornographic literature, articles and objects,
or those publications considered a threat to the general interests
of the nation.
- Endangered species registered in the Convention on International
Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in case
of not submitting the permit issued by the appropriate authority
(CITES permission)
Import Prohibitions (Entry):
On
Export (Exit):
A passenger
can not carry with him:
- More than three units of the same medicine of national production,
except those destined to continued treatment, according to
its length of time and accompanied by the Certificate of the
Health Center, and in the case of non permanent residents
in Cuba of the corresponding Official Invoice.
- National heritage works or with museum value; books, brochures
and publications in series dated more than 50 years ago, as
well as Editorial “R” books if they do not have
the Export Certificate from the Cultural Works Registry.
- Cuban Handmade Cigars in an amount exceeding 50 units not
having the Official Invoice from the stored where they were
purchased.
- Lobster (frozen tales in its shell) not having Invoice which
accredits its licit purchase in the authorized stores.
- Cash in an amount exceeding $5000,00 USD or its equivalent
in other currencies that have not been declared when entering
the country or not having the corresponding authorization
of the Bank.
- More than $100.00 Cuban National Currency (CUP) or more
than $200.00 Cuban Convertible Pesos (CUC).
- Manuscript books; incunabula (books dated between 1440 and
1500); books, brochures and foreign publications in series
printed from XVI to XVIII centuries (1501 -1800); books, brochures
and publications in series published in Cuba in the XVIII
century; books, brochures that have the seal of libraries
part of the national system of public libraries or other informational
systems, as well as Cuban organization and institutions; ARE
NOT EXPORTABLE.
- Pieces and collections with numismatic value not submitting
the Authorization of the Numismatic Museum or the Central
Bank of Cuba.
If you acquire fresh paintings
and sculptures in the points where they are sold, make sure
that they have the Seal which authorizes their Export or request
the corresponding Permit indispensable requirement to take
them out of the country.
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