| CUSTOMS DECLARATION:
Passengers importing to Cuba other articles in addition to their
personal items must fill out the Customs Declaration providing all
the information required in this document.
If a passenger is carrying an amount in cash exceeding $5000.00
USD or the equivalent amount in other currencies when entering Cuba,
the Customs Declaration must be fill out.
TOURIST 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 excessive 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.
If you are only carrying your personal items and cash not exceeding
$5000.00 USD or its equivalent in other curren cies. YOU DO NOT
NEED TO FILL OUT THE CUSTOMS DECLARATION.
Exempt from the payment of Import Duty:
a. His personal items, considering those articles a passenger may
need for personal use during the trip.
b. Medicines, prothesis and wheel seat for the use of ill and disable
people.
c. Books and articles for teaching purposes.
In addition, a passenger can import articles for non-commercial
purposes up to a limit in value of $1000 pesos, of which the first
$50 pesos are exempt from the payment of import duty, and for the
rest (from 51 to 1000) pesos must pay the import duty applying the
following Ad-valorem Progressive Fee.
From 00.00 to 50.99 Exempted
From 51.00 to 250.99, a 100% Fee
From 251.00 to 500.99, a 150% Fee
From 501.00 to 1000.00, a 200% Fee
Total of customs duty to be collected in case of importing the maximum
authorized value = $1575.00
Import Prohibitions (Entry):
- The following electronic equipments:
Freezers having a capacity exceeding 7 feet; air conditioners; cookers
and electric ranges, including electrical resistance; ovens and
microwaves; showers; fryers; water heater; irons not having a consumption
exceeding 290 watts/hour with spray or 703 watts/hour with spray
and steam; bread
toasters.
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On Import
(Entry) - Articles and Products subject to Requirements:
- Licence or Previous Permits from the Ministry of Informatics and
Communications:
Wireless fax equipments; telephone boards; data-net devices; wireless
telephones except those operating in 40 - 49 MHz, 2,4 GHz and 5
GHz bands; radio transmitters; radio transceptors, including walkie-talkie;
professional radio receiver; land earth stations and satellite communications
terminals, including parabolic antennas and satellital phones.
- Previous Permit from the Hidrographical and Geodesical
National Office:
Global Positioning System (GPS), of any type.
- Subject to Inspection and Authorization from the Veterinar-
ian and Phitosanitarian Authorities:
Alive animals, plants and its parts, and products of animal
and vegetable origin whether processed or not.
On Export (Exit):
A passenger can not carry with him:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Cuban Handmade Cigars in an amount exceeding 50 units not having
the Official Invoice from the stored where they were purchased.
4. Lobster (frozen tales in its shell) not having Invoice which
accredits its licit purchase in the authorized stores.
5. 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.
6. More than $100.00 Cuban National Currency (CUP) or more than
$200.00 Cuban Convertible Pesos (CUC).
7. 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 librairies 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.
For more information, contact telephone numbers: 883-8282 and 881-9732
(all in the City of Havana) or through the WEB site of Cuban Customs
whose electronic address is: http://www.aduana.co.cu
This information was
updated on March 2011.
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