06/21/2023
We send you the new regulations that Cuban customs have announced: 📢📢📢
☑ Cuba will extend the tariff exemption for food, cleaning products and medicines, until December 31, a provision that will include new benefits for unaccompanied shipments and luggage.
☑ Another new facility is that in the case of Public Health, medical supplies, accessories or equipment that have to do with the treatment of bedridden people may be imported.
☑ Shipments above the established value (200.00 USD or its equivalent of 20 kilograms) will be temporarily authorized, and up to the limit of 500.00 USD or its equivalent of 50 kilograms, which will allow the importation of certain merchandise by sea, air shipments and postcards.
☑ The exemption from the payment of tariffs for the first 30.00 USD of the value or its equivalent weight up to 3 kilograms of the shipment is ratified, as well as the application to the excess of this, of the approved tariff rate of 30%.
☑ This measure allows the importation of goods that until now could not be made as shipments, because they exceeded the established referential values, such as: laptops, televisions, refrigerators, freezers, among others.
☑ The exemption from payment of the customs tax on food, hygiene, medicines and medical supplies that are imported without commercial character by natural persons such as air, sea and postal shipments, up to a limit of USD 200 or its equivalent weight up to 20 kilograms in the weight/value relationship established by the General Customs of the Republic.
Sissi Ubals Cuza