THE CUBA REVIEW 
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For the importation of long arms of greater caliber than .32 or 5.5. millimeters, 
.44 caliber revolvers, and automatic pistols a special permit is required. 
The importation of silencers for firearms is prohibited. 
Explosives, arms, and ammunition imported without official authorization in ac- 
cordance with existing regulations, will be subject to confiscation upon arrival at a Cuban 
port. This does not apply to sporting guns and rifles for shooting galleries, for the im- 
portation of which no authorization is required. 
Firearms, gunpowder, cartridges, dynamite and all kinds of explosives and munitions 
of war found maliciously concealed on board any vessel and not contained in the manifest, 
shall be confiscated and the captain shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $2,000.00. 
Paintings, publications, figures and all other objects offensive to morality. 
Merchandise whose importation is prohibited, whether declared legally or not, shall 
be seized and confiscated. 
Merchandise imported by passengers when found concealed on their person or in any 
other manner with intent to defraud the revenue shall be subject to seizure. 
PENALTIES AND ADDITIONAL DUTIES 
Consignees of merchandise shall be subject to the following penalties and additional 
duties, in the cases specified below: 
If the appraised value of any merchandise exceeds the declared value of same, it 
shall pay, besides the regular customs duties, an additional amount equal to 1% of the | 
total appraised value for each 1% that said appraised value exceeds the declared value; 
and if said appraised value exceeds the declared value by more than 50%, except in cases 
of an evident clerical error, the declaration shall be considered as attempted fraud, and 
the merchandise shall be held and confiscated by the Government. 
If the actual weight of a shipment exceeds the declared weight by a difference of from 
1 to 15°; (both inclusive) of the total weight of the shipment, the Customs Collector shall 
use his discretion in imposing additional duties not to exceed 1% of the total duties on 
the merchandise for each 1% of difference between the declared weight and the real weight. 
Such additional duties shall not be imposed by the Customs Collector in case he is satis- 
fied that the discrepancy was unintentional. 
When such difference exceeds 15% of the total weight of the merchandise, but does 
not exceed 50% of the said total weight, an additional duty of 1% for each 1% of differ- 
ence between the declared weight and the true weight shall be imposed. 
Should the difference exceed 50% of the total weight of the merchandise the dec- 
laration shall be considered as attempted fraud, and the merchandise shall be held and 
confiscated by the Government. 
In all cases of additional duties, obligatory or discretionary, if actually imposed, no 
exemption shall be made except with the approval in writing of the Chief of the Customs 
Service in Havana, to whom an appeal in writing may be addressed, and whose decision 
shall be final. 
The Cuban Custom House will impose a fine amounting to double consular fees if 
invoices and bills of lading are certified on a date later than the arrival of the correspond- 
ing ship at the first Cuban port of entry. 
The Cuban Custom House will also impose a fine of double the fees failed to have 
been paid at the Consulates, on invoices whose values upon appraisal of the merchandise 
are found to be more than the value consigned. 
The above-mentioned fines will not be imposed when invoices and bills of lading 
cover merchandise shipped from countries and through ports where there is no Cuban 
Consular Office. 
FRAUDULENT DECLARATION 
Merchandise declared in a fraudulent manner, as regards its value, quantity, or 
character, shall be forfeited to the Government; and merchandise having been the object 
of an attempt at Importation into Cuba without previous and due declaration and proper 
clearance in the Custom House shall be seized and confiscated. 
