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CUBA REVIEW 



''ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 19S3, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume XX 



APRIL, 1922 



Number 5 



Cuban Government Matters 



Customs Regulations 



The extension of time previously granted 

 by the Cuban Government for the reexport 

 and clearance of undelivered goods at 

 Cuban ports has been curtailed by a new 

 presidential decree promulgated on March 

 23, according to telegraphic dispatches from 

 Habana received at the Department of 

 Commerce. The invoice value of the ag- 

 gregate merchandise affected is estimated 

 at over $60,000,000, much of which is 

 American, and consisting of textiles, leather 

 goods, machinery, and general merchandise. 



The present action revokes the privilege 

 of further reexport to the port of origin 

 without the payment of customs duties 

 which had been previously granted to such 

 foreign goods as had been entered for con- 

 sumption but not yet cleared through the 

 Cuban customs. The decree also provides 

 that the period allowed for the withdrawal 

 of goods now held in bonded warehouses, 

 after the payment of charges, shall expire 

 June 30, after which such uncleared mer- 

 chandise as has been stored in a bonded 

 warehouse for over six months may be 

 sold by the Cuban authorities for the pay- 

 ment of duties. 



The American Legation at Habana has 

 been instructed to lodge protest against 

 this abridgment of the privileges previously 

 granted for the reexport of such goods as 

 it is not found desirable to enter into the 

 Cuban market, and of the period allowed 

 for an inventory to be made and adjust- 

 ment to be reached between shipper and 



consignee before the goods in the bonded 

 warehouses need be removed. This protest 

 is based on the ground that inasmuch as 

 no adequate inventory to show the exact 

 location of particular parcels has been 

 available it has not been possible thus far 

 for merchants to take advantage of the 

 privileges extended by the previous decrees 

 to either remove the goods or reship them. 

 While every effort is being made to 

 protect American interests, owners of un- 

 delivered goods now held at Cuban ware- 

 houses are urged to adopt every measure 

 possible for disposal of these goods in 

 Cuba, and to remove them from the bonded 

 warehouses just as soon as the location of 

 their goods is ascertained in the course 

 of the inventory now under way. 



Cuban Legations 



The President of Cuba has issued a 

 decree authorizing the expenditure during 

 the second half of the present fiscal year 

 of sums in payment for supplies, house 

 rent, and salaries of subordinate employes 

 for the legations of the Republic as follows: 



For the legations in Colombia, Norway, 

 Panama, Peru, Portugal, Santo Domingo, 

 Switzerland, Uruguay, and Venezuela, 

 $2,000 each; for those in Belgium, China, 

 Holland, Italy, and Japan, $2,400 each; 

 for that in Mexico, $2,500; for those in 

 Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Spain, 

 France, Great Britain, and Central Amer- 

 ica, $3,300 each; and for that in the 

 United States, $6,000. 



