Cuban Customs is preparing new rules under a new decree that would affect travelers. What changes?The Cuban authorities are developing a project of Customs Decree-Law which, if approved, would establish New regulations for travelers entering the island, including those arriving from United States.
This measure seeks to update entry requirements and strengthen border controls in response to the rise in smuggling, according to the Council of State's regular session for the month of June.
According to reports collected by local media, the Cuban Customs intends to implement a system of increased surveillance of luggage, as well as a modernization in the process of review and delivery of products that pass through official controls.
The objective is to limit the entry of undeclared merchandise or merchandise destined for informal trade, a situation that has grown amidst the Cuban economic crisis and shortages of basic products.
En words from the head of Cuban Customs, Nelson Cordovés ReyesThis customs reform focuses on curbing smuggling and ensuring that items entering the country comply with established regulations.
Between April and December 2024, they were detected 67 cases of seizures, including more than 285 thousand units of cleaning products, almost 7 thousand kilos of food and over 700 thousand tablets of medicines, all of them without the appropriate documentation.
What changes are expected at the Cuban Customs border?
Although the new Customs Decree-Law has not yet come into force, stricter limits are expected to be set regarding weight and value of the items that travelers can enter the country, even if they do not have commercial purposes.
This measure will directly impact those traveling from Miami to Cuba, a very frequent and busy route where a large amount of luggage is moved.
Currently, entry is allowed up to 1,000 Cuban pesos in merchandise y 25 kilos of personal effects free of charge.
If the traveler exceeds that limit, Cuban Customs authorities could consider it to be a commercial import, which would imply paying taxes and the submission of additional documentation to be able to collect belongings retained.
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One way to make a product cheaper is through its abundance. And its entry into the country for commercial purposes shouldn't be prohibited. Trade has wings on its legs; let it fly.
You should be ashamed to restrict and talk about so many laws and decrees with a hungry people, lacking medicine, with blackouts to restrict and squeeze the people more. You don't pass a law that benefits the people, everything is fines, restrict and blame the shameless Envargo.
The Cuban government has no medicine, food, or personal hygiene products. They have absolutely nothing. Their population is starving and malnourished. It's pitiful to see people's faces; they look like corpses. And the only way to get these products is through travelers.
They have never said a law to benefit the Cuban people, on the contrary. They do not guarantee the Cuban people our daily bread. In the 21st century and the country is going backwards every day. And I do not want them to tell me that it is because of the blockade.
Why isn't there a blockade? And it's proven by the sale of cars and the food sold by the minipimis.
There is an internal blockade, so even farmers cannot sell their products.
It's very true, it's pure reality, and they talk 24 hours a day everywhere about the blockade, what a blockade,...
I think that the more products enter the country, the more people benefit, the less needs there are, the lower the prices and the deaths of the state in cooperating with the people to solve their problems are seen because what they confiscate does not help the people at all, on the contrary, they continue to close the doors to them. Here, restrictions are not needed, what is needed is a variety of products and quantities so that market competition exists and the same is regulated taking into account an economic law that has never failed: supply and demand with several suppliers.
They know what you're thinking. But they have no interest in the people's improvement. On the contrary, the more miserable and hungry the people are, the less time they have to think about wanting to live better.
The government and its disciples are the only ones who can travel and enter the country as they wish. They are the owners of an island with slaves.
Finally, what are the restricted items? They always come out with something new, not to improve the situation, on the contrary, it makes it worse.
analyze and reflect.
Thank you.
Cuban customs does whatever it wants with travelers' rights because the same government that the people voted for in the "electoral colleges" is allowing it to do so. All of this will end when everyone affected shows up and causes a resounding scandal in the middle of the airport lounge. There's no other way.
The people do not vote for the government, they vote exclusively for the delegate of the constituency where you live.
Friend, the people didn't vote for any government; it was imposed on them by force. And rights? What rights? What demonstration? You're either not Cuban or you don't live in Cuba.
They no longer know what to invent to get money from emigration, until when.
But a miserable country that is starving and has so many restrictions. I don't understand, or is it communism?
The customs officers have nothing to worry about.cupThey live off what they take from travelers and what they confiscate from the boxes and pickup points, which they keep without even notifying anyone. I can say this from my own experience.
It has happened to me on more than one occasion.
7 thousand kilos of food confiscated, a country that has no food. JJAAAAAA the country of absurdities
Always trying to screw the people, who have no food, no medicine, and much less hygiene, and that's why there are so many diseases.
The country where customs have so many restrictions, I don't understand anything at all
There is a budget there!!!… if there is money to carry out that action… to modernize customs and all the MINNINT equipment… otherwise it is not that important… to suffer need, and hunger!!!…