Cuban Customs warns about the entry of power generators in luggage: when confiscation may occur
Cuban Customs establishes regulations for the importation of power generators, allowing the entry of this essential equipment, but with clear restrictions that you must consider. If you are planning to bring a generator larger than 1500 VA to Cuba, it is essential that you understand how this affects your baggage allowance.
Under current regulations, power plants larger than 1500 VA have a declared value of $950.00 USD, leaving a margin of just $50.00 USD to reach the import limit allowed for passenger shipments, which is $1,000.00 USD.
This means that if you decide to import this type of generator, you cannot include any other items subject to valuation in your luggage. If you exceed the limit, customs may confiscate it.
Are you bringing a power plant over 1500 VA to Cuba?
"If you bring a power plant greater than 1500 VA, whose value is 950.00 USD, you cannot import any other item because it exceeds the import limit value established for the passenger route (1000.00 USD) and confiscation is applied," they clarified to an editor of Directorio Cubano.
La Cuban Customs He specified that travelers "can only bring 30 kg of miscellaneous personal effects, food, toiletries, and medications, which are exempt from payment, provided they come separately from the rest of the items."
That is, if you're carrying a 15 kVA generator in your luggage, make sure any other items you're transporting fall into these exempt categories. Otherwise, they could be detained or even confiscated.
Demand for power plants in Cuba
The demand for power plants continues to rise among Cubans living abroad, especially in Miami, who are seeking to secure an electricity supply for their loved ones' homes on the island. However, options such as solar-powered power stations are gaining popularity as a more sustainable solution.
If you decide to import a large-capacity generator, keep these rules in mind to avoid setbacks on your trip and maximize the benefits of what you can bring to Cuba.
Learn about the values of power plants at Cuban Customs.
- Up to 900 watts = 200.00 USD
- Over 900 watts and up to 1500 watts = value 500.00 USD
- Over 1500 watts and up to 15 kVA = value 950.00 USD
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15 comments
I am a collaborator from Venezuela. Can I take a plant with me? Would I pay for it in Venezuelan currency, at $24?
Can I take a lithium or gel battery in my accompanied luggage?
My question is, could I take a 900V lithium or gel battery in my hand luggage? How much would it cost to enter Cuba?
I don't understand why they recently announced that they were going to let in last-minute electrical appliances that were going to be used. Be flexible. You're crazy. One day you say one thing and the next day you say something else. You never tire of seeing that in Cuba there are a thousand needs. For God's sake, you're the first ones who have everything in your homes, that's why my country isn't moving forward.
My mother's plant costs more to bring into Cuba than to buy it and send it to her relatives in Cuba to cushion the shock of the current. Can someone tell me if that law is from the blockade of ?? So much that we say about the USA and all the prices are in USD, what professional in Cuba can pick up a plant at customs that a relative from ?? sends them?
It is paid in Cuban pesos; $1.00 USD x $24.00 pesos.
My mother's plant costs more to bring into Cuba than to buy it and send it to her relatives in Cuba to cushion the shock of the current. Can someone tell me if that law is from the blockade of ?? So much that we say about the USA and all the prices are in USD, what professional in Cuba can pick up a plant at customs that a relative from ?? sends them?
What a piece of garbage government! They can't guarantee electricity service, and they're also charging for the plant. Until when?
Where is the US blockade here? The communists have it in their stupid brains.
Arbitrary confiscation;
Worse is happening with the illegal seizure of compressed air sporting weapons (perlet shotguns) and their ammunition, caliber 4.5 (.177) cups, their import explicitly authorized by decree law 262 of 2008, second section, who compensates for this institutional theft of customs
These people are so evil and don't want the people to improve because how are they going to charge more to bring a plant into a country than the cost of the plant in the store with shipping and everything? Now I ask, is this also the fault of the Americans or "the blockade"? Where is the real blockade?
The generals and their families who work at Customs have to live, right?
Yes, since the country cannot cope with the electricity deficit, it is abusive that they do not allow people to solve their problem. How can they facilitate, not hinder, the entry of plants to the town?
It seems unfair to me with the need that exists and it does not stop being a prosperous business for the state since gasoline is in dollars and the people need it, value it, do not restrict it, improve it for everyone who has the possibility of receiving help for their families.
I don't think it's fair that they're charging so much for a plant when they've said they wouldn't charge for it. It's an abuse that they're confiscating nothing when the country is growing at all costs.
The value reflected there is in points. If you can import 120 kg, which is equivalent to a thousand points, and the plant has a customs value of 950 points, you would have 50 left. What is wrong is putting limits on capacity.