Overseas Post 95
COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS (continued)
or for the private use of the addressee; wedding cake not securely packed in tin boxes.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Bees; plants and parts of plants, including fruit.
Import licences: A licence, to be obtained by the addressees in advance, is required for the importation of all goods except those of no commercial value, household articles, gifts not exceeding A£20 in value, bona fide samples, trade catalogues and so on.
Customs duty: Advertising matter is subject to customs duty, see under Parcel Post.
PARCEL POST
Supplemental services available: Insurance, surface only, limit $800 see Insurance below.
Customs declaration : One adhesive form.
Prohibitions: Letters, blank invoice forms: confectionery containing spirits: wines, spirits, liqueurs, or other alcoholic beverages, unless they are bona fide samples, each of which does not exceed 6 oz. in weight, and the approval of the Australian Collector of Customs to importation has been obtained; tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and snuff except genuine samples or for the private use of the addressee. Restrictions apply to the importation of: Arms: bees; plants and fruit; vaccines. serums and viruses.
Import licences: A licence to be obtained by the addressces in advance. is required for the importation of all goods except those of no commercial value, household articles, gifts not exceeding A£20 in value, bona fide samples, trade catalogues and so on.
Insurance does not cover damage to parcels containing fragile articles (for example. glassware, gramophone records and so on), liquids, semi-liquids, or perishable articles.
Customs duty: Advertising matter (catalogues, price lists, circulars and loose advertisements inserted in magazines) is dutiable. The following are however exempt from duty; Trade catalogues and price lists not designed to advertise the sale of goods by any person, firm or company in Australia, when sent into Australia in single copies addressed to merchants, firms or companies therein, and not exceeding one copy to each merchant, firm or company or branch office thereof and not being for distribution.
COLOMBIA (Republic of)
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
Letters
First oz., 40c.,
each oz. after, 25c.
Postcards
25c.
Each 1 oz. $2.50
$1.25
Supplemental services available: (1) Registration. (2) Printed papers. (3) Com- mercial papers, limit 4 lb. (4) Samples, limit 1 lb. (5) Blind literature.
Prohibitions : Books and reviews of a communistic or atheistic nature.
Restrictions apply to the importation of plants and seeds.
The importation of many other classes of goods into Colombia is subject to certain restrictions and controls; and the importer may be required to register the transac- tion in the Office of Exchange Registration. in which event evidence of registration may have to be produced by the exporter when applying for a consular invoice. Invoice: An invoice in quadruplicate on a form certified by a Colombian consul is required in respect of packets containing goods over 100 pesos in value. Å commercial invoice, numbered, certified and signed by the sender, must accompany each packet containing books and reviews of a commercial nature. For registered packets containing such goods the invoice must show the contents of each packet individually, the value of each item, the Post Office registration number allotted to each packet, the number of packets comprising the consignment and the gross