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TURKEY (continued)
Supplemental services available: Insurance, air and surface, limit $1,840, Turkish or French as well as English.
Prohibitions: Letters; charged butane gas lighters and refills if sent via France (uncharged lighters are admitted and should be declared as such on the customs declaration form); coffee in excess of 24 lb. per month to the same person; labels, corks, empty bottles or other containers bearing the marks of non-Turkish firms. and intended for use in packing Turkish products and goods; goods bearing indications, which suggest that they are of Turkish origin when they are not; cigarette papers, machines and tobacco of all kinds, cigars, cigarettes and snuff, unless addressed to the Administration of the Tobacco Monopoly; or to privileged members of the staffs of diplomatic missions in Ankara and Istanbul; cottons not mentioned in the official list (Codex) except cotton prepared for medical use; military weapons (except for the Government) and air-guns; worn clothing, bedding and so on, except with a certificate of disinfection.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Alcoholic liquors; coffee; pharma- ceutical preparations; plants and parts of plants; playing cards; quinine; soap;
tea.
Invoice : A certified invoice should accompany all printed items (books, journals etc.) sent to commercial firms, and a certificate of origin must be sent with printed items other than daily newspapers.
Address: See Address paragraph under LETTER POST,
Sealing: Parcels must be sealed with a distinctive device.
Compensation is not payable for damage to parcels containing liquids, fragile articles or perishable goods if the damage occurs in the Italian service.
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
First oz., 20c., 15c.
each oz. after, 15c.
Air mail
Letters Postcards Letters Each 4 oz., $2.00
$1.00
Postcards
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Printed papers. (4) Commercial papers, limit 5 lb. (5) Samples, limit 5 lb. (6) Small Packets. (7) Blind literature.
Customs declarations: (1) and (6) Green label and one non-adhesive form. Prohibitions : Butane gas lighters and refills.
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface
(via Kingston)
Air mail
Not over 21b. 3lb. 71b.
11lb. 22lb. $8.50 8.50 12.00 15.50 25.00 Each lb., $10.00
Supplemental services available: None.
Customs declaration: One adhesive form.
Prohibitions: Letters; butane gas lighters and refills; firearms, except under permit.
Compensation is not payable.
UGANDA See KENYA AND UGANDA
UKRAINIAN S.S.R. Same as UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
UMM SAID See QATAR
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA See SOUTH AFRICA, UNION OF