Overseas Post 125
FINLAND (continued)
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Almanacs and calendars in the Finnish or Swedish languages; medicines; seeds; unmanufactured tobacco; wines; spirits. Import licences are required for some goods.
Gift parcels: Customs and other charges are payable on most gift parcels; but gifts of worn clothing, used bed linen and used table linen are admitted free of duty if sent in such small quantities as to preclude their use for commercial purposes. Gift parcels containing foodstuffs, tobacco, soap, razor blades and other articles of small value are admitted free of duty if the total weight and value of such parcels received by the addressee in one month do not exceed 22 lb. and 5,000 Finnish marks respectively.
If an addressee receives more than 2 lb. cocoa, 2 lb. coffee, 2 lb. chocolate or sweets, 8 oz. tea and 34 oz. tobacco in one month, duty is payable.
FORMOSA See TAIWAN
FRANCE (including Monaco)
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
Letters Postcards
First oz., 40c., 25c.
cach oz. after, 25c.
Each 4 oz., $1.30
65c.
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label services, letter post. (2) Regis- tration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,840. (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $1,840. (5) Printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (7) Samples, limit 1 lb. (8) Small packets. (9) Blind literature.
Customs declarations and language: (1) Green label. (4) One non-adhesive form. (8) Green label and one non-adhesive form. French as well as English. Prohibitions: Charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted but there should be an appropriate indication of the contents on the cover of the packet); plants.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Articles of gold; bank-notes, currency notes, documents payable to bearer; coin; insulin; medicines, serums, vaccines and similar preparations. Alcohol and liqueurs; tobacco products.
Printed matter: Printed matter, especially books, is liable to an internal tax, but newspapers and periodicals are exempt.
PARCEL POST
All places (except Corsica, see separate entry).
Postage:
Surface
Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. 11lb. 22lb. $4.00 4.50 6,00 9.00 17.00
Air mail Each lb., $9.00
Supplemental services available: Insurance, air and surface, limit $1,840.
Customs declaration : One non-adhesive form and despatch note. Declarations should show the Post Office serial number of the parcel and should, as far as possible, be prepared in French as well as in English. Weights and measures should be shown in the metric system.
Prohibitions: Letters; arms (except sporting guns admitted under permit): candles; charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted but there should be an appropriate indication of the contents on the cover of the parcel); saccharin; tobacco essence; and, in addition, all goods which do not comply with the requirements of the (French) Merchandise Marks Act. Restrictions apply to the importation of: Cut flowers (except flowers and wreaths addressed to British cemeteries); eggs of game birds during close season; fish and game; fresh fruit; fresh vegetables and potatoes, including seed potatoes; gramo- phone records; living plants, roots and bulbs; preserved fish, plums and vegetables; shrubs. Alcohol and liqueurs; tobacco products.