VATICAN CITY STATE (continued)
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface (via Genoa) Air mail
Not over
21b.
3lb.
7lb.
11lb. 221b. $5.50 7.00 8.50 11.00 19.00 Each lb., $8.00
Overseas Post 237
Supplemental services available: Insurance, surface only, limit $1,840.
Customs declaration and language: Two non-adhesive forms and despatch note. Italian or French as well as English. Each declaration for a gift parcel, as well as the parcel itself, must be conspicuously marked Gift Parcel.
Prohibitions: Charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted and should be declared as such on the customs declaration forms).
VENEZUELA (Republic of)
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
Letters Postcards
First oz., 40c., 25c.
each oz. after, 25c.
Each 4 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) Small packets. (6) Blind literature.
Customs declarations: (5) Green label and one non-adhesive form. (2) Printed matter liable to customs duty may be sent by printed papers post, provided that each packet bears a green customs label, and that a customs declaration is made out in quadruplicate for each packet or batch of packets not exceeding ten for the same addressee. One copy of the customs declaration must be enclosed with the printed matter, the others sent respectively to the Customs authorities at the port of entry (Gindad Bolivar, La Guaira, Maracaibo, or Puerdo Cabello) to the Director General of Posts, Caracas, and to the Sala de Examen de la Contaduria General de Hacienda, Caracas.
Prohibitions : Gold; jewellery; platinum; precious stones; silver; coin; bank- notes; currency notes and documents payable to bearer; all dutiable articles (except printed matter, see above, and samples without value) which, if found, are confiscated; saccharin.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Patent medicines; plants and parts of plants and products from plants such as wheaten flour, except when preserved in tins or previously cooked. Certain articles are subject to import licence, and packets containing them should not be despatched until the necessary licence has been obtained by the addressee.
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface
Not over 2lb. 3lb. 716. 11lb. 221b. $9.00 10.00 12.00 14.00 23.00
Air mail Each lb., $12,00
Supplemental services available: None.
Customs declaration : Four non-adhesive forms and despatch note. Declarations should show the nature of contents in accordance with the classification of the Venezuelan customs tariff. For goods such as liquids, fats, tobacco, and so on, customs declarations should show the weight of the goods including immediate containers, in addition to the gross and net weights as provided for on the form. Prohibitions: Letters; arms (except sporting guns admitted under permit) except for the Government; cigarette papers; copper, nickel and silver coins, except for the Government; saccharin.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Patent medicines; plants and parts of plants and products from plants, such as wheaten flour, except when preserved in tins or previously cooked. Certain articles are subject to import licence, and
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