tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, and in the case of cigars and cigarettes, particulars of the brands and the number and net weight of the cigars or cigarettes of each brand should be clearly stated.
Prohibitions: Letters, except one for the addressee; cotton and woollen piece goods, such as are ordinarily sold by length or by the piece, imported for trade purposes and not stamped to indicate the length in yards or fractions thereof; arms and parts thereof (including toy, dummy or imitation revolvers or pistols and clasp knives of which the blades are more than 3 inches long) and appliances for discharging gas, unless imported by or on behalf of the Government of India; bronze or copper coins not of the Royal Mint or of an Indian State (except Baroda); bulbs and plants, unless accompanied by a certificate in the form prescribed by the Indian authorities; labels or woven goods bear- ing designs in imitation of paper money; quinine-coloured pink sulphur. Tobacco may be imported into Cochin and Travancore by licensed traders only.
Restrictions apply to the importation of the following articles: Potatoes and certain seeds; wireless sending apparatus.
A licence to be obtained by the addressee in advance is required for importation into India by post from Hong Kong of all goods except those for bona fide private use and not for sale.
Address: The name of the province in which the place of address is situated should as far as possible be included in the address.
Parcels addressed to the post-box numbers only, that is, without the actual address of the addressee, are inadmissible.
Insurance: The insurance service to Wana, Tana, Tanai, Sarwakai (under the Dehra-Ismail-Khan Post Office), Dattakhel and Spinwam (North Waziristan) Sararogha, Chorlaki, Kumar and Thathi Nasratti (North-West Frontier Province) is tem- porarily suspended.
Customs duty is levied in India on the full value of the articles sent, including postage, insurance, commission, and so on. An addition of 4 per cent to the declared value is made by the Indian customs authorities in assessing the duty unless such extra charges are shown in detail on the customs declarations, or unless it is made clear in the declarations that the charges have been included in the declared vlaue. When the total duty on a parcel does not exceed 12 annas, the whole of the duty is waived.
Duplicate documents: Senders of commercial parcels should, in in their own interest, forward by air mail directly to the addressees in India, duplicates of all necessary documents; for example (a) clear customs declaration, (b) certificate of origin and (c) invoice showing separately the value of each item en- closed in the parcel. The receipt of these duplicate documents in India prior to the arrival of the parcels will enable the addressees to facilitate customs clearance.
Compensation is not payable for damage to porcelain, glassware and other exceptionally fragile articles,
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