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Prohibitions: Bank notes, coin, gold,

gold, jewellery, platinum, precious stones, silver; arms; mechanical lighters; perfumes; pharmaceutical preparations; photographic apparatus and films; playing cards; saccharine; tea; tobacco.

Restrictions: By sample post the limit of weight is lower than 1 lb. for many articles.

PARCELS

Postage: not over 2 lb. 3 lb. via London

7 lb.

$6.00

$7.50

$9.00

11 lb. 22 lb. $12.50 $21.00

via Marseille

$7.75

$9.50

$11.30

$20.45

Supplemental services available: Insurance, limit $1,600.

Customs declarations: 3C., 1DN.

Prohibitions: Letters; meat, poultry and game in parcels over 11 lb. in weight; playing cards addressed to San Marino; potatoes; saccharine and its products, unless addressed to authorised chemists.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Arms; foodstuffs in preserved or extract form; mechanical lighters; patent medicines; plants, parts of plants and seeds; tobacco and its products, in- cluding nicotine; wireless apparatus.

Certificate: A certificate of origin, together with a copy of the invoice dated and signed by the sender should accompany each commercial parcel (or consignment of parcels posted at the same time for the same addressee).

Gift parcels: Gift parcels despatched from Hong Kong in accordance with regulations given on page 33 are liable to Customs duty but FAMILY GIFT PARCELS which are also subject to the regulations given on page 33 are admitted into Italy free of Customs charges if the following further con- ditions are observed.

(1) The parcels may contain only used clothing, food commodities, household goods and medicines for the personal use of the addressee or his family;

(2) The words FAMILY GIFT PARCEL (or perferably COLIS FAMILAL GRATUIT) must be written prominently on the exterior of the parcel, together with details of the contents and their value as well as on the relative Customs declaration forms..

IVORY COAST

LETTERS

Postage: first oz. 40c.; each additional oz. 25c.

Services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post (2) Printed papers (3) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb.; samples, limit 1 lb. (4) Small packets.

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