Postal_Guide_September_1963 — Page 122

Overseas Post 119

DUTCH GUIANA See SURINAM

DUTCH NEW GUINEA See WEST NEW GUINEA

DUTCH WEST INDIES (Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire, St. Maarten (or St. Martin), St. Eustatius, Saba) See NETHERLANDS ANTILLES

ECUADOR

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards Letters Postcards

First oz., 40c., 25c.

each oz. after, 25c.

$1.25

Each 1 oz., $2.50

Supplemental services available : (1) Green label service, registered letter and registered sample post. (2) Registration.

(2) Registration. (3) Printed papers, (4) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (5) Samples, limit 1 lb. (6) Small packets. (7) Blind literature. Customs declarations and language: (1) and (6) Green label and two non-adhesive forms. Spanish or French as well as English.

Prohibitions: Bank-notes, currency notes, coin.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Plants and seeds. Import licences are required for all goods. Gifts are regarded in the same way as commercial consign- ments, i.c. customs duties are normally levied on the contents and many goods are prohibited. An import licence is not required if the value of the packet does not exceed 40 U.S. dollars.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

Not over

(direct)

(via London-

insured only)

Air mail

21b.

316. 716. 11lb. 221b. $ 8.50 8.50 10.50 13.00 21.50 $11.00 12.50 14.00 17.00 28.00

Each lb., $12.00

Supplemental services available: Insurance, limit $560, surface (via London) only confined to Bahia-de-Caraquez, Guayaquil & Quito.

Customs declaration and language: Three non-adhesive forms and despatch note. Prohibitions: Letters; arms; gaming appliances. The importation of many other classes of goods into Ecuador is prohibited.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Alcoholic beverages; cigarette paper; cotton goods; manufactured or leaf tobacco; pharmaceutical products; plants and seeds. A certificate of disinfection and a statement giving details of the contents must accompany all parcels containing used clothing. Import licences are required for all goods.

Gift parcels Gifts are regarded in the same way as commercial consignments, i.e. customs duties are normally levied on the contents and many goods are prohibited. An import licence is not required if the value of the parcel does not exceed 40 U.S. dollars.

Invoice : A consular invoice should be sent separately by letter post to the addressee for every parcel or consignment of parcels for one addressee, of which the value exceeds 40 U.S. dollars or its equivalent in sucres at the official rate of exchange, sent from a place in which an Ecuadorean consular officer is resident; otherwise a fine is imposed by the Ecuadorean authorities. For parcels containing goods of value below 40 U.S. dollars or its equivalent in sucres, the importers have to pay in the Customs an amount equivalent to the consular fees. Commercial parcels are liable to confiscation unless the addressee holds an import permit from the Central Bank (of Ecuador).

Charges: Charges for inland conveyance are collected from the addressces, except at Bahia, Esmeraldas, Guayaquil and Manta.