Postal_Guide_September_1963 — Page 191

188 Overseas Post

PAKISTAN (continued)

Supplemental services available: Insurance below).

Insurance, air and surface, limit $1,840. (See

Customs declaration : Two non-adhesive forms and despatch note (a separate set for each parcel).

Customs declarations should show clearly the material of which goods are made, for example, silk stockings, cotton material, silver-plated cutlery. If books and photographs are enclosed in parcel with other articles their value should be shown separately. The net weight of the contents of parcels of 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; arms and parts thereof, munitions, military material, and appliances for discharging gas, unless imported by or on behalf of the Government of Pakistan; bronze or copper coins not of the Royal Mint of a Pakistan State; bulbs and plants, unless accompanied by a certificate in the form prescribed by the Pakistan authorities; charged butane gas lighters and refills; coffee plants, seeds or beans (except roasted beans); 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; labels or woven goods bearing designs in imitation of paper money; quinine coloured pink; sulphur.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Potatoes and certain seeds; silver bullion and silver sheets and plates; wireless transmitting apparatus.

A licence, to be obtained by the addressees in advance, is required for importa- tion into Pakistan by post from this country of almost all goods. The following, if they are for the personal use of the addressee, are excepted: books, magazines and medicines of value not exceeding 150 rupees. Senders are advised to con- firm before posting a parcel that the licence, when it is necessary, has been obtained by the addressees.

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 post-box numbers only, that is, without the actual address of the addressee, are inadmissible.

Insurance : The insured letter, box and parcel services are not available to the following places:-

Bela

Beredawel

Chachro

Chellar

Diplo

Ormara Rawatsar

Islamkot

Land Kamar

Liari

Shakardarra

Mithi

Nagar Parkar

Sonmiani Spinwam

Tanai

Thathi Nasratti Uthal Virawah

Customs duty and sales tax on the duty paid value is levied on all imports into Pakistan, but the duty is not collected on postal items upon which the amount payable would not exceed 12 annas.

Duplicate documents: Senders of commercial parcels should, in their own interests, forward by air mail, to the addressees in Pakistan, duplicates of all necessary documents, for example, (1) clear customs declaration, (2) certificate of origin and (3) invoice showing, separately, the value of each item enclosed in the parcel. The receipt of these duplicate documents in Pakistan 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.

PALESTINE See ISRAEL, or JORDAN or GAZA and KHAN YUNIS

PANAMA (Republic of)

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Letters

Air mail

Postcards Letters Postcards

First oz., 40c., 25c. Each oz., $2.00

$1.00

each oz. after, 25c.