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192 Overseas Post

PARAGUAY (continued)

Invoice: All goods with a value in excess of 70 United States dollars, or the equivalent in other currencies, must be accompanied by consular and commercial invoices made out in Spanish and duly legalized.

Gift parcels : Gifts are exempt from the prior deposit requirements and a consular invoice is not required provided the value is below 25 U.S. dollars. Customs duties and other charges are payable by the addressee.

Packing: Each article of celluloid or roll of film must be packed separately. Delivery: Parcels are not delivered to the place of address, but have to be collected by the addressees. Customs dues, warehousing charges, etc., are collected from the addressees when the parcels are handed over.

PERSIA See IRAN

PERSIAN GULF Sec BAHRAIN, KUWAIT, MUSCAT, QATAR and the TRUCIAL STATES

PERU

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Letters

Air mail

Postcards

Letters Postcards

First oz., 40c., each oz. after, 25c.

25c.

Each + oz., $2.50

Supplemental services available:

$1.25

(1) Green label service, registered letter post. (4) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (5)

(2) Registration. (3) Printed papers. Samples, limit 1 lb. (6) Blind literature. Customs declarations and language: (1) Green label and one non-adhesive form for green label packets. Spanish or French as well as English. Prohibitions. Bank-notes, coin, documents payable to bearer; communist litera- ture; platinum, gold or silver whether manufactured or not; playing cards; samples of cigars, cigarettes and tobacco; precious stones, jewels and other precious objects.

Restrictions apply to the importation of pharmaceutical specialities; cosmetics; tobacco; cigarettes; salt; wines and spirits; playing cards.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

Not over 2lb. 3lb.

71b.

11lb. 22lb. $9.00 11.00 12.00 15.00 25.00 Each lb., $12.00

Air mail

Supplemental services available: None. Customs declaration and language: Spanish or French as well as English. Prohibitions : Letters; arms and parts thereof; cigars, cigarettes and tobacco; communist literature; playing cards; worn clothing, unless accompanied by a certificate of disinfection from a competent authority and authenticated by a Peruvian consular officer.

One non-adhesive form and despatch note.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Pharmaceutical specialities; plants, parts of plants, bulbs, seeds and so on; saccharin; tobacco; cigarettes; cosmetics; salt; wines and spirits; playing cards.

Gift parcels: There are no duty concessions for gift parcels and their contents are subject to customs duties and other charges in the same way as ordinary commercial consignment.

Invoice: A consular invoice is required for each parcel, or consignment of parcels posted at the same time to one addressee, if there is a Peruvian consulate in the locality and the value of the goods is 50 or more U.S. dollars or the equivalent in other currencies. The invoice must be legalized before the despatch of the parcel, otherwise a charge equal to 25 per cent of the value of the goods is levied in Peru. In places where there is no Peruvian Consulate, the consular invoice may be dispensed with, provided that these circumstances are indicated by

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