196 Overseas Post
PORTUGAL (continued)
Prohibitions: Butane gas lighters and refills; tobacco.
Restrictions apply to the importation of medicines.
Customs duty : Bound or sewn books are liable to customs duty.
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface
Not over 2lb.
3lb.
71b.
11lb. 22lb.
(via Marseille)
Each lb., $9.00
Air mail
$7.50 8.00 9.50 12.00 23.00
Supplemental services available: Insurance, air and surface, limit $1,840.
Customs declaration and language: Four non-adhesive forms and despatch note. Portuguese or French as well as English.
Prohibitions: Letters; bonds and orders payable to bearer, except in insured parcels; butane gas lighters and refills; tobacco (unless addressed to members of the Diplomatic Corps); unobliterated postage and other stamps. Restrictions apply to the importation of: and similar substances.
Arms; medicines; plants; saccharin,
Import licences: With certain exceptions, parcels containing goods up to the value of 2,500 escudos may be imported into Portugal without an import licence or prior registration. An import licence is required for all parcels containing goods exceeding 2,500 escudos in value,
Invoice: An invoice certified by a Portuguese consular representative is required in respect of each consignment of goods over 550 escudos in value. These invoices should not accompany the parcels but should be sent direct to the addressee. Packing: Celluloid (seasoned), films and other articles made of celluloid must be packed in soldered tin boxes enclosed in strong wooden boxes.
PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
First oz., 40c., 25c.
cach oz. after, 25c.
65c.
Letters Postcards Letters Each oz., $1.30 Postcards
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,840 (principal towns only). (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $1,840 (principal towns only). (5) printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (7) Samples, limit 1 lb. (8) Blind literature.
Customs declarations and language: (1) Green label and one non-adhesive form. (4) One non-adhesive form. Portuguese or French as well as English.
Prohibitions: Coin, gold, jewellery, platinum, precious stones, silver, except in insured boxes; bank-notes, currency notes and documents payable to bearer except in insured letters; patent medicines, except under permit.
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface
Not over
$5.00 5.50 7.00 9.00
21b. 3lb. 7lb. 11lb.
2216. 17.00
Air mail
No service
Supplemental services available: Insurance, surface only, limit $1,840. Customs declarations : One non-adhesive form and despatch note.
Prohibitions: Letters; arms, except under permit; patent medicines, except under permit. No permit is, however, necessary in the case of patent medicines for places in the territory of the Mozambique Company.
Invoice: An invoice certified by a Portuguese consular representative is required in respect of each consignment of goods over 550 escudos in value. These invoices should not accompany the parcels but should be sent direct to the addressee,
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