If you take labels off of cuban cigars can they catch you?
If you are sneaking cuban cigars over from another country and just have the cigars in your pocket with the labels off how can they catch you? How would they know its a cuban cigar and what is the penalty for being caught?
To answer an earlier question from another poster yes Cuban Cigars are illegal (until Castro dies) from anywhere. It would be kind of pointless to have an embargo against a country if we allowed them to trans ship to the US through 3rd parties.
To answer this question, all items coming to the US must have country of origin labels on them. If your cigars don't have them we could technically take them. The fact is though we really don't care that much. We are not going out looking for Cuban Cigars, we just have to take them if we find them. Even then it is a little iffy. If we have a line in secondary of good targets, we could care less about your four Cuban cigars.
The penalty if we decide to seize them is we take them and cut them up and you go on your way, no big deal.
By the way, most of the "Cuban" Cigars we see coming through are not actually Cubans. There are a lot of people taking advantage of the embargo and selling some poor quality cigars, We can tell when we break them and they are the driest crap you can imagine.
5 Responses to “If you take labels off of cuban cigars can they catch you?”
30 years in the Federal Penn. Just kidding. they will simply keep them. if there are no labels they will know why there are no labels.
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not worth it
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I do not think Cuban cigars are illegal in the U.S. They just can not be imported from Cuba because of the Cuba embargo on any thing coming from Cuban. If they are coming from an other country they would not be illegal. It would also depend on how many cigars you are bringing in to the U.S. I do believe you would have to pay some kind on U.S tax and probably a state tax on the cigars. There are probably some sites to check on importing cigars on the Internet, but to much work for 2 points. Hope some one get back with the right in for for you. You know the tax men are the toughest to deal with, they even were the only ones to get any thing on Al Copone and put hin away
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Me, but not sure on importing laws.
To answer an earlier question from another poster yes Cuban Cigars are illegal (until Castro dies) from anywhere. It would be kind of pointless to have an embargo against a country if we allowed them to trans ship to the US through 3rd parties.
To answer this question, all items coming to the US must have country of origin labels on them. If your cigars don't have them we could technically take them. The fact is though we really don't care that much. We are not going out looking for Cuban Cigars, we just have to take them if we find them. Even then it is a little iffy. If we have a line in secondary of good targets, we could care less about your four Cuban cigars.
The penalty if we decide to seize them is we take them and cut them up and you go on your way, no big deal.
By the way, most of the "Cuban" Cigars we see coming through are not actually Cubans. There are a lot of people taking advantage of the embargo and selling some poor quality cigars, We can tell when we break them and they are the driest crap you can imagine.
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Me- CBP Officer
Don't they get wet when you swim in from Cuba? Wet foot, dry foot dosen't work so well with tobacco.
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