ejenne87:

I am in Afghanistan right now. I have shipped many cigars from here back to the states. Most of the time, the customs people have no idea what they are looking at, so if they give you trouble just keep insisting they are not Cubans. They will not seize them, so just take the bands off and you can send them that way. Last time I was here I sent an entire un-opened box of R&J back. The bow clearly said "Hecho en Cuba" on it, the customs official even looked at the stamp and let it go anyways. I know they will not say anything if you have them with you in your baggage, even if the bag is searched. Remember, it is legal to bring Cubans back to the US. You can only bring a limited quantity though (Cubans are for sale in just about every duty free shop on the Canada-US boarder).

If you run in to troubles and have more questions feel free to PM me and I can teach you some tricks I use from time to time when I get a stubborn Customs Official.

Hey Evan

I don't mean to burst a bubble here, but for any US-born citizen it is illegal to purchase, own, or bring into this country anything from Cuba, including cigars. The trade embargo technically extends to the fact that US-born citizens are legally not allowed to buy Cuban cigars anywhere in the world, but obviously nobody is going to enforce that any more than people are going to stop bringing Cubans into the country. I for one am all for trying all cigars, Cubans included (Cohiba... :-D).

The exception to this, however, is citizens that are from Cuba or have family in Cuba may bring a limited quantity of Cuban cigars into the country for personal consumption. Typically this means that if you're bringing in a box, it has to be opened and one or more of them smoked. If you show up with dufflebags filled with sticks (even if you really ARE going to smoke them all lol), they are going to get seized.

Of course, all of this is totally dependent upon US Customs actually catching and/or caring about your sticks, but technically that is the law.

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