Thread: Fly Fishing in Loreto Mexico and cigars

I'm headed to Loreto in a few weeks and would like to bring back some Cubans, can I legally bring some back or am I going to have to smuggle them in?

I made the mistake of bringing some Cubans into the states from Canada on a camping trip. When asked by the border service officer, I answered honestly. He complimented my honesty and told me to pull over and destroy them into a garbage can while another officer watched. No fine, but no cigars either : (

Originally Posted by DZEC

I made the mistake of bringing some Cubans into the states from Canada on a camping trip. When asked by the border service officer, I answered honestly. He complimented my honesty and told me to pull over and destroy them into a garbage can while another officer watched. No fine, but no cigars either : (

I don't understand why that happened, I get Cubans mailed to me from Canada all the time.

Originally Posted by quindecima

I don't understand why that happened, I get Cubans mailed to me from Canada all the time.

It was a few years ago, after Mr. Obama had made friendly gestures to Cuba, but the embargo, on cigars anyway, was still in place as far as the U.S. border service officer in New York was concerned. The officer who will witnessed my cigar sacrifice was sympathetic, but I drove away without my campfire stogies.

If you do buy Cubans and are worried about losing them, just remove the cigar rings. They can’t prove they are Cubans.

Originally Posted by DPeet

If you do buy Cubans and are worried about losing them, just remove the cigar rings. They can’t prove they are Cubans.

Unfortunately, I didn’t think of that until I was driving away from the customs area. A big forehead slap occurred about then.

Originally Posted by quindecima

I don't understand why that happened, I get Cubans mailed to me from Canada all the time.

If the customs form said cigars and US customs were not curious or had something better to do they slide through. If US customs opens the package and sees the labels saying Cuban cigars it becomes another story. They are a banned item to import to the US.

Bob

Originally Posted by DPeet

If you do buy Cubans and are worried about losing them, just remove the cigar rings. They can’t prove they are Cubans.

I had actually thought abvout buying a box of Mexican cigars and exchanging the labels with the Cubans.

Originally Posted by quindecima

I had actually thought abvout buying a box of Mexican cigars and exchanging the labels with the Cubans.

Unless you get a Customs Inspector who is in a bad mood that day and he suspects and sends then to the lab for analysis. Then you be in a heap of trouble.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Unless you get a Customs Inspector who is in a bad mood that day and he suspects and sends then to the lab for analysis. Then you be in a heap of trouble.

The NSA has probably already intercepted this message and will be waiting for me at the POE