Page 110 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

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Overseas Post: Foreign Countries, contd

BANGLADESH (Peoples Republic of)
Prohibitions: Letters, except one for the addressee; coffee plants, seeds or
beans (except roasted beans); cotton and woollen piece-goods such as are
ordinarily sold by length or by the piece, imported for trade purposes and not
stamped to indicate the length in yards or fractions thereof; arms and parts
thereof, amunitions; military material and appliances for discharging gas, unless
imported by or on behalf of the Government of Bangladesh; bronze or copper
coins, coffee plants, seeds and beans except roasted beans); charged butane gas
lighters and refills; labels or woven goods bearing designs in imitation of paper
money; quinine coloured pink; sulphur, literature relating to and tickets for
lotteries.
Restrictions: Potatoes and seeds, gold and silver bullion and silver sheets and
plates; plants and parts of plants; wireless transmitting apparatus,
A licence, to be obtained by the addressee in advance, is required for importa­
tion into Bangladesh by post of almost all goods.
Gift parcels: Imported licences are not required for gift parcels of books,
magazines, journals and medicines, or for gift parcels for foreign nationals of
other goods excluding textiles (not made-up garments), imitation jewellery,
watches and watchbands, fountain pens, cameras and radio sets, up to a value of
300 Taka a year.
Address: The name of the province in which the place of address is situated
should be included in the address.
Parcels addressed to post-box numbers only, that is without the actual address
of the addressee, are inadmissible.
Customs duty and Sales Tax on the duty paid is levied on all imports into
Bangladesh but the duty is not collected on postal items upon which the amount
payable would not exceed 2.50 Taka.
Duplicate documents: Senders of commercial parcels should forward by airmail
directly to the addressee in Bangladesh, duplicates of all necessary documents,
for example, (1) clear customs declaration, (2) certificate of origin and (3) invoice
showing, separately, the value of each item enclosed in the parcel. The receipt of
these duplicate documents in Bangladesh prior to the arrival of the parcels will
facilitate customs clearance.
Compensation is not payable for damage to porcelain, glassware and other
exceptionally fragile articles.
BARBADOS
Letter Post
Surface l See Schedules of Letter Rates.
Air Mail /
Dutiable articles may be sent by letter and small packet post—up to $100 green
label required; thereafter top green label and form C2/CP3.
Insurance: Limit $120.
Prohibitions: See under Parcel Post.
Pared Post
Surface l See Schedule of Overseas Surface and Air Parcel Post Rat®5 '
Air