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Information on sending a shipment to Cuba

Prohibited commodities
Standard DHL prohibitions plus:
    Animal products
    Animal skins
    Antiques
    Furs
    Gambling devices
    Ivory
    Jewellery
    Military equipment
    Perishables
    Plant products
    Plants
    Playing cards
    Precious metals & stones
Certain commodities need to be accompanied by an invoice and, in some cases, additional customs documentation. Other commodities are considered as 'Documents' and only require a DHL Airwaybill to be completed. The following list explains what you need to do in order to ship various commodities.
Document Commodities
(Require a DHL Airwaybill) 		Commodities where you should contact your local customer service Department to clarify shipping requirements.

Advertising brochures/pamphlets
Airline tickets, issued/validated
Annual reports
Blueprints
Business cards
Cash letters (NI)
Charts/graphs
Cheques, cancelled (NI)
Cheques, cashier (NI)
Computer printouts
Credit card blanks (NI)
Credit cards (NI)
Diaries
Diplomatic mail
Documents, general business
Invoices, blank
Invoices, not blank
Manuscripts
Maps
Money orders (NI)
Music, printed or manuscript
Newspapers
Passports
Personal mail
Photographs
Plans/drawings-arch/indust/eng. pur
Price lists
Price tickets for garments
Publication not for public resale
Publications for public resale
Shipping schedules
Transparencies
Visa applications
 		Alcoholic beverages
Booklets, brochures (non-adv.)
Books: hardbk/paperbk non-comm. use
Catalogues
Coffee
Cologne and perfume
Communications equipment
Computer components & parts
Cosmetics
Cotton
Drugs: non-prescription
Drugs: prescription
Electronic equipment
Electronic games
Fabrics & fabric samples
Films: 8mm, 16mm & 35mm
Films: promotional, training
Fire extinguishers
Foodstuffs
Industrial equipment
Jewellery, costume
Leather goods
Magazines, periodicals, journals
Manuals, technical
Measuring apparatus
Medical samples
Medical/dental supplies & equipment
Oil products
Pamphlets
Parts, machine & electronic
Personal effects
Phones/modems
Photos as part of business reports
Plastic made products
Radar equip.-transmitters/receivers
Radio equipment
Radios or parts thereof
Samples, textile
Ship manifest-computer generated
Shoes
Soil samples
Sports equipment
Stone/mineral samples for analysis
Subs. cont'g sodium/calc. cyclamate
Swatches
Tapes: audio cassettes
Telecommunications equipment
Televisions, television equipment
Textile articles
Toys

All other commodities should be shipped via DHL Parcel Express and should be accompanied by an Airwaybill and Invoice.
Restrictions

If your shipment exceeds any of the following limits, it may require special handling, please contact your local country customer service department.

Size : Length 90 cms (35 ins), Width 90 cms (35 ins), Height 90 cms (35 ins)
Weight : Max. weight per shipment : 250.0 kgs (551.0 lbs),
Max. weight per piece : 50.0 kgs (110.0 lbs)