to minimize the risk, ask the tobacconist if he has some empty non Cuban boxes laying around, for most places do sell a few Dominicans or what not, then simply put the Cuban cigars in that, and you should be home free. When I had some cigars confiscated, the last time I had cigars mailed to me from my friend in the Netherlands, customs took the cigars out of the Cuban box, but two other boxes in the shipment they left alone. There were Cuban cigars in those boxes, but my friend put these in boxes that were of cigars made in the Netherlands.