So, if you can somehow get to Cuba and decided to bring back your $100 worth of cigars... then it follows that it is no longer illegal to possess or smoke Cuban cigars in the US. ??

:-k

bs_kwaj wrote:

smoking, possession, gifting, all legal to my understanding... selling, still against the law...

opelmanta1900 wrote:

smoking, possession, gifting, all legal to my understanding... selling, still against the law...

opelmanta1900 wrote:

When the law changed under Bush43 to cease allowing travel exemptions, the cigars that were legally brought in prior were grandfathered. You could keep them, but the regulations remained the same, they were only for your personal consumption, you could not gift, sell or trade them. If questioned on their origins, the burden of proof would be on you. What might happen in the future if the exemption goes away again, I can't say, but historically, that was what they did.









Completely false.

https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/36/~/importing-cuban-cigars 

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

I couldn't follow the link on my phone... But if you're saying its completely false, you can't possess smoke or gift them but you can sell them?

opelmanta1900 wrote:

LOL, yeah, that's the other side of the story... that it doesn't look like that much enforcement is going on aside from the occasional confiscation. CBP just wouldn't, or shouldn't, confiscate your cigars that they find when you pass through immigration back into the US after a licensed visit.

Doesn't make it any less illegal, it's just that no one seems to give a crap anymore.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

From first hand experience, customs was not concerned about someone bringing back a few cigars, but were rather concerned about those bringing in boxes of CC. The whole embargo thing just made them more popular here in the states.

tonygraz wrote: