Import and export of the following items is prohibited:
- DRUGS AND STUPEFACIENTS
- EXPLOSIVES
- OBJECTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, LITERATURE AND / OR ANY OTHER PRONOGRAPHIC ARTICLE OR ITEMS ATTEMPTING AGAINST GOOD MANNERS.
- ANY ITEM - INCLUDING LITETATURE - ATTEMPTING AGAINST THE SECURITY AND INTERNAL ORDER OF THE COUNTRY.
- ANIMALS, PLANTS AND THEIR PARTS LISTED IN ANEX No.1 OF THE C.I.T.E.S. CONVENTION (RELATED TO ENDANGERED AND PROTECTEC SPECIES).
Import by travelers of the following items is prohibited:
- Electric power plants (generators)
- Video equipments of all types, notwithstanding the country of manufacture or brand, including those produced and sold in the market as built-in accesories for other equipments (VCR, DVD, Play Station 2, etc.) Shall be exempted from this prohibition foreign diplomatic personnel, Cuban officials having stayed abroad for over a year, as well as individuals authorized to import household ménage.
- Radio transmission equipment and transceivers;
- Wireless telephones that operate in bands different than 40-49 MHz and 2,4 and 5 GHz
- wireless microphones
- Wireless Facsimile terminals;
- Telephone switchboards and equipment;
- Professional Radio and TV receivers differing from household models;
- Geo-positioning equipment (GPS );
- Satellite receiver antennas and stations;
- Satellite communications ground stations.
- Freezers of more than seven cubic feet of capacity;
- Air conditioners;
- Electric kitchens and furnaces - of all types, models and capacities
- Electric ovens - of all types, models and capacities, including micro waves.
- Electric showers - of all types, models and capacities
- Electric fryers - of all types, models and capacities
- Electric water heaters
- Electric irons without sprinkler consuming over 290 watts/hour or electric irons with sprinkler consuming over 703 watts/hour
- Electric bread toasters
- Electric resistances for irons, furnaces, water heaters, etc.
