Cuba lifts tariffs and restrictions on private food and medicines imports

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The exceptional measure, urgently passed by a Ministry of Finance and Prices resolution, will come into force next Monday and run until at least December 31, announced the number two of Miguel Díaz-Canel’s executive.

The announcement comes after a series of protests in several of the country’s localities, the largest in 60 years, in which part of demonstrators expressed their dissatisfaction with the government for the shortage of food, toiletries and medicines, as well as other issues such as power outages and lack of freedoms.

Cuba’s current legislation on baggage imports consists of a complex system of points and weight limits that establishes tariffs on excess items brought by travelers. In the case of medicines, up to 10 kilograms are allowed to be brought into the country.

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