State Again Publishes List of Imports Banned from Cuba

April 22, 2015 |State Department

The State Department re-affirmed in a Federal Register notice the list of Cuban entrepreneurial imports the U.S. continues to ban, after publishing the initial list in February (see 1502170024). State again outlined the Harmonized Tariff Schedule classification that the U.S. prohibits (here). The banned HTS areas are as follows:

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Section I: Live Animals; Animal Products (All Chapters)
Section II: Vegetable Products (All Chapters)
Section III: Animal or Vegetable Fats and Oils and their Cleavage Products; Prepared Edible Fats; Animal or Vegetable Waxes (All Chapters)
Section IV: Prepared Foodstuffs; Beverages, Spirits, and Vinegar; Tobacco and Manufactured Tobacco Substitutes (All Chapters)
Section V: Mineral Products (All Chapters)
Section VI: Products of the Chemical or Allied Industries (Chapters 28-32; 35-36, 38)
Section XI: Textile and Textile Articles (Chapters 51-52)
Section XV: Base Metals and Articles of Base Metal (Chapters 72-81)
Section XVI: Machinery and Mechanical Appliances; Electrical Equipment; Parts Thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of Such Articles (All Chapters)
Section XVII: Vehicles, Aircraft, Vessels, and Associated Transportation Equipment (All Chapters)
Section XIX: Arms and Ammunition; Parts and Accessories Thereof (All Chapters)

(Federal Register 04/23/15)