Are Cuban cigars illegal in America if so whats in them to make illegal to have?

Answer 1

Cuban cigars are not by themselves illegal. It is illegal, based on the trading with the enemy act and the Cuban embagro to spend US dollars to buy Cuban goods. Cigars are goods. If you get them on a sanctioned visit I believe you can bring back 2 boxes (but only from Cuba). They can also be received as a gift.

To Sensible: The cruise folks are wrong. I have Italian and Brazilian friends who travel into the US with Cubans all the time. They show their passport. Sometimes customs dickers with them but that is out of ignorance.

Answer 2

The cigar became inextricably intertwined with U.S. political history on February 7, 1962, when United States President John F. Kennedy imposed a trade embargo on Cuba to sanction Fidel Castro's communist government. According to Pierre Salinger, then Kennedy's press secretary, the president ordered him on the evening of February 6 to obtain a thousand H. Upmann brand petit corona Cuban cigars; upon Salinger's arrival with the cigars the following morning, Kennedy signed the executive order which put the embargo into effect.[2]

The embargo prohibited US residents from legally purchasing what were considered the finest cigars on the market, and Cuba was deprived its major customer for tobacco.

In the United States, authentic Cuban-made cigars are widely considered to be "the best smoking experience" of all cigars and are seen as "forbidden fruit" for Americans to purchase, although many formerly Cuban cigar manufacturers moved to other countries, in many cases the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Nicaragua and continued to manufacture cigars.

As of 2007 it remains illegal for US residents to purchase or import Cuban cigars[3], although they are readily available across the northern border in Canada, and small quantities can in practice be brought back without trouble from US Customs if the bands are removed prior to crossing. Whil Cuban cigars are smuggled into the USA and sold at high prices, counterfeiting is rife; it has been said that 95% of Cuban cigars sold in the USA are counterfeit[2]. Although Cuban cigars cannot legally be imported into the USA, the advent of the Internet has made it much easier for people in the United States to purchase cigars online from other countries.

in short its all about politics

Answer 3

There is an embargo on all Cuban products being brought into the US. The embargo includes Cuban goods brought in from third countries. For example a few years ago my father bought some Cuban cigars for my grandfather when he was overseas. US customs initially gave him a problem about bringing them into the country but they eventually allowed it.

Answer 4

Cigar tastes are extemely subjective and dependant on one's journey and alternatives. We in the U.S. evaluate Cuban's the 'suitable' via Forbidden Fruit Syndrome. mutually as they're stable, they're not extra appropriate than Honduran, Dominican or Nicaraguan cigars - purely distinctive.. And specific, there are a lot of cigars very plenty well worth attempting. some stable manufacturers: Fuente Davidoff Rocky Patel CAO Ashton San Cristobal Punch Hoyo de Monterrey Cabaiguan Camacho Gran Habano just to call some.......

Answer 5

Cuban cigars are banned in the U.S. because of where they are made, not due to the ingredients used.

There are places to get good, hand rolled cigars. Ybor City, near Tampa Florida, still has cigar factories-some still run by Cuban immigrants. There are several torcedors is Ybor City who work for smaller shops too. The cigars made in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua are very similar to cigars rolled in Cuba.

Answer 6

It is the embargo. I disagree with Abstracted_nyer though. When I took a cruise to Grand Cayman island, they sold Cuban cigars there. We were told that Americans could not bring them back and ALSO warned the Canadian travelers that they could not "send" or carry them back if their airplane was going to fly over the U.S.

Answer 7

Well yes they are illegal. Since 1962 the USA has had an EMBARGO against Cuba. This EMBARGO makes it illegal to visit Cuba and also illegal to import goods (such as cigars) from Cuba.

Answer 8

Fidel Castro has a minimizing ray. Like on Honey I Shrunk the kids...So he minimizes a bunch of his cuban army and rolls them into the cigars. And then attempts to have them smuggled into the USA. Once here he has a contact that has the can re-enlarge them so that he can have an Army on US Soil....He's still a little ticked off about our Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba.

Answer 9

Yes. They are illegal because there is a trade embargo between the United States and Cuba, not because of anything in them.

Answer 10

Cuban tobacco and the (evil, communistic) labor of Cubans. The real problem, of course, is that if we normalize relations with Cuba, the price of sugar in the US (roughly 5X the world market price) will collapse. Domino and its cohorts pay oodles of money to keep Los Hermanos Cubanos al Rescate in business and oodles more to Congress to keep the evil, free market Cuban sugar off our shores.