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    Default Importing cuban cigars now legal?!?

    ...apparently so, though it's only small quantities at this point.

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifest...115-story.html

    This is pretty significant - did not expect for things to move this quickly.

    Anyone up for a VR Famosos split?

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    I didn't hear about any of this until the owner of my company, who occasionally has a cigar and knows I have more than an occasional said "So, I bet you'll be taking advantage of the new trade relaxation" and I was like "huh" and my wife recovered for me.
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    Love to get some more VR Famosos. Count me in.
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    You forgot this part:

    Only Congress can fully end the 54-year embargo.
    Never mind "moving quickly" nothing's really moving at all.

    I don't see Congress repealing the Trading With the Enemy Act anytime soon, if ever.
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    Yep, you can bring them back I think up to $100 and the travel restrictions have been eased. I didn't read the article so maybe that's addressed somewhere.
    Don't know that the internet purchase option would be legal. And besides, $100 value, please, are we all gonna smoke mini's and clubs?

    Anyway, in for a split. I was looking around a day or two ago and there are a couple multi-box deals out there......don't recall if VR famoso's were on it though.

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    I have been looking since Thanksgiving and haven't found any good deals. Guess I just don't know where to look. I would be in for a split of whatever you dudes would like if it were to happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ggiese View Post
    ...apparently so, though it's only small quantities at this point.

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifest...115-story.html

    This is pretty significant - did not expect for things to move this quickly.

    Anyone up for a VR Famosos split?

    I'd be up for that split. Your prices down in the US would be a whole lot better than ours up here.



    Quote Originally Posted by ashauler View Post
    Yep, you can bring them back I think up to $100 and the travel restrictions have been eased. I didn't read the article so maybe that's addressed somewhere.
    Don't know that the internet purchase option would be legal. And besides, $100 value, please, are we all gonna smoke mini's and clubs?

    Anyway, in for a split. I was looking around a day or two ago and there are a couple multi-box deals out there......don't recall if VR famoso's were on it though.
    That's what I read too, $100 worth and that's what you can bring back. No idea about ordering online.

    While the prices in Cuba vary from one cigar to the next (goes without saying), I suspect a decent cigar, like the VR Formosa, would run you around $200 for a box of 25. So that $100 is definitely not a big supply of cigars.

    It'd be nice if I could take some Cuban's with me when I travel south of the 49th. I'd love to bring some along to trade with my buddy that owns the Cigar store in CDA. We'll see.

    Oh, that article George linked, I laughed when I saw the picture of the lady selling cigars in the street. That's a dead giveaway that they're most definitely counterfeit and not what the seller is telling you they are.
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