Dutch Cigar

I have a question for all you knowledgeable cigar smokers.
My sister while visiting Belgium purchased some cigars and sent them to me. One was a cigar of Dutch origin. In doing some research on the cigar I discovered it was a five country blend. One of those countries being Cuba. If a Dutch cigar uses a small amount of Cuban Tobacco in the filler. Does this cigar violate the US embargo? Or is it a legal cigar in the USA. I know these cigars are not sold in the USA but that could be for a number of reasons. There are many European brands not distributed in the USA. The box makes no mention of the embargoed state, and the tax stamps are of European origin.
I ask because if you where to walk into a cigar shop in Europe and purchase these cigars. You would have no idea of the fillers origin unless
you researched it online. One would have no idea they where commiting a crime by bringing them into The United States.

Yes.

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Originally Posted by ashauler

Yes.

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Yes legal ? or yes it's a violation ?

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Originally Posted by Paddy

Yes legal ? or yes it's a violation ?

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I only saw one question mark. :smiley2:

Go here: http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforce...ba/ccigar2.pdf
Look in the section for third countries.....point 3.

Maybe I should have been a librarian. Nah, I'd probably start watching project runway and shit.

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Originally Posted by ashauler

I only saw one question mark. :smiley2:

Go here: http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforce...ba/ccigar2.pdf
Look in the section for third countries.....point 3.

Maybe I should have been a librarian. Nah, I'd probably start watching project runway and shit.

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You already do :smiley36:

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Originally Posted by ashauler

Maybe I should have been a librarian. Nah, I'd probably start watching project runway and shit.

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ouch. :smiley18:

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Originally Posted by ashauler

I only saw one question mark. :smiley2:

Go here: http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforce...ba/ccigar2.pdf
Look in the section for third countries.....point 3.

Maybe I should have been a librarian. Nah, I'd probably start watching project runway and shit.

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Thanks for the info. What I also found amazing from that link (I did not know this)
as a green card holder it is illegal for me to go home to Ireland & buy a cuban cigar.
That just seems wrong to me on many levels. I understand the US can make laws to govern with in it's own boarders. But to tell an Irish citizen just because he has a green card he is unable to purchase a legal item in the country of his birth is overstepping a bit.Yes, I agreed to live by US laws when I applied for my Green Card, but I never gave up my Irish Citizenship. I'm an Irishman first and fore most. The dutch cigars mentioned above, I had not knowledge of the tobacco's origin until I hit Goggle this morning.

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Originally Posted by ashauler

I only saw one question mark. :smiley2:

Go here: http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforce...ba/ccigar2.pdf
Look in the section for third countries.....point 3.

Maybe I should have been a librarian. Nah, I'd probably start watching project runway and shit.

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Jamie,
By the way how did you find that so fast ? I spent two fucking hours goggle'in my ass off and could not find the answer to my question.

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Originally Posted by ndv21

You already do :smiley36:

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Who asked the thumb? :smiley44: :smiley36:

Paddy,
I, uh, googled it. :smiley5: lol

Maybe it's the LIBRARIAN in him.

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Originally Posted by mrtr33

ouch. :smiley18:

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Found it's Mark. :smiley31:

Hey, I stated for day #1 on this forum. Computer are not my forte.
I'm a hunt & peck man from way back.
Besides, it's hard to google, when you have a drink in one hand & a cigar in the other! :smiley2:

With a drink in one hand and a cigar in the other, I don't want to know what your typing with paddy:smiley36:

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Originally Posted by Mangyrat

With a drink in one hand and a cigar in the other, I don't want to know what your typing with paddy:smiley36:

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You dirty minded bastard. :smiley15: