The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1922-07-29
Many Articles
May Now Be Sent
to Soviet Russia
Bulletin is Issued by United
States Post-Ofice Authorities

The Russian Council of Peoples
Commissars has issued a decree on
the following amendments to the pre-
vious regulations in regard to the
sending of goods to Russia by parcel
post from abroad;
1. The following goods are per.
mitted to be sent by parcel post to
private individuals for their personal
use without special permission from
the Commissariat for Foreign Trade
on condition that customs dues there.
on are paid according to the tariff in
force, in the case of those articles
which are not free from duty.
(a) All foodstuffs with the ex-
ception of perishable ones (condi-
ions on which such foodstuffs are ex-
mpted from customs duties are emu
Grated in Paragraph 81.
CD Printed matter, manuscripts.
Photographs, drawings. illustrations,
md all kinds of documents with the
RECEPTION of those of which the i'm
ort is prohibited.
(c) All kinds of cloth and fab
les, clothing garments, underwear,
.ead-dress and other articles of at.
ire, footwear, table and bed linen,
watches, eyeglasses, thermometers.
kitchen and table utensils, small
household implements, articles for
ousehold repair (nails, wire string.
aste, etc. spoons, knives and forks.
nd other small household utensils.
(d) Musical instruments and ac.
cessories thereto.
te) instruments for professional
use and all necessary accessories
thereto.
CD Articles of general use such
ordinary and toilet soap, station
cry, haberdashery, etc.
go Medicaments.
NOTE.-Compound and patent
medicines are permitted only on con-
dition that the addressee produces
he prescription of Soviet physician.
Ordinary medicines, such as boracic
cid, quinine, iodine, potassium per
nanganate, aspirin. soda, dispensary
oods, sodium sulphate, xeroform, Ii
Cuid soap, sodium salicilate, glycer-
ne, yaseline, etc, are permitted with.
out physicians prescriptions.
2. In case the customs authorities
find that the quantity of parcels sent
private individuals and the nature
OF goods contained in them are not
or the personal use of the addressee,
ut for sale, such goods come under
he general regulations of the i'm
ort of consignments from abroad.
and for the impodrt of which it is
necessary to obtain a special permit
rom the NarkOmvneshtorg and TO
ay the allotted duties.
3. The following foodstuffs sent in
arcels to private individuals for
heir own use and also~to organiza-
lions engaged in relief work in the
Republic are, until January l. 1928,
emporarily exempt from customs du-
les. Such organizations may even
eceiye whole consignments of goods
the conditions that excise is col
lected on such goods as are subject
it. in accordance with the general
equations:
Butter; cheese; chicory; chocolate;
cocoa powder; coffee; fish, -four and
rain; fOodstuffs not enumerated
separately; fruits and berries and
dried berries and others. other than
candied; honey; lemons; macaroni;
meats. salted, cured, dried, roasted
and cooked; milk, condensed and
dried: milk foods, patent; oranges;
potato flour; rice; sage; sausages
ugar; tea; vegetables; vegetable oils;
and yermicelli.
Notices issued by this office pre-
viously concerning the parcel-post
service to Russia are modified ac.
cordingly.
CHASE c. COVE
Acting Second Assistant Postmaster