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Import rates are different for business and personal use. The lines have been blurred because so many businesses have imported large quantities under their personal name to try to avoid taxes.

Yes, under 100 cigars you are not required to pay import fees. For pipe tobacco anything under 1 kilogram you are not required to pay them either. The problem you can run into is that the shipper may not realize this and mark them as “duties due” which signals that they didn’t pay any taxes in their country so you’ll have to here before they can be sent through customs.

Almost every country we buy cigars from ship from free trade zones. So the tariff bùllshit all the manufacturers have used as an excuse to raise prices is just that…bùllshit. The tariff on tobacco products from every Central American country and the Dominican before it all started was 10%. It is still 10%. Tobacco was exempt from all the ruckus, never mind all of the free trade zones.