Executive action on Cuban goods

[Belsnickel]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/10/14/obama-cuba-regulations-expands-trade-travel-rum-cigars/92042662/

Quote:MIAMI — Attention U.S. travelers going abroad: You now can bring home all the Cuban rum and cigars you want.

The Obama administration announced Friday a new round of executive actions designed to increase trade and travel with the communist island. And this is the one many Americans have been waiting for — no more restrictions on the island's famed rum and cigars.

Under the new rules, which go into effect Monday, travelers can purchase unlimited quantities of Cuban rum and cigars in any country where they are sold so long as they are for personal consumption. Sorry American couch potatoes: You can't order Cuban rum and cigars online and have them shipped to your home.

Now, it will be some time before we can purchase things like cigars and rum here in the US from Cuba because of trademark situations that the article doesn't go into. Romeo y Julieta, Cohiba, Bolivar, Partagas, Punch, H. Upmman, Hoyo de Monterrey, Montecristo, Trinidad, San Cristobal, Saint Luis Rey, La Gloria Cubana, and the list goes on. All of those brands are trademarked by SA Habana, and by tobacco companies in the US. So in order for these to be sold here there has to be a lot of things hashed out, especially since the trademarks were filed for by families that escaped revolutionary Cuba. Now, most of these trademarks are now owned by international behemoths, but those families that escaped are still a big part of the tobacco industry (see Fuente and Padron) and so it could be a very interesting road ahead.

But, this is something the industry has had plans for in place for a long time. Those lobbyists are hard at work right now, I am sure.

[Dill]

(10-14-2016, 03:04 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/10/14/obama-cuba-regulations-expands-trade-travel-rum-cigars/92042662/


Now, it will be some time before we can purchase things like cigars and rum here in the US from Cuba because of trademark situations that the article doesn't go into. Romeo y Julieta, Cohiba, Bolivar, Partagas, Punch, H. Upmman, Hoyo de Monterrey, Montecristo, Trinidad, San Cristobal, Saint Luis Rey, La Gloria Cubana, and the list goes on. All of those brands are trademarked by SA Habana, and by tobacco companies in the US. So in order for these to be sold here there has to be a lot of things hashed out, especially since the trademarks were filed for by families that escaped revolutionary Cuba. Now, most of these trademarks are now owned by international behemoths, but those families that escaped are still a big part of the tobacco industry (see Fuente and Padron) and so it could be a very interesting road ahead.

But, this is something the industry has had plans for in place for a long time. Those lobbyists are hard at work right now, I am sure.

As a cigar lover, I hope this situation is resolved soon.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

Now that they are legal, they just became 50% less enjoyable.

Isn't that how that works?

[Belsnickel]

(10-15-2016, 11:59 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Now that they are legal, they just became 50% less enjoyable.

Isn't that how that works?

Pretty much.

Don't get me wrong, a Diplomaticos No. 2 or a RyJ Cedros deluxe No. 2 can both really hit the spot, but I can just as easily sit down with a Fuente Añejo Shark or an Ashton VSG Robusto and be happy

[*michaelsean*]

I never was able to appreciate the superiority of Cuban cigars. I don't doubt it, but Im happy with my Nics, Hondurans and Dominicans, and I am not looking forward to seeing a bunch of douches strutting around with Monte As and Lusitania because they look manly. I still have most of a box of Mag 46 that are 8 yrs old but that was my last foray into Cubans.

[Millhouse]

(10-15-2016, 11:59 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Now that they are legal, they just became 50% less enjoyable.

Isn't that how that works?

unless it is a really hot escort  


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