Worthless Facts

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Afghanistan

Articles liable to compete with national industry. Articles of silk. Chessboards. Children toys except sports goods. Literature, publications, other articles prejudicial to public order or offensive to religion or morality. Tapestries and lace.

Albania

Extravagant clothes and other articles contrary to Albanians’ taste. Items sent by political emigres. Literature, publications, and other articles prejudicial to the State public order. Used articles.

Algeria

Funeral urns. Household articles made of tin. Saccharine in tablets or packets. Used clothing, accessories, blankets, linen, textile furnishings, footwear and headwear. Watches and clocks.

Australia

Goods produced wholly or partly in prisons or by convict labor. Seditious literature. Silencers for firearms. Used bedding.

Brazil

Primary educational books not written in Portuguese.

Cambodia

Coins; banknotes; currency notes (paper money); securities payable to bearer; traveler’s checks; manufactured and unmanufactured platinum, gold, silver; precious stones; jewels; expensive jewelry; and other valuable articles.

Canada

Butane gas lighters and refill cartridges. Commercial tags of metal. Oleomargarine and other butter substitutes, including altered or renovated butter. Parcels bearing caution labels indicating the contents are flammable. Plumage and skins of wild birds. Prison-made goods being sold or intended for sale by a person or firm. Reprints of Canadian or British works copyrighted [...]

China

Manuscripts, printed matter, photographic negatives, gramophone records, films, magnetic tapes, video tapes, etc., which could do political, economical, cultural, or moral harm to the People’s Republic of China. Meat and meat products. Radio receivers, transmitters or receivers of all kinds, walkie-talkies and parts thereof; valves, antennae, etc. Used clothing and bedding. Wrist-watches, cameras, television sets, [...]

Cuba

Musical letters or cards that play a sound recording when opened.

Cyprus

Daggers. Explosives and flammable substances. Leeches and silkworms. Postcards of private manufacture having illustrated designs not previously approved by the Cyprus Post Office. Seditious publications.

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