IMM Revision: International Priority Airmail and International Surface Air Lift Service — Country Suspensions

Effective May 7, 2012, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM^®) sections 292.452 and 293.452 to temporally suspend International Priority Air­mail™ (IPA^®) to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, and International Surface Air Lift^® (ISAL^®) service to Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria.

The five countries affected by this revision are currently included in the sanctioned Country Group E:1 listing in 15 C.F.R. Part 740, Supplement 1. As such, temporary mea­sures are being implemented due to the complexity of monitoring outbound shipments to these countries until such time as export sanctions are removed or exports to these countries can be suitably monitored. These changes do not affect any other class of mail to these countries. For example, First-Class Mail International^® service remains available to send letter-post items to these destinations.

Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)

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2 Conditions for Mailing

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290 Commercial Services

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292 International Priority Airmail (IPA) Service

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292.4 Mail Preparation

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292.45 Sortation

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292.452 Presorted Mail — Direct Country Bundle Label

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Exhibit 292.452 IPA Country Price Groups and Foreign Office of Exchange Codes

[Insert a new footnote 2 for Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria under the Country Labeling Name column, and redesignate current footnotes 2 through 5 as 3 through 6 to read as follows:]

IPA Country Price Groups and Foreign Office of Exchange Codes

 

Country Labeling Name	Foreign Office of Exchange Code	Price Group
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Cuba2	–	13
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Iran2	–	15
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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of (North), via Hong Kong2	–	14
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Sudan2	–	15
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Syria2	–	15
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* * * * *  2Service temporarily suspended. * * * * *

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293 International Surface Air Lift (ISAL) Service

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293.4 Mail Preparation

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293.45 Sortation

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293.45 Presorted Mail — Direct Country Bundle Label

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Exhibit 293.452 ISAL Country Price Groups and Foreign Office of Exchange Codes

[Redesignate footnotes 1 through 3 as 2 through 4. In addi­tion, insert footnote 1 for Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria to read as follows:]

 

Country Labeling Name	Foreign Office of Exchange Code	Price Group
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Cuba1	–	13
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Iran1	–	15
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Sudan1	–	15
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Syria1	–	15
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* * * * *  1Service temporarily suspended. * * * * *

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We will incorporate these revisions into the next monthly update of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer^® at http://pe.usps.com.

— Product Classification, Pricing, 4-19-12