A. General procedures of importation and payment

The importer must be approved by the Ministry of Trade.

The importer has to fill with his banker a form called "Declaration of import and payment ".

The payment of the goods and the related expenses is made according to the modalities resumed below:

a) Payment after import

Thepayment is made on presentation of :
- Original definitive invoices.
- Declarations of stake in consumption as well as the receipt of payment established by the services of the customs.
- The certificate of check established by the controlling organisation, if necessary.

b) Payment before import

The payment before import concerns the payment either, by documentary credit, or by documentary delivery. The payment is made on presentation at the bank approved speaker or her foreign correspondent of the usual documents.
The documents of transport are established in the order of the approved Bank speaker, to notify to the importer.

B. Validation of the Declarations of import and payment ( DIP).

All the declarations of import and payment are aimed by banks approved according to the General Regulation of the Exchange control.

The demand of declaration of import and payment must be accompanied with :

- A pro forma invoice to 6 copies;
- An insurance certificate;
- An authorization of the Ministry of Health for pharmaceutical products.

The validity of a DIP is of one year with the possibility of continuation only once for the same period.

The overtakings on the value FOB or the amount of the related expenses can be adjusted without having to validate an additional DIP on the condition of producing definitive invoices or certificate of check, if necessary.

The increase of the price due to a supplementary quantity with regard to the one who was initially foreseen on the DIP, asks for the validation of a new DIP to pay the supplement.

The validation of an additional DIP is required in case of increase of the price due to a supplementary quantity with regard to that foreseen on the DIP.

The DIP of a superior value in USD3000 for medicines, chemical, food products and secondhand clothes shops and USD 5000 for the other products, must be subjected to the control.

The partial expeditions for these declarations are the object of control.

The contract of check of the imports is at present insured by the General Company of Surveillance SGS in abbreviation.

The imports on behalf of model "A" are only authorized in the approved importers.

The import of the second-hand vehicles with personal custom(usage) is henceforth authorized.

The limitations relative to the import of the new and second-hand vehicles are got rid of.

The official structure of the prices of fuels is periodically published by the central Bank according to the ministerial prescription of the Ministry of Trade and the Industry.

The validation of the global DIP to cover the urgent imports is authorized.

The validity of a global DIP is fixed to 12 months.

The visa of a global DIP is subordinated to the checking(discharge) of that in the course of use. An importer can arrange only a single global DIP in force.

Payments on the global DIP are subordinated to the presentation of the following documents: Ø Original definitive invoices.,Original DMC containing N of the concerned DIP; receipts of payment of the entrance fees.

The import without payment of currencies(slogans) is authorized on base of a DIP.

The numbers attributed(awarded) to the BCB for the global DIP meet themselves in the beach of: LG / B1 / 400.000 - LG / B1 / 499.999