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DR CONGO Waiver FERI Certificate Services
Waiver Requirements For DR CONGO / FERI
A FERI (Fiche Électronique des Renseignements a l’Importation) certificate is required for all shipments going to Democratic Republic Congo.
One FERI certificate is required per Bill of Lading (BOL) and must be obtained in the country of loading.
Shipping Ports in DR Congo
- Matadi
- Kinshasa
- Boma
- Lubumbashi
- Banana
Pre Shipment Inspection for DR Congo
Pre-Shipment Inspection of imports for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is mandated by the DGDA (Direction Générale des Douanes et Accises) and OCC (Office Congolais de Contrôle), Ministry of Commerce.
Information and documents required for creating FERI Certificate
- Bill of Lading (Draft B/L is allowed)
- Commercial invoice / currency must be mentioned in USD or EURO
- Freight invoice in the same currency (not needed in case the freight charges are mentioned on the commercial invoice)
- Phone number and email address from shipper and consignee
- ETS & ETA
- Transshipment details like; vessel name, voyage no, ETA, ETS, transshipment port(s)
- H.S. code
- FXI or FSI number
Shipping Goods Exempted from DR Congo FERI Certificate
- Fresh eggs
- Live animals
- Imports with FOB value below USD2500
- Fruits, vegetables, meat and fish, fresh or refrigerated (neither frozen or deep-frozen)
- Weapons, ammunition imported by the Administration
- Re-imports without modification
- Current newspapers and periodicals
- Commercial samples
- Post parcels without commercial value
- Personal effects and moves, including motorized vehicles imported by residents returning to their country
- Personal gifts
- Donations by foreign governments or international organizations to foundations, charities and humanitarian organizations declared of Public Utility
- Donations by foreign governments or international organizations or private persons in case of disaster
- Goods purchased with donations and external resources including loans
- Gifts and supplies import by diplomatic entities, by United Nations organizations or other NGOs having customs taxes exemptions, for their own use
- Goods purchased with donations and external resources including loans
Prohibited Goods for Import to Cameroon
‘Mc Ray’ scotch wiskey
‘Ibéro’ oil and ‘Turkey Brand’ vegetable oil
Skin treatment creams:
- ‘Crusader’ skin toning cream
- ‘Mipipo’ skin treatment cream
- ‘Mipipo’ hydroquinone lotion
- ‘IKB’ medicated cream
- ‘Symbi’ cream
- ‘Elegance’ skin toning cream
- ‘Renue’ super bleaching cream
- ‘Amba’ cream
- ‘Desire’ complexion cream
- ‘Nice’ super cream
- ‘Tura’ medicated cream
- Soaps:
- ‘HG 12’ germicidal soap
- ‘Jabiru’ antiseptic germicidal soap
- ‘Tura Savon’ germicidal soap
- ‘Mipipo’ germicidal soap
- ‘Roberts’ medicated soaps
- ‘Sukissa Bango’ antiseptic soap
- ‘Bexo’ antiseptic soap
- ‘Skin Guard antiseptic soap
- ‘Bicu’ soap
- Pesticides for agricultural use containing at least one of the following products:
- Captafol, dinoseb acetate (aretit), dinoseb, binapacryl (morocide), cyhexatin, dieldrin, aldrin, heptachlor, 2-4-5 TCP Trade names of these pesticides are listed thereafter:
- Made from captafol: difolatan, folcid, merpafol, crisfolatan, folstaf, haipen, mycodifol, ortho difolatan 80, captalatan 80
- Weed killers made from aretit: HOE 002904, evosit, phenotan
- Made from dinoseb: subitex, vertac, Dinitro Weed Killer, basanite, chemox general, chemox, chemsect, dynamite, elgetol, hel-fire, kiloseb, nitropone, sinox general, unicrop, caldon, dinitro, DN289, gebutox, premerge, subitex, vertac
- Made from binapacryl: acricid, ambox, dapacryl, dinoseb, endosan, morocide, HOE 2784, NIA 9044
- Made from Dieldrin: alvit, dieldrite, octalox, panoram D-31
- Made from Aldrine: alvit, dieldrex, dieldrite, octalox, panoram D-31, aldrex 30, aldrite, aldrosol, drinox, octalene, seedrin liquid
- Made from heptachlore: drinox, H-24, heptamul
- Toxic waste and other industrial waste.
- “Cock brand” insecticide: Double Cock brand, Cock brand superior containing DDT, as per Ministerial Decision No 008/MINDIC/CAB dd 2/3/2000
- Non iodized salt
- Counterfeit goods
- Wheat flour from Nigeria (importation suspended)
- Bovine mean of European origin (importation suspended)
- The products or equipment, whenever using substances which impoverish the ozone layer
- Pharmaceutical product INTETRIX P GRANULES (importation suspended)
- Pharmaceutical products including phenolphthalein (Mucinum, Purganol)
- Imports made by the Cameroon Army and security services
- Imports authorised under Free Zone Regime
- Crude oil and equipment used for oil drilling and working Donations from foreign governments or international organisations to foundations, welfare and philanthropic organisations recognized of public interest.
Restrictive Goods Shipping to Cameroon
- Sea or bred fish, crustaceans and molluscs
- Alimentary perpetration for other animals (see code 2309.90.00 of Cameroon Customs Tariff Book)
- Edible meat
- Medicated soaps
- Medicines (see codes 30.03.10.00 to 30.04.90.00 of Cameroon Customs Tariff Book)
- Prepared explosives, other than propellant powders; pyrotechnic articles, beacon rocks
- Transmitter-receivers and other receivers
- Precious substances such as platinum, gold, sapphire etc
- Weapons and war ammunition
- Radioactive substances (thorium, detorium, uranium etc) and equipment which contains radioactive elements
- Medicine for veterinary purposes (licenced)
- Pharmaceutical products (licenced)
- Order No. 0064 of 12/05/95 and the list of controlled substances under the Montreal Protocol
- Second-hand vehicles not subjected to PSI. They are under the CIVIO Program
- Salt maximum iodine (100ppm or 100 mg/kg)
- Wheat flour: must confirm to norms specificed in Decree 27/MINDIC/DPPC dated 1st March 1994
Charges for Cameroon BESC Certificate
For creating a BESC certificate for Cameroon different rates are applicable. This depends on the Port of Loading and type of shipment, like LCL, FCL, Breakbulk or RORO.
