Prior formalities

A. General Formalities for imports

1)Establish a taxpayer card from the Taxation Department / Unique Identification Number (UIN);
2) Register your enterprise in the Ministry of Trade`s Importers database;
3) Establish an Import Declaration (D.I) at the SGS:
(required for all goods whose FOB value is greater than or equal to 1,000,000 FCFA as well as for new vehicles);

4)Obtain a Report on Valuation and Classification(RVC), for goods with an FOB value greater than or equal to 2,000,000 FCFA, from the SGS;
5) Obtain an insurance certificate;
6) Establish a Certificate of Circulation (case of possible benefit from a preferential tariff) or of the certificate of origin (case of non-preferential origin).

B. Specific formalities to certain goods

1) Obtain authorisations and technical visas for certain goods (pharmaceutical products, products dangerous for the environment and public safety, pesticides and plants, fumigation certificate for second-hand clothes, ionization certificate for salts, CITES certificate, etc.) ;
2)Obtaining the certificate of conformity with the Cameroonian standard (products with regulated normes under the PECAE: Pre-Boarding Compliance Verification Program in the export country);
3) Sticker licences in the country of export or impotr for products subject to the security sticker program (cigarettes, alcoholic beverages).