How to Export Pineapple (By Air) In Benin

Export Pineapple (By Air) In Benin By Online

How to Apply for the transit order

1. Then, you (exporter) begin by contacting a broker who is approved to finish the formalities for customs. You can physically present yourself at the agent’s office or send him remotely (mail, telephone) the information/documents necessary for the exportation procedure i.e (commercial invoice for the goods and packing list) Link
2. The broker will then create an offer based on charges to be paid to all agencies or structures that be involved in the process of exporting for the items at their destination, which includes the Commission Agent) Based on the information that you provide to the exporter and send you with a quotation slip. You will then create the air bill.
3. If you choose to accept the services of a broker You will have to pay the broker’s fees in cash, or with a cheque or Bank transfer within a single day when you have made your payment. you will receive an order to transit at the broker’s offices in exchange for an IFU registration certificate issued by the company or an importer’s card.

The establishment of the Customs declaration Customs declaration

1. The broker who is authorized goes the broker to Benin Chamber of Commerce and Industry offices, where they buy the customs declaration forms comprising five sheets of bundles that are sold in sheets of 100 sheets, which are compared to CCIB payment receipts. CCIB payments receipt.
2. The broker then connects ASYCUDA. The broker then connects to ASYCUDA system and makes in the details of the product And then, they must obtain 5 copies of the declarations for import in each one of the agencies listed below i.e. and the bulletin.
3. The broker will then go towards The Airport Customs Recipe office, Inspector Liquidator unit and submit the export declaration file, commercial invoice, bulletin, and provisional air waybill to officer who checks the declaration on the ASYCUDA system.
4. Then, he applies the liquidation code and his signature on the declaration signed by the broker authorized to do so and then signs the certificate of origin and sends the complete file to the broker.
5. The broker will then go to the cash counter of customs and gives the cashier. She then confirms that the declaration form is liquidation-related which is stamped, signed and stamped by the inspector for the liquidator. The inspector also checks that the amount recorded into the declared liquidation form is in line with the amount indicated on the form. He also advises that the agent to settle the necessary customs duties , and then returns the complete dossier to the broker along with the bulletin sealed.
6. The broker then goes to the customs data entry clerk’s office to deliver the sealed document to the operator of data entry who prints the receipt-customs obligations in two copies and gives an original copy of the document to the broker to use as an invoice and the other copy is handed over an inspector liquidator, to serve as the “good in order to begin”.
7. The broker authorized to do so then delivers the receipt that is printed- customs charges to the counter of the cashier and then affixes an official stamp of the cashier (validation of the payment).
8. The broker that is approved will take the sealed receipt as well as an airwaybill and sends it to the customs liquidator. He puts the words “good to embark” in the waybill for air travel, and gives it back to the broker.

You can obtain a phytosanitary certification and an expertise bulletin

1. The broker takes the items to be weighed by an agent located at the Aviation Handing Services office or the freight service department to get the weighting sheet. After that, the goods will be placed into the custody of AHS.
2. The broker authorized by the law invites agents of the following companies listed below to conduct an inspection in conjunction and get the acceptance form’, phytosanitary certificate’ and product expert bulletin’ that authority;
3. Plant Protection and Phytosanitary Control Department To check the sanitary aspects of the products.
4. Services for The Promotion of Quality and Packaging of Agricultural Products: for the management of their commercial qualities of pineapples.
5. The Benin Food Safety Agency (ABSSA) will carry out another review of the control procedures performed through the earlier two agencies.

Get the origin certificate

1. The broker will then go towards the ministry of Industry and Commerce office Trade and Regulatory service department and provides the following documents: commercial invoice for the goods, foreign currency commitment to the agent. He then buys the printed certificate of origin, complete it in a precise manner and then present this form to the official in charge for it to be verified.

Transfer of the items to the plane

1. The broker will then return for the Airport Customs Recipe, Deputy Chief Brigade office to submit the following documents – commercial invoice, validated certificate of origin, goods to embark the brigade’s chief The head of the brigade then reviews the file and then issues the Good to Begin document, which allows the for the consignment’s boarding on the aircraft.
2. The broker authorized by the company brings the air waybill and all the documents and certificates required for the goods to be delivered to the Aviation Handing Service , the Freight Service Office to be filed. The broker then makes an AHS acceptor sign the register which he records all the documents filed.

Required Documents For Export Pineapple (By Air) 

• Good to begin the journey aiming at the brigade’s head
• Validated phytosanitary certificate
• Report on the product’s expertise that has been validated
• National identity card exporter
• Acceptance form
• Original certificate of origin signed by the signer
• Commercial invoice for the items
• List of packing materials
• IFU registration certificate
• National identity card of exporter
• Export declaration file {accounting/declaration/customs/CCIB/carrier.
• Boarding Bulletin
• Provisional air waybill
• Transit order

Office Locations and Contacts

THE WORLD SOCIETY FOR CONSIGNMENT and TRANSIT
Address: Boulevard Saint Michel, Cotonou 04
BP 1186
Tel: +229 21 32 13 54
Fax: +229 21 32 13 48

List of authorized Brokers Benin link Benin hyperlink

AHS SERVICES FOR AVIATION (AHS)
Contact: Airport road, Cotonu 08
BP 1097
Tel: +229 21 30 91 82 / +229 21 30 91 83

BENIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES
Cotonou 01 Address Cotonou 01
BP 31
Tel: +229 21 31 12 38 / +229 21 31 20 81
Fax: +229 21 31 32 99
Email: ccib@intnet.bj

ASYCUDA
Cotonou 01 Address Cotonou 01
BP 400
Tel: +229 21 31 22 36
Email: douanes_beninoises@yahoo.fr

Airport Customs Recipe
Address: Route de l’Aeroport, Cotonou 01
BP 400
Tel: +229 21 30 16 64 / +229 21 30 01 37

BENIN Food Safety Agency
Address Carrefour 3 Banks, Cotonou
Tel: +229 66 36 34 31

MINISTRY OF INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE
Address: Route de l’Aeoroport, Cotonou
BP 363
Tel: +229 21 30 76 45 / +229 21 30 76 47

Eligibility

• A licensed broker is hired by an exporter looking for pineapple to be exported from Benin via air.

Processing Time

• The estimated processing time between {different steps various steps (cumulatively) is 2-7 days.

Instructions

To access ASYCUDA system

• You can sign the declaration at his office, if he has access to ASYCUDA (the broker needs to have been authorized, and the software has to be set up on the computer). or
• Make use of the computer and internet connection accessible in the room that is not marked (computer space) in the office of customs.

The Information You Need

• Exporters name
• Exporters’ addresses
• Exporters TIN/PIN
• Agent’s identify themselves by their name
• Agents’ addresses
• Agents for TIN processing/ clearing office
• Registration number
• Date of the export that is to be made
• Country of destination for goods
• Tax invoice value
• Data on banking and financial institutions
• Nationality, date and identity of the vehicle at the point of entry.
• Office of departure
• The location of the products
• Distribution of packages and packaging
• Calculation of the duties.

Documentation is needed

• The pineapple that is exported must be declared and complies with the regulations of customs and the required standard set by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and other regulatory authorities in order in order to allow exit from Benin.

Information that can be useful

More details on the documents required and the various processing steps

The physical certificate

• The Directorate General of Foreign Trade and the port’s phytosanitary control station are required to conduct certain inspections of the products (in particular , quality inspection) to get the phytosanitary certificate as well as an origin certificate. These documents are provided to the owner to export his products.

Certificate of Origin

External Links

• Benin Trade Portal: Link

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