How to Import Rice (By Land Route) In Benin

Import Rice (By Land Route) In Benin By Online

How to apply to the Creation of a Company

  1. In the case of a new company, the importer is required to register it via the Single Window for Formalization of Enterprises (GUFE) of APIEX website Link 
  2. How to Import Rice (By Land Route) In Benin
    How to Import Rice (By Land Route) In Benin
  3. and obtain all the certificate/documentary of the registration of the company and importer card

Transit order establishment

  1. You (importer) should then must contact an approved broker 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 importation procedure i.e (bill of landing, commercial invoice for the goods and electronic cargo tracking slip) Link
  2. The broker will prepare an estimate based on the charges to be paid to the various agencies or structures that be involved in the process of importing for the shipment to be delivered to their destination (including the cost of agents for commissions) in accordance with the information received from the importer. They will give you a quotation slip.
  3. If you are an importer and are willing to accept the broker’s service and agree to the broker’s services, you will be asked to pay broker’s fees by check, cash or Bank transfer within a day when you have paid. you will receive a an order to transit at office of the broker against a bill for landing, commercial invoice, electronic.

The handling of products by the broker who is authorized to handle them

  1. The broker will then connect with GUP-SEGUB to see whether the items have arrived at the port. If they have arrived, the broker visits consignees’ company. The company will provide information about the bill of lading’s number as well as the date expected to remove the goods . The broker receives an invoice on delivery to the consignee. Find the contact information of consignees at this link. Link
  2. The broker is required to pay the invoice at the bank of consignee (cashier) or more typically by a consignee’s preferred bank choice . They will then obtain the Good to Deliver that is consigned to the consignee’s receipt, the invoice of the receipt to.
  3. The broker connects to the GUP-SEGUB One-Stop Shop to verify that the consignee has verified the issue of the voucher that is to be distributed.

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 forms for customs declaration, comprising 5 sheets in bundles and are sold in hundreds of sheets in addition to CCIB payment receipts. CCIB invoice for payment.
  2. The broker then connects to the ASYCUDA system and enters the declaration of each bill of landing of the goods and obtain 5 copies of the import declaration documents for each of the following agencies i.e .
  3. The broker will then go towards the customs Port Recipe Office, Inspector Liquidator unit, and hand in five copies of the import declaration file as well as other documentation to the Customs Inspector’s office for verification and to obtain the liquidated declaration copy of the import declaration and clear import declaration carrier copy.

Regulating the expense of a single slip

  1. The authorized broker visits or connects to a recognized handling company website if they are available, and supply all the information required (name of the client as well as the nature of the operation, and the name of the company that is handling the transport) to receive an invoice for Stevedoring (port handling fees). View a list of handling companies that are certified by clicking this click here
  2. The broker then will receive an email notification informs his client that all invoices were processed by various structures of Port Single Window. Port Single Window platform i.e. (stevedore, PAC, CNCB, CNERTP, CCIB, SEGUB, GUOCE and Customs) have been verified validated, validated and the BFU. The authorized broker can track the issue of each invoice on GUP. GUP platform.
  3. The broker will then take the BFU issued invoice printout towards either Bank of Africa or ECOBANK and makes payment against the BFU invoice. They will then receive the BFU Bank invoice.
  4. The authorized broker is connected to GUP. GUP platform to verify whether the bank has confirmed BFU fee payment transaction. BFU fee transaction. Then, download the BFU okay slip.

Preparation of goods for be brought into at the ports.

  1. The broker connects to the GUP-SEGUB’s website link and inputs into the in addition to the GUP generates an BACT number.
  2. The handling company stevedore’s service agents is connected to GUP platform to verify whether the BAS Box (receipt) is checked within the system prior to issuing the receipt to the broker for collection (one duplicate) i.e. the receipt that is issued for collection corresponds to the demand for the delivery of items.
  3. The broker authorized connects to the site of the Cotonou Port Autonomous Authority the PAC site URL in order to inform the public about the expected arrival date of the vehicle that will take the goods to be collected and provides the necessary information to identify the truck that was called (BFU number, the name of driver as well as co-drivers the truck, dates of pickup of the truck and the name of the transit company , and identity of the licensed broker).He will then receive email notification and can print the slip for the truck that was contacted.

Moving the goods onto the trailer.

  1. The broker goes to the port in cotonou using the truck. They submit the ‘called truck slip’, BFU OK slip’ to the port agent at the gatehouse for certification and then check the his truck’s information against SYGES platform, and then issues the document referred to as sealed truck to the driver of the truck.
  2. The driver then goes to parking lot 250 in the port to get documents from the port. Macaron against the sealed truck document in the Macaron issuing office.
  3. Within 5 days, the driver will receive the badge, a pair armbands and a macaron (with the date of release) to the macon, by the port officer at the office of exit parking.
  4. The driver takes through the port to any of the warehouses (COMAN) in the port of contonou and then submit the required documents (driver’s license, handler’s remover’s certification) in the hands of the representative that is registering the vehicle, sends the file to them and issue an identification card to the driver.
  5. The driver will then head to the docks for loading and parks the truck. The machine operator (handling agent) takes the containers (s) on the truck by using a forklift.
  6. The driver of the truck then goes towards Coman Park’s exit gate. Once there, the Coman Park exit gate turns off his vehicle and is given the authority to get out of the vehicle, the customs agent climbs onto a scaffolding to examine whether the truck is in good condition. The customs agent after that, the system informs that the truck has been removed from its place in the COMAN fleet. The information is then transmitted through the networks of partners (GUP SIGES-Port, GUP, etc.)

Spinning the container

  1. The collector or driver must submit his registration details to GEP-cashier office located at the port of cotonou. Once there, he will receive the GEP receipt. He then goes to the visa controller office to present the GEP receipt to the agent for it to be checked and receive the slip for slinging visa. The slinging visa has required to be provided to the team that slings the container, so that they can inspect the contents and the slinging process from the vessel by the team in the port.

Control and the exit of the goods from the port

  1. The broker will then send the import documentation file to in the offices of the customs quarter’s secretariat the deputy shift supervisor is then connected to GUP. GUP platform, and checks to see if the stevedore’s check has been made within the system, that the goods are loaded onto the truck, and the truck is out of the port in the presence of an agent at the port, and then issues the BFU to the chief of brigade. After the truck has arrived an assistant shift supervisor will take over the physical inspection of the cargo in conjunction with the port agent.
  2. The items will also be examined and the document of importation is checked by the weighting and control agents at the ports and will issue the weighting invoice, which the broker must pay on the invoice and get a receipt for weighting.
  3. Following being inspected, the container will be allowed to leave and go towards the warehouse/store of the importer. It is important to note that the container has to return the Port after being cleared of any goods.

Required Documents For Import Rice (By Land Route) 

  • bill of landing
  • commercial invoices for the goods
  • Electronic cargo tracking slip
  • Import declaration documents file .
  • Importer card
  • The intention to import
  • Value declaration
  • Receipt for the consignor
  • Professional card that is authorized by the broker
  • National identity card (importer/broker)
  • BFU issued a slip
  • Called sealed truck
  • Ticket identification number slip
  • Slips being tossed

Office Locations and Contacts

INVESTMENT AGENCY FOR EXPORT PROMOTION
Address: Boulevard Steinmetz, Cotonou 01
BP 363
Tel: +229 21 31 07 04
Fax: +229 21 31 07 51
MyCompany .BJ

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 Brokers Authorized for Benin: link

List of Authorized Handling firms: link

List of consignees who have been certified companies operating in contonou Benin: Link

BENIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES
Cotonou 01 Address Cotonou 01
BP 31Tel +229 2131 12 38 / +22921 31 20 81
Fax: +229 21 31 32 99
Email: ccib@intnet.bj

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

GUP-SEGUB
Address: Residential zone, Cotonou 08
BP 0658
Tel: +229 21 31 99 88 / +229 21 31 99 89
Website: link

PAC
Address: Avenue de la marina, Cotonou
Tel: +229 21 31 52 80 / +229 21 31 28 90
Site: link

AUTONOMOUS COTONOU PORT
Cotonou 01 Address Cotonou 01
BP 837
Tel: +229 21 31 17 24 / +229 21 31 30 81
Web site: Link

Eligibility

  • A licensed broker is hired by an importer to import rice via the landroute to Benin

Fees

  • The estimated cost of the process of importing is 12,982,974 CFA francs.

Note This cost is contingent upon how much weight is in the cargo being imported , as well as other factors.

Processing Time

  • The estimated processing time between {different steps the different steps (as a cumulative) is 3-12 days.

Instructions

To access ASYCUDA system

  • Sign the form from his office if you have access to ASYCUDA (the broker has to be authorized and the application is required to be downloaded on the computer). or
  • Make use of the computer and internet connection that is accessible in the room that is not marked (computer space) at the Customs Office.

Requirements Information

  • Details about the importer
  • Contact information for the importer
  • The details of the broker
  • List of products to be imported by the importer
  • Country of source
  • Point of entry
  • Number of the Nation Identity card
  • Drivers licence details

The Document is required

  • Imported Rice is required to declare and conform to the customs regulations and the mandatory standard established by the Ministry of commerce and industry in order to be permitted to enter Benin.

Information that can be useful

More details on the documents that are required and the various ways to import them.

Importer card for Business Creation

  • In order to carry out any import-export activity an economic operator needs to possess an importer’s certificate. The Importer Card is issued along with other certificates when establishing a business. The process of creating a business can be done through APIEX’s Single Window for Formalization of Enterprises (GUFE) of APIEX. APIEX.

Transmit order

  • Transit orders are the documents that authorizes the broker authorized to act for the benefit of the economic operator. The contract makes the latter liable to the broker authorized by the company.

The handling of products by the broker who is authorized to handle them

  • The customs broker authorized (CAD) is authorized by the economic regulator to act on behalf of its client.

Customs declaration

  • Exports and imports can be subjected to customs charges. Customs officers in Benin have created an information system known as ASYCUDA World that allows authorized brokers to make their declarations from their offices prior to proceeding with liquidation.

Regulating the Cost Slip as a Single Cost Slip

  • Following the approval from the Customs Declaration after the declaration is cleared, Port Single Window generates a Single Fee Schedule (BFU) which records all fees owed to the various structures involved in the process of import. The BFU is then paid in either of BOA’s two banks that are partners (Ecobank and BOA).

Prepared for Port Entry

  • Every truck that is entering the port that is autonomous in Cotonou is required to announce that it will be entering the port. The announcement is made via an internet portal created by the port, which lets you get “the voice for the pickup”.

The loading of the goods

  • In of the ports, the vehicle is driven into the yard of the Stevedore’s to load the container with freight.

The container is slung

  • Slinging is the process of attaching your container onto the truck using the aid of wires to stop it from falling off of the truck, and also to prevent traffic accidents.

Control and the exit of the products

  • They are the different documentation and physical checks performed by customs officials, in conjunction or not, with port agents, before the goods are

External Links

Benin Trade Portal website: Link

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