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format of CRF & NNRF

Pankaj Choudhary (Accounts Manager) (60 Points)

27 January 2010

PLEASE PROVIDE ME COPY OF CRF & NNRF BOTH DOCUMENTS BELONGS TO IPORT MATERIAL FROM BANGLADESH

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RAMESH KUMAR VERMA ( CS PURSUING ) (43848 Points)
Replied 28 January 2010

dear sir, The customs clearance of commercial goods shall be done by a clearing agent trained and certified by the Ethiopian Customs Authority (ECuA) and licensed by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. 2.The clearing agent should always produce A declaration of five copies for the imported item/items; Bona-fide/Genuine Invoice Insurance certificate; Way bill-i.e. airway bill, bill of lading and the like; Certificate of Origin; Bank Permit to Import the goods; Trade, Industry or Investment license/certificate in relation to the goods imported; Letter of permit from the concerned authority for restricted goods; Clean Report of Findings(CRF) or Non-Negotiable Report of Findings(NNRF) from the Pre-shipment inspection company if the value of the goods is over and above FOB USD2000 3.The Clearing agent should present these documents to the Face-Vet Officer. The Face-Vet officer shall give back one copy of the declaration as evidence to the declarant if documents are fulfilled. If documents are not fulfilled the declarant shall be requested to fulfil documents; 4.The face-vet officer shall place ingate number for complete declarations and pass it over to the registry officer; 5.The registry officer shall register the details in the declaration , produce two copies of ASCUDA declaration one for the declarant to be sent through the pigeon hole the other one to be attached to the presented documents and to be passed over to the examination section; 6.The examination section shall conduct examination on the shipment and writes its findings on the green declaration to serve as an input to classify the goods and to determine the value; 7.The Validation and documentary scrutiny/Assessment section shall check the descriptttion of the goods on the invoice, the CRF/NNRF and the examination result, the value and determines the classification and values of the goods; then assesses the declaration if there are no doubts and produce assessment notice or query sheet if there are doubts to the declarant through the pigeon hole; 8.Those declarants who have received assessment notice should proceed to the importer to collect CPO's( Certified cheques) for the amount in the assessment notice, Those who have received query should sow up to customs to produce genuine evidences and resolve the differences; 9.When CPO's are produced to the Cashier/collector a computer receipt is produced for the clearance of the goods. II NON- DUTIABLE TEMPORARY IMPORTS 1. Those imports related to construction and consultancy contracts can be imported temporarily without immediate payment of duties and taxes but on bank or insurance guarantee; and could be re-exported. But, the contractor or the consultant should produce the legally binding contractual agreement and the documents in 1.2. above to customs through his clearing agent. 2. Upon the expiration of the contract, the contracting parties should inform customs that the period has expired and the goods should be re-exported. Customs shall facilitate the re-exportation and then release the guarantee. 3. If however, there comes a request to retain the goods locally duties and taxes shall be paid for the goods imported on guarantee basis. III. NON-DUTIABLE INVESTMENT GOODS 1. The Ethiopian Investment Authority has the duties and powers by Investment Proclamation, Regulation and by Regulation No. 6/1997 to allow Foreign and National Investors, Public Enterprises, Government Ministries and Bodies, Non-Governmental Donor Organisations to import non-dutiable capital goods ; 2. The importers in III.1. above should present the list of non-dutiable capital goods to be imported for their project and other mandatory documents to the Ethiopian Investment Authority (EIA). 3. The EIA shall officially write to ECuA the list of non-dutiable capital goods to be imported and the legal permission for release of the goods; 4. The respective section at the ECuA HQ shall transmit the same to the concerned customs station for release of the goods following the procedures accordingly, i.e. after the presentation of all the necessary documentation indicated in I.2. above and other certificates from Ministry of Justice, from Embassies etc.. as the case may be. 5.The station shall release the goods and report back to the HQ the duty and tax forgone. 6. Investors in Mining and Energy shall get their certificates/ permits from the Ministry or the Regional Mining and Energy Bureaus and other procedures shall be the same.

ramesh kumar verma

ramesh.arti @ yahoo.co.in

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