Government & Trade Services

February 2017

Svetlana Collier

Sales Manager

Overcoming Global Customs Challenges –Conformity Assessment

and Pre-Shipment Inspections

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Intertek - Bringing Quality and Safety to Life

• Intertek is a leading Total Quality Assurance provider to

industries worldwide.

• Network of more than 1,000 laboratories and offices and

over 40,000 people in more than 100 countries.

• Delivers innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing,

Inspection and Certification solutions for our customers’

operations and supply chains.

110More than

countries

1,000More than

Offices and

laboratories

41,000people

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Our Heritage

Caleb Brett founds a marine surveying

business

1885

Thomas Edisonestablishes what

is later renamed as the Electrical

Testing Laboratories (ETL)

1896

Virginius Daniel Moody establishes Moody Engineering

for construction and electrical

engineering projects

1911

Intertek and Moody International join

forces

2011

Intertek Today: Valued Quality.

Delivered.

Today

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Intertek Clients - Examples

Governments: Corporations:

The Government of Bangladesh

The Government of Egypt

The Government of Kenya

The Government of Kuwait

The Government of Mexico

The Government of Mozambique

The Government of Nigeria

The Government of Philippines

The Government of Saudia Arabia

The Government of Sierra Leone

The Government of Uganda0and more!

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Conformity Assessment Programmes (CAPs)

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CAP key objectives:

• Ensures that regulated products comply

with standards sanctioned or approved

by the national standards body

• Raise the level of compliance and

prevent unacceptable goods from

entering the country

• Protect health, safety, public morals,

national security and the environment

• Prevent deceptive practices

What is a CAP?

• Demonstrates that products meet the

requirements of national, regional and

international standards

• Prevents low quality or below standard

goods entering the market

• Ensure consumer/end user health and

safety

Conformity Assessment Programmes

Each programme is tailored according to the destination market

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Conformity Assessment Programmes

Why would a government introduce a CAP?

• A system of self-certification by manufacturer or exporter is not successful

• National market flooded with inferior quality/counterfeit products

• Inspection and testing capabilities in-country not adequate to cope with volume of

imported products

• Verify product compliance prior to shipment

• Helps solve safety, environmental & performance compliance

• Helps trade facilitation by implementing verification of product compliance prior to

shipment

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Benefits of Implementing a CAP

• Guidelines provided on an International,

Regional or National level for various

products

• Enhance global competitiveness, uniformity

and a good quality of products

• Promote and facilitate a common process

for manufacturing

• Reference to standards can guarantee

products of good quality while also

ensuring their integrity

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Intertek’s Conformity Assessment Programmes

Conformity Assessment Programmes

Conformity Assessment Programmes

CameroonCameroon

Russia & EAEU*Russia & EAEU*

UgandaUganda

QatarQatar

NigeriaNigeria

KuwaitKuwait

AlgeriaAlgeria

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Kenya** Kenya**

BotswanaBotswana

EgyptEgypt

EthiopiaEthiopia

LibyaLibya

GabonGabon

Ghana & Niger***Ghana & Niger***

Note:

*Russia & EAEU: current members are

Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,

Russian Federation;

**Kenya: certification according to country of

responsibility.

***Ghana & Niger: Ghana is under

implementation. Niger is temporarily suspended.

Contact Intertek office for update on actual

starting date;

for Ghana it is possible to request a voluntary

certificate of inspection;

BangladeshBangladesh

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• Regulated product lists are set by the government of country of destination

• Include industrial equipment and consumer products

• For most countries exclude: food, pharmaceutical, military products, aviation,

used products (other than vehicles), waste and scrap

• No minimum threshold value

Regulated products

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Compliance Verification

The range of techniques used in combination to assess

conformity prior to shipment:

• Laboratory Testing

• Physical Inspection of shipments

• Product Registration (Review of Quality

documents such as test reports, product

specification sheets, evidence of a QMS

etc.)

• Factory audits and Product Compliance

Licensing

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Laboratory testing

• Products must be tested to national or international standards

• Testing conducted in the laboratory accredited to ISO 17025 or by a national

accreditation body (for the Customs Union)

• Test reports reviewed during certification process

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Product Registration and Licensing

• Registration - following full type testing and successful

assessment of the Manufacturer’s Quality System.

• License of products is completed following full type testing and

successful factory audit.

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Inspection

• The inspector will ask for a selection of boxes to be opened

• Check that the goods are as listed on the invoice/packing

list

• Goods are in good condition and are new

• Markings and labelling are as required by the destination

government

*Products shipped to the Customs Union don’t require an inspection, although

third party inspection can be arranged

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Certificate of Conformity

• Usually has to be issued for each shipment after successful

completion of the inspection

• For the Customs Union (EAEU) – certificate valid for up to

5 years can be issued following a factory audit

• Certificate number or a copy will be registered in electronic

databases

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Routes to Certification

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J I don’t get the certificate?

• Goods blocked at destination custom

• Goods may be subject to destination inspection and testing

• Administrative fines (typically 15% of goods value)

• Goods returned to country of export

• Goods destroyed

What if 0.

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PSI Programmes

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PSI Programmes

Fiscal (PSI) ProgrammesFiscal (PSI)

Programmes

MozambiqueMozambique

PhilippinesPhilippines

UzbekistanUzbekistan

SomaliaSomalia

MexicoMexico

LibyaLibya

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Purpose

PSI programmes are set up in order to prevent:

• The loss of valuable duty and tax revenue

• The loss of foreign exchange reserves (in countries where exchange controls

exist)

• The potential importation of substandard or prohibited goods

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Benefits

• To maximises duty collections (preventing Customs at destination to assign

lower rates)

• To maximise revenue collection (WTO Agreement on Customs Valuation)

• Trade facilitation (preventing delays at Customs)

• To deter capital flight (by preventing deliberately inflated invoicing)

• To reduce the incidence of illegal imports (by inspecting the shipment prior to

dispatch)

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DO’s and DON’Ts when exporting

DON’T

• Assume that European / International certificates will be

sufficient

• Assume that another party will deal with certification

• Leave certification to the last minute

DO

• Check your contractual obligations

• Check the requirements of destination country

• Check certification requirements applicable to your product

• Obtain quotation for certification prior to signing a contract

• Be prepared to provide large volumes of documents

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Contact Details:

Intertek International

Government & Trade Services

Mrs. Svetlana Collier

Sales Manager

svetlana.collier@intertek.com

T: 01277 223400

http://www.intertek.com/import-export/

Conformity Assessment Programmes