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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
T: 01277 223400
http://www.intertek.com/import-export/
Conformity Assessment Programmes