Egypt'S Mandatory Inspection Reminder For Imported Shoes And Other Commodities

According to the ministerial decree No. 626 and No. 660 of 2011 of the Ministry of trade and industry of Egypt, since June 15th, importers of textiles, leather and footwear must be provided with the international inspection certificate approved by the exporter and approved by the Egyptian General Administration of import and export (hereinafter referred to as GOEIC).

The main contents are as follows:

Types of commodities

Textiles (ready-made garments,

Two, two ways of authentication

(1) one-off inspection

Importers import all the above goods before shipment. They are required to be inspected at the origin by the third party international inspection body, and the inspection certificate is obtained.

This approach applies to less frequent exports to Egypt.

(two) producer filing system

All importers (local agents, customer representatives and retailers) are required to register at GOEIC and meet the following requirements:

1. a written application containing the names of producers and importing products;

2. manufacturer's legal entity certification;

3. manufacturer's production and operation permit;

4. manufacturers have quality control system certification;

5. the product must comply with the Egyptian quality inspection standard.

According to the requirements of the fourth and fifth points, the manufacturer shall issue the audit certificate issued by the third party international inspection institution certified by GOEIC.

The record was updated in June.

This method applies to Egypt in a certain period of time.

Three. Qualification of testing institutions

The inspection report shall be issued by the third party international inspection organization conforming to the ISO17020 standard.

The following is the list of agencies recommended by GOEIC.

ILAC International Laboratory ACCReditation Cooperation

IAAC Inter AMErican Accreditation cooperation

APLAC Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation cooperation

EA European Cooperation of Accreditation

Arab Accreditation Agency

AFR AC African Accreditation Cooperation

Other testing organizations can also apply for qualification to GOEIC, and provide inspection reports for exporters after obtaining GOEIC approval.

Special reminder: when exporters apply for inspection to the third party international inspection institutions, they should confirm that the agency has been registered in the GOEIC and has the qualification to issue inspection certificates.

The certificate issued by any international inspection institution which has not been registered in the Egyptian GOEIC will be invalid.

Four, implementation time

The above provisions are postponed until June 15th.

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