São Paulo – As of next Thursday (Sept. 1), companies that export to Egypt will need to fill out a form, certify it, and submit it to the General Organization for Export and Import Control (Goeic), an arm of the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry. The ministry’s decree 43/2016 provides that the Goeic will now handle all registration services for brands and goods from exporting companies. The move is mostly targeted at consumer goods.
Information on the form will include a registration request from the manufacturer’s legal representative or a proxy; certification of the manufacturer’s legal entity status and license; a list of the products made and their brands; a list of the products sold under the manufacturer’s own brand and/or under any third-party licensees; and certification that manufacturing is done under a quality control system.
Documents relating to the products’ brands are also required, including a certificate of registration of the commercial brand and of the products made under it; and a list, provided by the brand’s owner, of the distribution points authorized to supply its products, among other requirements.
In Brazil, the sole organization accredited to certify the form that the Goeic requires is the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. Its CEO Michel Alaby said exporters must register all of the items they export or will export in one form, to avoid having to repeat the process in the future. “This way they can register all their products at once,” he said.
According to Alaby, exporters will have to provide the filled-out form to the Arab chamber, so it can issue a certificate of origin and translate it into Arabic. Next, the Chamber will submit the papers to its accredited proxy in Egypt, and that proxy will hand in the papers to Goeic. If the papers are in order, the company will be accredited to export.
The new requirements apply to suppliers of the following products: milk and its products; preserved and dried fruit; oils and fats; sugar confectioneries; chocolates and food products containing cocoa; pasta and prepared foods from cereals, and bread products and pastries; fruit juices; natural, mineral, and aerated water; beauty and makeup products, preparations for oral or dental hygiene, personal deodorants and antiperspirants, and perfumed preparations; soap and washing preparations used as soap; cutlery and kitchen utensils; baths, shower-baths, sinks, wash basins, bidets, lavatory pans, seats and covers; toilet paper and similar paper, baby napkins and sanitary napkins; refractory bricks, blocks, tiles for household use; glass tableware; iron and steel bars and rods; electrical household appliances (stoves, fryers, air conditioners, fans, washing machines, blenders and heaters); home and office furniture; bicycles, motorcycles and those with auxiliary motors; watches; lighting equipment for household use; toys; and textiles, clothing, carpets, blankets, furnishing fabrics; floor coverings; and footwear.
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For additional information, write or call the Arab Chamber Certification Department: registro@ccab.org.br / +55 11 3147-4062
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum