Basic Information Guide

General Organization for Export and Import Control
• Address: The Export and Import Control Authority has more than 20 branches/offices at the level of the Republic. The headquarters is located in the electronic building in the Cairo Air Port in front of the shipping village, and the extension of the headquarters of Sheikh Maarouf Street is located at the intersection of Ramses Street - Central Cairo
• Phone: 19591
• E-mail: customercare@goeic.gov.eg
• Website: www.goeic.gov.eg


Egyptian Customs Authority:
• Address: Ministry of Finance Towers, Tower 3, Emtedad Ramses Street, Cairo
• Phone: +202-234-22249
• E-mail: info@customs.gov.eg
• Website: www.customs.gov.eg

Information on importing goods to Egypt

The Egyptian government seeks to implement policies to rationalize imports, reduce their value, encourage national industry, and work on replacing the local product with it. These policies led to a decrease in the value of Egyptian imports by only 1% during the first 8 months of 2019.
Egypt’s imports from the outside world recorded about 40 billion and 551 million dollars in the first 8 months of this year, compared to 40 billion and 178 million dollars during the same period last year, with a decline of 1%, which is a very limited rate of decline, compared to the decline in imports of other countries. In light of the spread of protectionist policies around the world.


General Organization for Export and Import Control:
It is a service organization that works to protect the consumer and preserve Egypt's reputation by examining commodity exports and imports, as well as preparing statistics on exports and imports, and the General Organization for Export and Import Control. world to achieve progress and elevation for the country and the Egyptian citizen.
Presidential Decree No. 1770 of 1970 establishing the General Organization for Export and Import Control (Download text of the resolution)

angle-left How to obtain an import permit in Egypt

How to obtain an import permit in Egypt

In the event of starting the import activity, the issuance of the registration card in the importers register must be started, which is considered as an entry permit for the imported products after they are examined in the competent department, through which transactions are carried out at the customs ports, and the facility has the right to choose between 21 commodity groups, which are predetermined through the activity in The entry sheet in the commercial registry. The administration checks the documents of the facility and their compliance with the regulations and laws regulating this, and in the event of approval of the registration, a registration card is issued for a period of five years, subject to renewal.
Download the commercial registration application form
https://www.goeic.gov.eg/ar/pages/default/view/id/185/m/6-114
The authority:
• Quality control over exports and imports:
The authority is one of the state agencies as a service and executive body specialized in quality control over exports and imports of food and industrial commodities, issuing certificates of origin, commercial registrations, sorting and arbitration for agricultural crops.
• importers record
• Register of commercial agents
• Register import cards for production requirements for factories
• Register integration cards with Sudan
• The Commission carries out sorting activities for agricultural crops in order to determine the rank of these crops.

The Authority undertakes the aforementioned activities within the framework of the following legislation:
• Law 118 of 1975 regarding import and export and the list of rules implementing its provisions issued by Ministerial Resolution No. 770 of 2005.
• Law 121 of 1982 regarding importers' register and its executive regulations issued by Ministerial Resolution No. 362 of 2005.
• Law No. 120 of 1982 regarding registration in the Register of Commercial Agents and Brokers and its Executive Regulations issued by Ministerial Resolution No. 342 of 1982
• Presidential Decree No. 106 of 2000
• Law No. 7 of 2017 amending some provisions of Law 121 of 1982 regarding the importers registry
• Decision of the Minister of Commerce and Industry No. 846 of 2017 - the executive regulations of Law No. 121 of 1982 regarding the importers registry.

• Steps to be taken:
• Registration in the importers register:
• About the service:
This service allows commercial customers to submit a request to inquire about a registration in the importers registry at the authority through the authority’s electronic portal on the internet in order to save time and facilitate the cycle of procedures for commercial customers. The time it takes to perform the service.

• Place of service
The main center in Cairo - branches (6th of October - Alexandria - Port Said - Suez - Damietta)
• Conditions for obtaining the service
• The customer must have an account for electronic services on the portal and activated.
• The procedure must be completed at the authority's headquarters within 15 days from the date of submitting the application through the electronic portal.
• Required Documents
First: In the event of a query by the person concerned:
• Submitting the application signed by the person concerned or his authorized legal representative.
Second: In the case of an inquiry through an official body:
• An official letter from the requesting party.
• Procedures for performing the service:
• Submitting a request from the businessman or his agent.
• Collection of the prescribed fees.
• Computer query.
• Write the response and send it by mail, keeping a copy of it.
https://www.goeic.gov.eg/en/electronicServices/default/view/id/9


• Registration in the Commercial Agents Register:
• About the service:
This service allows commercial customers to submit a request to obtain a registration card in the register of commercial agents and intermediaries, or to re-register with the authority through the authority’s electronic portal on the Internet, in order to save time and facilitate the cycle of procedures for commercial customers, as the service aims to provide a mechanism for the process of requesting access to Registration card in the register of commercial agents and brokers or re-registration, which will contribute to reducing the time spent in implementing the service.
• Place of service
The main center of the authority (the authority's branch in Alexandria - Port Said branch - the Sharkia branch). Only documents are received and sent through the clipboard, and the card is issued from the main center.
• Conditions for obtaining the service
• The customer must have an account for electronic services on the portal and activated.
• The procedure must be completed at the authority's headquarters within 15 days from the date of submitting the application through the electronic portal.
• Required Documents
Single Merchant Registration Documents
• Completion of the prescribed registration application signed by the person concerned in front of the competent employee, or the authenticity of the signature being certified by an approved bank.
• An official certified copy of the commercial agency or mediation contract that includes the nature of the work of the commercial agent or broker / the geographical or commodity scope / the responsibility of the contract parties / the goods in which he deals / the prescribed commission rate and the terms of its payment, the currency in which it is paid, the pledge of the principal and the obligation to notify the Egyptian consulate abroad of any change occurring in contracts.
• If the power of attorney is issued by a foreign company or entity, the agency contract must be authenticated by the competent chamber of commerce or the official body that takes its place in foreign countries and certified by the competent Egyptian consulate with its translation according to the established rules regarding translation. The power of attorney cannot be issued by a foreign company It has an agent from a public sector company, unless this power of attorney has expired.
• Agency contracts issued locally (persons - public business sector companies) are notarized by the real estate registry. As for government companies (public sector), it is sufficient to stamp the state emblem.
• An official extract from the valid entry sheet in the commercial registry, proving that the business of the commercial agency is included in the original activity of the agent.
• Certificate of experience in the field of commercial agencies from the competent Chamber of Commerce and approved by the General Federation of Chambers of Commerce at the first registration only.
• A copy of the tax card whose data is complete and identical to the data of the commercial register.
• A copy of the identity document.
• An official extract from the birth certificate or the military transaction to prove the nationality or the card for obtaining the Egyptian nationality, if the applicant was of compulsory origin. It must be more than ten years old.
• The decision to accept the resignation or termination of service for former employees of the government, public bodies, public institutions, local government units, public sector companies, or the public business sector, and two years must have passed since he left work.
Signing the acknowledgment form for the commercial agents and intermediaries register from the person concerned in front of the concerned employee, or approving the validity of his signature from the bank.
Notes:
• The registration is issued for a period of five years, regardless of the term of the agency contract.
• The registration is renewed every five years, and the renewal application must be submitted within the ninety days preceding the end of the registration so that the fees are not doubled during the ninety days following the end of the registration so that the registration is not written off after that administratively.

Documents and papers required to register companies in the Register of Commercial Agents and Brokers

• Completing the registration application signed by (the concerned person / responsible manager / chairman of the board of directors / managing director) in front of the competent employee, or the authenticity of the signature from an approved bank.
• An official certified copy of the agency or commercial mediation contract that includes the nature of the work of the commercial agent or broker / the geographical or commodity scope / the responsibility of the contract parties / the goods he deals with / the established commission rate and the conditions for its payment, the currency in which it is paid, the pledge of the principal and the obligation to notify the Egyptian consulate abroad of any change occurring in contracts.
• If the power of attorney is issued by a foreign company or entity, the agency contract must be authenticated by the competent chamber of commerce or the official body that takes its place in foreign countries and certified by the competent Egyptian Consulate with its translation according to the established rules regarding translation. The power of attorney may not be issued by a foreign company It has an agent from a public sector company, unless this power of attorney has expired.
• Agency contracts issued locally (persons - public business sector companies) are notarized by the real estate registry. As for government companies (public sector), it is sufficient to stamp the state emblem.
• An extract from the commercial register of the company, valid to work with, indicating the headquarters of the company's head office and the entry of commercial agency or brokerage business within its activity - the company's capital is not less than 20,000 Egyptian pounds.
• An official copy of the company's articles of incorporation and the amendments made to it, registered and notarized on it
• With regard to joint stock companies and limited by shares and companies with limited liability, a copy of the companies newspaper in which the company's contract and articles of association have been published shall be provided, and it shall be in conformity with the commercial register.
• A copy of the company's tax card, the data of which is complete and identical to the data of the commercial register (public sector companies are exempted from this).
• The last budget submitted by the company to the Tax Authority for the previous fiscal year in order to prove that its capital is not less than twenty thousand pounds (20,000 pounds) if the company is old and a year or more has passed. One of the banks approved in the name of the company (public sector companies are exempted from this).
• Certificate of experience in the field of commercial agencies from the competent Chamber of Commerce and approved by the General Federation of Chambers of Commerce at the first registration only (public sector companies are exempted from that).
• The following documents shall be submitted by all the general partners, managers, the chairman and members of the board of directors who have the right to manage and sign and whose names are listed in the commercial registry (public sector companies are exempted from this).
• Acknowledgment of the criminal status in accordance with Resolution 362 of 2005
• A copy of the identity document.
• An official extract from the birth certificate or the card for obtaining Egyptian citizenship if the applicant is of a foreign origin, and it must have been more than ten years old. This paragraph applies to limited partners in limited partnership companies - and companies with limited liability are treated as companies of persons.
• The decision to accept the resignation or the decision to terminate the service for former employees of the government, the public sector, the public business sector, institutions, public bodies, or local government units, and two years must have passed since he left work.
Signing the acknowledgment form for the register of commercial agents and intermediaries who have the right to manage and sign in front of the concerned employee, or a valid signature from the bank.
Notes:
The registration is issued for a period of five years, regardless of the term of the agency contract
• The registration is renewed every five years, and the renewal application must be submitted within the ninety days preceding the end of the registration so that the fees are not doubled during the ninety days following the end of the registration so that the registration is not written off after that administratively.


• Procedures for performing the service:
• Submitting documents in accordance with the provisions of Law No. (120) of 1982.
• Examination of documents.
• Financial audit and fee collection.
• Giving a temporary number, then entering the books with a permanent number.
• Technical review of documents
Entering documents into the computer
• Issuance of cards.
• Review the cards.
• Receipt of cards.
• Archiving files.
https://www.goeic.gov.eg/en/electronicServices/default/view/id/130


• Registration in the register of foreign companies' offices:
• About the service:
This service allows commercial clients to submit a new registration application to the offices of foreign companies or re-registration with the authority through the authority’s electronic portal on the Internet, in order to save time and facilitate the cycle of procedures for commercial clients, as the service aims to provide a mechanism for the application process for obtaining a new registration for the offices of foreign companies Or re-registration, which will contribute to reducing the time it takes to implement the service
• Place of service
The main center of the authority

• Conditions for obtaining the service
• The customer must have an account for electronic services on the portal and activated.
• The procedure must be completed at the authority's headquarters within 15 days from the date of submitting the application through the electronic portal.
• Required Documents
For the operations of registering the offices of foreign companies:
Fulfilling the prescribed registration application signed by the office manager responsible before the competent employee or his representative with an official general power of attorney or a certified authorization
An official letter issued by the company wishing to open the office, authenticated by the competent chamber of commerce and approved by the Egyptian embassy or consulate abroad, provided that the following is indicated in it:
 The nature of the activity that will be practiced by the office (scientific / technical / consultant / communication / representation)
 The geographical scope and the company's knowledge that the office is prohibited from engaging in any commercial activity.
 That it has an Egyptian agent and that the continuation of the office registration is linked to the presence of an Egyptian agent registered on its behalf
 Company
 The name and nationality of the manager appointed to manage the office, as well as the names and nationalities of the foreign employees who will work in the office, and its pledge to notify the authority with a notarized letter in case the director or any of the foreign workers in the office changes
 A certified translation of the referenced book according to the established rules regarding translation
 A valid copy (14 x agents) of the Egyptian agent
A data certificate to prove the registration of the Egyptian agent on behalf of the company (requested by the competent department of the authority)
A copy of the passport of the foreign director and the foreign workers + valid work permits for them. As for the Egyptian director, he submits a proof of identity document with the notification of the competent authority at the Ministry of Interior with the Egyptian manpower with a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt
 Signing the acknowledgment form for the registration of foreign offices in front of the competent employee, or the authenticity of a signature from the bank by the responsible manager
 Signing the pledge form of the Egyptian agent for the foreign company to which the office belongs in front of the competent employee, or a valid signature from the bank
o Notes:
The registration is issued for a period of five years and ends with the expiration of the validity of the registration or agency contract or the cancellation of the agent and the registration is renewed every five years, and the application for registration must be submitted within the ninety days preceding the end of the registration so that the fees are not doubled during the ninety days following the end of the registration so that the registration is not written off yet It is administratively.
 The registration of the foreign office shall be canceled if the agency contract in Egypt has expired and has not been renewed or the agency has ceased for any reason, or if it practices the business of a commercial agency in violation of the law. The aforementioned services office may not be re-registered except after the lapse of a period of no less than five years if it has practiced the business of a commercial agency in conflict with the law. the law.
• Procedures for performing the service:
 Issuance of the foreign offices register (Form 15 x foreign offices)
Submitting documents in accordance with the provisions of Law No. (120) of 1982
 Document checking
 Financial audit and fee collection
 Technical review of documents
 Giving a temporary number, then recording in the books a permanent number
 Card Review
 Inserting cards into a computer
 Copy cards
 Archiving files
https://www.goeic.gov.eg/en/electronicServices/default/view/id/139

• The possibility of issuing the service via the Internet
It cannot be extracted online.
There are some agencies that provide advisory services to importers:
1. Federation of Chambers of Commerce.
http://cairochamber.org.eg/chances.aspx
2. Many private offices that provide consulting services to importers
http://www.t9eg.com/
https://elngoom.com/
• Training agencies that provide training services to importers
There are many agencies that provide training services to educate importers, among which are:
1. Training Center of the General Organization for Export and Import Control
https://www.goeic.gov.eg/ar/training/categories/index/m/6-39
This is in addition to many offices and private training bodies, and everyone can register, and there are no programs specifically for women only
With regard to the specifications and quality of the products that are imported, all products must conform to the Egyptian standard specifications and be checked through the laboratory of the General Organization for Export and Import Control
https://www.goeic.gov.eg/ar/pages/default/view/id/125/m/6-19