Information Guide

The import customs clearance procedure in the DRC requires, on average, the presentation of nine documents:

  • The supplier's invoice duly bearing the security label of the inspection company and certified as compliant upstream by the OCC.
  • The packing list,
  • The freight note or insurance,
  • The bill of landing (if it is by sea),
  • Air waybill (if by air),
  • import license,
  • Verification certificates – BIVAC,
  • Note from the Multimodal Freight Management Office (Ogefrem),
  • Import authorization for certain products.

Import tax

An imported product will thus be subject on the basis of its CIF value (cost, insurance, freight) to a customs duty between 0% and 20.0% plus a consumption duty (also called excise duty) between 0 % and 60.0%.

To the sum of these two rights, we add the VAT of 19.0%.

Address and contact of the head office of the DGDA

June 30 Boulevard,

Royal Square, Kinshasa, Gombe,

Democratic Republic of Congo

Green number: +243 82 19 20 21 5

Email address: info@douane.gouv.cd

Customs procedure for importing into the Democratic Republic of Congo

The registration formalities for traders, required for the export of goods, also apply to imports. As in the case of imports, export formalities have also been handled by a one-stop shop since January 2010 and require the prior subscription of a model quotIBquot declaration or license (import of goods) with a bank, the Banque Centrale du Congo or an approved commercial bank.

Click here for more information on import and export licenses

With the current Congolese code which governs customs, the economic operator has the possibility of carrying out customs formalities himself on the sole condition of paying a deposit of 50,000USD.

Under the authority of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Ministry of Finance, the reform of the Integral Single Window for Foreign Trade (GUICE) is operated by SEGUCE RDC SA , a private operator within the framework of a public-private partnership, according to the best internationally recognized practices.

By Decree No. 019/15 of October 14, 2015, the Single Window for Foreign Trade was established to meet the need to simplify, by electronic means, the procedures of all the services involved in customs clearance operations.

It is the system allowing operators involved in trade and transport to communicate standardized information and documents at a single point of entry in order to meet all the formalities required in the event of import , export and transit. . The Single Window takes into account these three packages of pre-clearance, customs clearance and post-clearance

Register by clicking here to be trained in the use of GUICE in accordance with the different modules.

Otherwise, the operator can consult a customs agency or a customs broker who meets the standards according to the laws governing customs procedure.

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Import clearance procedure

The steps to follow by category:

Goods and products that require prior authorization and are subject to pre-shipment control

  • Submit the request for import authorization to the appropriate Administration;
  • Sign a declaration of importation of goods with an approved bank;
  • Availability of it on the ISYS platform; extraction of said declaration and sending of the control order by the OCC ( www.occ-rdc.cd )
  • Issuance of the pre-boarding control verification certificate and availability of the latter in the Single Window system after preparation of the control fee schedule and introduction in the bank;
  • Subscribe to the Electronic Import Information Sheet (FERI) of departure ( info@ogefrem.cd );
  • Embark the goods for the DRC and obtain the transport document.

Imported goods not requiring authorization and subject to pre-shipment control

The procedure begins with point 2 of the procedure described in point I above.

Regular import subject to control on arrival

Presentation at the Single Window for customs clearance:

  • From control order to arrival;
  • Of the final invoice;
  • From the transport document.

Irregular import

Presentation at the Customs Clearance Counter:

  • Of the final invoice;
  • The transport document;
  • Payment of additional costs to the OCC and penalties to the DGDA .

Four (4) public institutions operate at the borders.

It is :

  • The General Directorate of Customs and Excise (DGDA):
  • The Congolese Control Office (OCC): collects, on behalf of the company BIVAC (Bureau Veritas Certificate of Inspection), the pre-shipment inspection costs.
  • The hygiene service (composed of the health and agriculture services);
  • As well as the General Directorate of Migration (DGM).
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