Export Procedure - Rwanda
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Documents required
- Export Customs Clearance documents;
- Customs Entry document;
- Customs bond
- Legal undertaking
- Customs declarations
- Export License
- Certificate of Origin
- Insurance Certificate
- Certificates of inspection (Description of goods, Technical specifications, Quantity, Price, Payment terms, Delivery time etc).
- Payment guarantee (confirm with your bank on validity)
Contacts:
MEGERWA Street/KK 6 AV
email: https://naeb.gov.rw
info@naeb.gov.rw
Hotline: 3800
Export information and Licenses in Rwanda
The Rwanda Exporters Development Program (REDP) facilitates development of export capacities as well as technical assistance to Rwandan exporters.
The demand for Rwanda’s tradition exports - coffee, tea, and minerals, remains high in the regional and international markets. It is estimated that 55.3% of workers in the tourism industry are female. As one of the most significant tradable sectors, tourism, exhibits significant growth potential in Rwanda.
An assessment of regional and international markets shows that there is also a potential for Rwanda’s non-traditional exports. Non-traditional exports from Rwanda include live animals and animal produce, vegetable produce, agro-processed goods, manufactured goods as well as hides and skins.
Ministry of Trade and Industry has also launched a campaign dubbed “Made in Rwanda” with the objective of promoting local products and reducing the country’s trade deficit.
In exporting, the exporter provides the standard requirements of the products recognized by Rwanda Bureau of Standards.
Export market penetration strategies
- Participation in exhibitions
- Trade missions for market linkages
- Market information gathering
Services beneficial to women exporters
- NAEB pays the exhibition booth/stands
- Sometimes transport up keep for market linkages trips.
Export Procedure
Once you have registered successfully and obtained your company registration number, you can start accessing services offered by the Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS).
If your plan involves exporting coffee you also have to register with the National Agricultural Export Promotion Board (NAEB), which offers support services specifically targeted at coffee and horticulture exports. If you want to export tea or other horticulture products, you have the option to register with NAEB, in order to profit from its support.
Fees and mandatory registration currently only apply to coffee exporters. To obtain an export license and exporter ID code from NAEB, you need to write a formal letter to NAEB requesting for registration. The letter must include the following documents:
• RDB business registration code
• Business plan detailing your export and warehousing capacity (Note: a minimum of 50 tones are required to be granted an export license)
• Copy of the business’s exporting contract with a foreign buyer if your application has successfully been accepted, NAEB will contact you within one working day to arrange for a site visit.
Inspectors assess the veracity of the claims made in the paper application. If you pass this stage, you will be issued with an export code.
Export codes are reviewed on an annual basis. For every coffee export, NAEB charges a fee worth 3% of the total value of exported coffee.
In addition, RWF 97 per kilo are charged if NAEB-distributed fertilizers and RWF 11 per kilo if NAEB-distributed pesticides have been used in coffee production.
These fees cover all services offered by NAEB, including issuance of certificates and technical training.
Note: Tea and horticulture exporters receive free support from NAEB. Registration with NAEB for these sectors is not compulsory as of now.
Government’s promotion of horticulture exports continues; fees for certain categories of produces might however be introduced and registration made compulsory.