20 firms approved to import as cargo consolidators
Cargo arriving into the country without a certificate of inspection shall not be allowed into the country.
Kebs has contracted five agencies to inspect goods destined to Kenya from across the globe under the Pre-Export Verification on Conformity (PVoC) programme.
All consolidated cargo will be subjected to mandatory inspection in the country of supply starting tomorrow in a move aimed at weeding out substandard goods, the taxman and the bureau of standards has announced.
In a statement Thursday, the Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) and the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) warned cargo consolidators and the general public that all cargo arriving into the country without a certificate of inspection shall not be allowed into the country.
Consolidated cargo refers to a wide range of products or general merchandise imported in small quantities or parcels belonging to several traders who have pooled or assembled together with their parcels to form one consignment.
“We wish to inform cargo consolidators and the general public that all consolidated cargo shall be subjected to mandatory in the country of supply starting June 1.
“All cargo consolidators who applied for registration and fulfilled the requirements for registration are advised to contact Kebs for their provisional registration certificate by May 31, to facilitate inspection of their cargo under route D of Pre-Export Verification of Conformity (PVoC) programme,” said the notice.
Kebs issued a notice last month to all importers of consolidated cargo for both air and sea to register with the agency to have their goods inspected under a new procedure created in 2005 by the standards agency and KRA.
The new procedure, which has seen 20 firms approved to import as consolidators, targets cargo containing a wide range of products.
It also targets merchandise in small quantities or parcels belonging to several consignees who have assembled together their parcels to form one consignment which may be declared as belonging to one importer at the port of destination.
According to the new procedure, aimed at checking the inflow of fake products in to the country, all consolidated cargo must be inspected in the country of supply by the Kebs appointed inspection agents and issued with a Certificate of Inspection (CoI) before imported to Kenya.
This has seen Kebs contracted five agencies to inspect goods destined to Kenya from across the globe under the Pre-Export Verification on Conformity (PVoC) programme.
They include Cotecna Inspection SA, Bureau Veritas, Société Générale de Surveillance SA (SGS), Intertek International Ltd and China Certification and Inspection Group.
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