Nigeria’s list of
prohibited or restricted imports is as follows:
1.
Live or dead birds
including frozen poultry.
2.
Pork, beef, bird’s eggs,
excluding hatching eggs
3.
Refined vegetable oils
and fats (includes mayonnaise). Crude vegetable oil is NOT banned from
importation.
4.
Cane or beet sugar and
chemically pure sucrose, in solid form in retail packs.
5.
Cocoa butter, powder and
cakes.
6.
Spaghetti/noodles.
7.
Fruit Juice in retail
packs.
8.
Waters, including
mineral waters and aerated waters containing added sugar or sweetening matter
or flavored, ice snow, other non-alcoholic beverages and beer and stout
(bottled, canned or otherwise packed, but excluding energy or health drinks
(liquid dietary supplements).
9.
Bagged cement.
10.
Medicaments as indicated
below:
·
Paracetamol tablets and
syrups;
·
Cotrimoxazole tablets
and syrups;
·
Metronidazole tablets
and syrups;
·
Chloroquine tablets and
syrups;
·
Haematinic formulations;
ferrous sulphate and ferrous gluconate tablets, folic acid tablets, vitamin B
Complex Tablets (except modified released formulations).
·
Multivitamin tablets,
capsules and syrups (except special formulations);
·
Aspirin tablets (except
modified released formulation and soluble aspirin);
·
Magnesium trisilicate
tablets and suspensions.
·
Piperazine tablets and
syrups;
·
Levamisole tablets and
syrups;
·
Clotrimazole cream;
·
Ointments –
penicillin/gentamycin;
·
Pyrantel pamoate tablets
and syrups; and
·
Intravenous fluids
(dextrose, normal saline, etc.).
·
Waste Pharmaceuticals.
11.
Soaps and Detergents in
retail packs only.
12.
Mosquito Repellent
Coils.
13.
Sanitary Wares of
Plastics and Domestic Articles and Wares of Plastics (but excluding Baby
Feeding bottles) and flushing cistern and waterless toilets.
14.
Rethreaded and used
Pneumatic tires but excluding used trucks tires for rethreading of sized 11.00
x 20 and above.
15.
Corrugated Paper and
Paper Boards, and cartons, boxes and cases made from corrugated paper and paper
boards, toilet paper, cleaning or facial tissue, excluding baby diapers and
incontinent pads for adult use.
16.
Telephone Re-charge
cards and vouchers.
17.
Carpets and other
textile floor coverings.
18.
All types of Foot Wears,
Bags and Suitcases but excluding Safety Shoes used in oil industries, sports
shoes, canvass shoes all Completely Knocked Down (CKD) blanks and parts.
19.
Hollow Glass Bottles of
a capacity exceeding 150mls (0.15 liters) of all kinds used for packaging of
beverages by breweries and other beverage and drink companies.
20.
Used compressors and
used fridges/freezers.
21.
Used Motor Vehicles
above fifteen (15) years from the year of manufacture.
22.
Furniture, but excluding
baby walkers, laboratory cabinets such as microscope table, fume cupboards,
laboratory benches, Stadium Chairs, height adjustments device, base sledge,
seat frames and control mechanism, arm guide and head guides. Also excluded
are; skeletal parts of furniture such as blanks, upholstered or unfinished part
of metal, plastics, veneer, chair shell etc. Also excluded are Motor
Vehicle seats and Seats other than garden seats or camping equipment,
convertible into beds.
23.
Ball Point Pens and
parts including refills (excluding tip).
In addition, NCS lists items whose importation is “absolutely prohibited:”
1.
Air Pistols
2.
Airmail Photographic
Printing Paper.
3.
All counterfeit/pirated
materials or articles including Base or Counterfeit Coin of any Country.
4.
Beads composed of
inflammable celluloid or other similar substances.
5.
Blank invoices.
6.
Coupons for Foreign
Football pools or other betting arrangements.
7.
Cowries.
8.
Exhausted tea or tea
mixed with other substances.
9.
Implements appertaining
to the reloading of cartridges.
10.
Indecent or obscene
prints, painting, books, cards, engraving or any indecent or obscene articles.
11.
Manilas.
12.
Matches made with white
phosphorous.
13.
Materials of any
description with a design which, considering the purpose for which any such
material is intended to be used, is likely in - the opinion of the president to
create a breach of the peace or to offend the religious views of any class of
persons in Nigeria.
14.
Meat, Vegetables or
other provisions declared by a health officer to be unfit for human
consumption.
15.
Piece goods and all
other textiles including wearing apparel, hardware of all kinds' crockery and
china or earthenware goods bearing inscriptions (whether in Roman or Arabic
characters) from the Koran or from the traditions and commentaries on the
Koran.
16.
Pistols disguised in any
form.
17.
Second-hand clothing.
18.
Silver or metal alloy
coins not being legal tender in Nigeria.
19.
Nuclear Industrial waste
and other Toxic waste
20.
Some spirits
21.
Weapons and ammunition
of any description which in the opinion of the Comptroller-General are designed
for the discharge of any noxious liquid, gas or other similar substance.
Besides
the import restrictions by NCS, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in
2015 restricted access to foreign exchange at the official window for importers
of several items. Instead, importers of the under-listed items source foreign
exchange from the parallel market where the price of forex is significantly
higher than the official rate. However, in May 2017, the CBN lifted the
restriction on importers whose cumulative transactions are $20,000 and below
per quarter.
Items which are ineligible for Foreign Exchange at the CBN’s Official Window are as follows:
Items which are ineligible for Foreign Exchange at the CBN’s Official Window are as follows:
1.
Rice
2.
Cement
3.
Margarine
4.
Palm kernel/Palm oil
products/vegetables oils
5.
Meat and processed meat
products
6.
Vegetables and processed
vegetable products
7.
Poultry chicken, eggs,
turkey
8.
Private airplanes/jets
9.
Indian incense
10. Tinned fish in
sauce(Geisha)/sardines
11. Cold rolled steel sheets
12. Galvanized steel sheets
13. Roofing sheets
14. Wheelbarrows
15. Head pans
16. Metal boxes and
containers
17. Enamelware
18. Steel drums
19. Steel pipes
20. Wire rods (deformed and
not deformed)
21. Iron rods and
reinforcing bard
22. Wire mesh
23. Steel nails
24. Security and razor wire
25.
Wood particle boards and
panels
26.
Wood Fibre Boards and
Panels
27.
Plywood boards and
panels
28.
Wooden doors
29.
Toothpicks
30.
Glass and Glassware
31.
Kitchen utensils
32. Tableware
33.
Tiles-vitrified and
ceramic
34.
Textiles
35.
Woven fabrics
36.
Clothes
37. Plastic and rubber products, polypropylene granules, cellophane wrappers
38.
Soap and cosmetics
39.
Tomatoes/tomato pastes
40.
Eurobond/foreign
currency bond/ share purchases
Customs
Regulations: NCS’ Customs and Excise Tariff is based on the Customs
Cooperation Council Nomenclature (CCCN). Duties are either specific or ad
valorem, depending on the commodity, and are payable in Nigerian Naira upon
entry. Import tariffs are non-preferential and apply equally to all
countries outside the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
A local insurance company must insure all imported goods. A special duty
may be imposed on imported goods if the government feels that such goods are
being dumped or unfairly subsidized, thus threatening established or potential
domestic industries.
Duties previously paid on abandoned, re-exported, damaged, or destroyed goods may be refunded. However, a claim must be made before the goods leave customs custody. A destruction certificate must be obtained from a customs officer to obtain a refund of duties paid for goods that were subsequently destroyed. Upon presentation of a customs certificate attesting to the landing of goods in another country, duties paid on such goods in Nigeria will be refunded.
Duties previously paid on abandoned, re-exported, damaged, or destroyed goods may be refunded. However, a claim must be made before the goods leave customs custody. A destruction certificate must be obtained from a customs officer to obtain a refund of duties paid for goods that were subsequently destroyed. Upon presentation of a customs certificate attesting to the landing of goods in another country, duties paid on such goods in Nigeria will be refunded.
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