[2020-04-16] Mozambique launches foreign trade website

Source: Macauhub

Foreign trade operators in Mozambique and the public in general are from Wednesday will have access to all the information required for the process of importing, exporting and transit of goods through a new website specifically designed for the purpose, officially launched on Tuesday in Maputo.

This is the External Trade Website, which is easy to access and brings together information from various public institutions involved in this activity and private service providers that play an important role in this area.

“Essentially, the website will give foreign trade operators access, comprehensively and in good time, to basic information for the implementation of import and export operations,” said a statement from the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The External Trade Website contains, among other information, procedures for the import, export and transit of goods, including the forms required, rates of customs duties levied on imports, procedures for appeal or review and agreements or parts of agreements on preferential access to markets of any country.

The launch of the External Trade Website follows the creation, in 2017, of the National Committee on Trade Facilitation, which is intended to coordinate, supervise and monitor the implementation in Mozambique of the Trade Facilitation Agreement.

The Trade Facilitation Agreement establishes that each Member State of the World Trade Organisation publishes, in a non-discriminatory and easily accessible way, all relevant information for international trade in order to allow governments, foreign trade operators and other interested parties to access it.