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INFORMACION ADICIONAL |
Passengers Red & Green Channel Guideline
This information is issued to inform our esteemed passengers that
Ethiopian Customs Authority has started the Green and Red Channel
Service as from the 9th January, 2001 in order to upgrade our service at
the passenger arrival hall up to the international standard and to
facilitate our passengers. Therefore, all passengers should strictly
follow the following instructions.
1. This guideline is Passengers' Red and Green Channel
guideline.
2. Definition
a. Green Channel means the channel passengers use to take their goods in
#3 below without declaring to customs.
b. Red channel means the computerized channel where passengers declare
and pay duties and taxes for the goods /not in commercial quantity/ they
have brought a little over what is allowed in #3 below.
c. Passenger's declaration means the declaration they can get form the
counter before immigration on arrival.
3. Any in-coming passenger will not declare for the
following goods;-
a. One Radio with no cassette player;
b. One Camera ( not professional)
c. Personal clothes and shoes ( for non-returnees);
d. Recorded audio and video cassettes ( six each);
e. Personal care perfumes, soap, shavers, tooth brush, creams, lipsticks
etc. ( six each);
f. Alcoholic liquor ( not more than 2 litres);
g. Not more than 20 packets of cigarettes;
If you have goods not allowed in this list you have to declare at the
red-channel and pay duties and taxes.
4. All passengers must declare foreign exchange according to the
regulation of the National Bank of Ethiopia.
5. Passengers who have been abroad for more than three months shall not
enjoy duty free privilege again for the goods they have imported through
the green channel.
6. Prohibited items by law such as plants, opium, psychotropic
substances, drugs, ethyl alcohol, yellow methanol, military uniform,
explosives, military binoculars, monocular and items which are dangerous
for the safety and security of the people and the country can not be
imported into the country.
7. Items which need special permit from Ministry of Health, Quality and
Standards Authority of Ethiopia, National Tobacco Enterprise, National
Lottery Administration, Ethiopian Wild life Protection Enterprise,
Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Energy and Mining, Ethiopian
Television, Immigration and Refugees Affairs, Ethiopian
Telecommunications Corporation, National Meteorological Service,
Ministry of Transport and Communications must submit as requested.
8.Valuation of Goods
a. Passengers must submit their genuine invoices for the goods they
declare at the red channel;
b. If the passenger cannot submit genuine invoice the goods shall be
valued on the basis of Identical goods valuation method;
9. Rate of Duties and Taxes
The current duties and taxes based on the HS1996 version shall apply.
10. Tourists, and other passengers who come to the country either for
conferences or other missions can take with them one video camera, one
laptop computer, one projector etc. which are important for their
mission upon declaration to customs but are not subject to duties and
taxes. They should collect a copy of the declaration for themselves for
submission to customs with the items on departure.
11. In-coming passengers who cannot pay duties and taxes upon
declaration at the red channel can deposit their goods with customs upon
a receipt to clear their goods on subsequent days.
12. Any passenger who is found guilty of taking with him goods which are
not in #3 above shall be taken to the red channel and penalised to pay
double of the normal duties and taxes. The Law shall punish any
passenger who is found to take with him prohibited goods.
13. All customs officers shall assist and provide excellent service to
facilitate passengers.
TOURISTS AND SHORT TIME VISITORS
1.Tourists and those who visit Ethiopia for a brief
period of time can have accompanied dutiable items who will be released
upon registration at the entry point and communicated to the exit point
as indicated in No.10 above ;
2.These items should be exported back upon finishing their mission; if
not returned they are liable for duties and taxes at the exit point;
PERSONS UPON FIRST ARRIVAL TO TAKE UP RESIDENCE IN
ETHIOPIA
1.Persons arriving to take up residence in Ethiopia
should produce declarations, the list of their personal effects, their
residence permit and employment contract from the employer organization
to the customs station of their entry point and import their personal
effects excluding vehicle duty free.
2.They have to import their personal effects within three months from
their first arrival.
3.The customs station which deals with such entitlements should submit
detailed reports as to the name of the expatriate, the employer
organization, the list of goods imported duty-foregone etc.
4.The HQ shall establish and keep records for the same.
5.When leaving the country, they can transfer/sale their goods to
persons with an equal right. Sales to persons who do not have duty free
privilege is subject to duties and taxes due to customs or re-export
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