Jamaica - Import License / Permit

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Procedure

Apply Online
Using JSWIFT

1. The office in charge for issuing import permit is The Trade broad of Jamaica under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF). Please view the Trade board contact details and location map via this link: Link
2. However to apply for the import permit, you should submit your application online through the Jamaica Single Window for Trade (JSWIFT)
3. Access JSWIFT portal by clicking on Link and click on “login” in the information bar to go to your account or click on “Register” to create an account if you are not a registered user.
4. Fill the online registration form correctly and upload your identification documents as required.
5. Read and Agree to the Terms and Condition by clicking on the check box and then click on the reCAPTCHA to confirm that you are not a robot and then submit your application by clicking on the “Submit” button.
6. You will then be directed to the next page where you can review your application in details and opt to edit it by Clicking on the “Go Back” button or confirm submission once if you are satisfied with the application.
7. The you will receive an acknowledgment notification confirming to you that you application has been successfully submitted and that you should check according to pussy slap your email account to verify the email address that you have provided
8. Check your email account and verify your email address and then you will be directed to another link where you will find your JSWIFT user name.
9. Obtain the user name and click on the provided link to create your JSWIFT account password, In the next page key in your user name and preferred password, ensure that the password matches in the confirming password box and Click on “Create” you will then receive a notification informing you the your password has been successfully set
10. Now go to the JSWIFT website: Link and login using your account user name and password
11. Once logged in, in the dashboard select “Permit” and then Select “New” choose the regime of your application in this case “Import”
12. Then enter the general required information, details of the item to be imported, and attach al the required documents and pay the required fees using the online platform and submit your complete application.
13. Once you submit, the application is automatically assigned to the Trade Board Assessor and processed by way of “Approval”, “Query” for additional details or “Rejected” in whichever case you will be notified of the outcome through your email address
14. Upon approval, the finalized permit application is sent to ASYCUDA system under Jamaican custom agency.
15. Visit the ASYCUDA Link login into the system to upload your approved Import permit

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Required Documents

Supporting documents:
Milk and other Concentrated Products:

• Approval from the Bureau of Standards

Plants:

• Reference to be made to the Ministry of Agriculture.
• Drug permit to be obtained from the Ministry of Health.

Plant Extracts:

• Drug permit to be obtained from the Ministry of Health

Chemical and Gases:

• Drug permit to be obtained from the Ministry of Health.

Explosives:

• Permit from the Commissioner of Police;
• Same to be stamped and signed by the Collector of Customs;
• Ministry of National Security & Justice to grant approval

Motor Vehicles:

• Invoice/ Bill of Sale
• Registration Certificate or Certificate of Title (for used Vehicles)
• Importers TRN
• Valid ID (for individuals)
• Note: Beginning January 2, 2016 all commercially purchased used motor vehicles to be imported into Jamaica from Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, and South Africa will require a Pre-shipment Inspection (PSI) also known as Dealer Disclosure Certificate (DDC).

Guns and other Explosive Weapons:

• Approval from the Firearm Licensing Authority
• The Ministry of National Security (MNS)

Recreation Equipment:

• Approval from the Firearm Licensing Authority &The Ministry of National Security (MNS)
• Approved based on the policies and procedures of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act

Office Locations & Contacts

The Trade Board LTD
Address: 10th Floor,Air Jamaica Building 72,Harbour Street Kingston
Tel: (876)-967-0507 ,Toll Free (Jamaica Only):1-888-367-8247
Fax: (876)-948-5441 or (876)-948-7486
Email: [email protected] (Supporting Documents)
Email: [email protected]
Website: Link
Opening Hours: Monday - Thursday 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Friday - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Jamaica Single Window for Trade (JSWIFT)
Address: Myer’s Wharf, Newport East,Kingston 15
Telephone: 876-922-750-3050; 876-750-3096; 876-750-30977
Email: [email protected] and [email protected]
Website: link

Eligibility

You will need to secure an import license/permit if you will be importing these following items
Milk and other Concentrated Products:

• Milk and cream: concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
• In powder granules or the solid forms. Of fat content (not exceeding 1.5%)
• In powder, granules or other solid forms. Of a fat content (exceeding 1.5%)

Plants:

• Plants and parts of plants (include seeds and fruits) of a kind used only in perfumery. In pharmacy or for insecticidal fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh or dried. Whether or not cut, crushed or powdered. (Only those Hs. Nos. listed below)
• Other plant part for perfume and pharmaceutical purposes, eg., cannabis and cocoa leaf .

Plant Extracts:

• Lac: Natural gums, resins, gum resins and balsam (only those Hs. Nos. listed below)
• Cannabis resin
• Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar agar and other mucilages and thickeners. Whether or not modified. Derived from vegetable products.
• Vegetables, saps and extracts eg. Agar-Agar concentrate of poppy straw, extracts and tinctures of cannabis and opium.

Sugar:

• Cane and beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• Refined Sugar

Cement:

• Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement. Supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers (only those Heading Nos. listed below)
• Portland Cement
• Building Cement (grey)

Chemical and Gases:

• Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metal
• Hydrogen
• Rare gases
• Sulphuric acid; oleum
• Sulphuric acid; for chemical analysis
• Sulphuric acid: other
• Oleum

Explosives:

• Propellant powders
• Prepared explosives other than propellant powders
• Safety fuses, detonating fuses, percussion or detonating caps, igniters, electric detonators
• Fireworks, signaling flares, rain rockets, fog signals and other pyrotechnic articles (only those Hs. Nos. listed below)
• Fireworks
• Other

Equipment:

• Compressors mounted on wheeled chassis/trailer for towing
• Cranes and forklift, other work trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment/
• Self-propelled bulldozers, angel dozers, graders, levelers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers
• Other moving, grading, leveling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, mineral \s or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snow-plough and snow-blowers.
• Lawn Mowers
• Drilling Machine
• Concrete Drop Hammers
• Mobile Commercial standby generators, mobile hydrolic (propane, gasoline, diesel) of an output exceeding 75w

Motor Vehicles:

• 87.01 Tractors (other than tractors of Heading 87.09)
• 87.02 Public transport type passenger motor vehicles
• 87.03 Motor cars and other motor vehicles including station wagons and racing cars
• 87.04 Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 87.05 Special purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, breakdown lorries, crane lorries, fir-fighting vehicles, concrete-mixer lorries, road sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workshops, mobile radiological units)
• 87.06 Chassis fitted with engines (for motor vehicles of Hs. Nos. 87.02 to 87.05
• 87.07 Bodies (including cabs) for the motor vehicle of Hs. Nos. 87.02 87.04 (excluding cabs for pick-ups)
• 87.08 Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of Hs. Nos. 87.01 to 87.05 (only the Hs. No. listed below)
• 87.08.99.9 Other (Motor vehicle parts Front and Back Clip)
• 87.09 work Trucks self-propelled, not fitted with lifting or handling equipment of the type used in factories, warehouses, dock areas or airports for short distance transport of goods; tractors used on railway station platforms.
• 87.11 Motor cycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or without side cars
• 8716.20 Trailers and Semi-trailers;

Note: The Motor Vehicle Imports Policy has been amended to allow for importation of motor cars and light commercial vehicles of ages not exceeding five (5) years and six (6) years, respectively. Guns and other Explosive Weapons:

• 9301.00 Military weapons other than revolvers, pistols and the arms of HDG No. 93.07.00
• 9304.00 Other Arms (Rifle, Air/Spring Gun, Pistol, etc.) including those with HDG No. 93.07.00)
• 930200 Revolvers and pistols other than those of HDG Nos. 93.03 or 93.04.00
• 9305 Parts and accessories for Of 93.01 93.04
• 9306 Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles, similar ammunitions of war and parts thereof, including shot and cartridge wads, (only those HDG., Nos. listed below)

Recreation Equipment:

• Other (toy guns, recreational including water pistols)
• Other games: coin or disc-operated: Amusement machines other than bowling alley equipment

Fees

• Fees information: Link

Validity

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e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

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Processing Time

• The approval time is based on the processing at TBL. Kindly contact TBL for this information

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Instructions

• Partnership, Sole Trader, Public Trust and Ministries, Departments & Agencies (MDAs) as a User in the system.
• Users must first register as an individual on the JSWIFT platform and then after Login the registered user is able to register their company or associate themselves with a registered company as an Entity Chief or as an Employee.
• The user may have rights and privileges associated with their Entity based on their registered role in the system

Required Information

• Applicant details
• Address details
• Contact details
• Good details

Need for the Document

• You need a valid import license as an importer whose goods required one for the Goods to be allowed to enter Jamaica

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Other uses of the Document/Certificate

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External Links

• Trade Board: Link

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