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Ref : EIC 429/2

6 January 2015

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 34/2015

Paraguay : Import Licensing Requirements for Certain Footwear and Textiles and Apparel Products

The Paraguayan government issued Resolutions No. 1029/2014 and 1037/2014 on 10 October 2014 and 15 October 2014 respectively to establish import licencing requirements for certain footwear, and textiles and apparel products.

2.Parties interested in obtaining an advance import licence must first register in the Importers Registry and renew their registration every year.  The applicant can then obtain advance import licence by:

  1. sending a signed request to the Ministry of Industry and Trade ("Ministro de Industria y Comercio" in Spanish);
  2. completing a prior import licence form;
  3. providing a technical report from the National Institute of Technology, Standardisation and Metrology (INTN) (for footwear); and
  4. providing a certified copy (for footwear) or an original copy (for textiles and apparel products) of the following documents:
  1. a packing list with NCM code at 8-digit level;
  2. a legal commercial invoice with detailed description and the unit price of the product;
  3. a bill of lading;
  4. a tax compliance certificate issued by the State Under-Secretariat for Taxes of the Ministry of Finance; and
  5. the registration in Importers Registry (for footwear); or
  6. an invoice showing payment of the applicable fee (for textiles and apparel product).
Invoices confirming the origin of the goods must be endorsed by the consular office of the country of origin or the place of acquisition of the goods, or in the absence of which, the nearest consular office to the place of acquisition or shipment of the goods.

3.For details, traders are advised to consult their importers in Paraguay and/or the above Paraguayan Resolutions (in Spanish), which are available at:

Resolution No. 1029/2014 (relevant to footwear)
http://www.snin.gov.py/reglamentos/Resolucion%201029%20del%2010%20de%20octubre%20del%202014.pdf

Resolution No. 1037/2014 (relevant to textiles and apparel products)
http://www.snin.gov.py/reglamentos/Resolucion%201037%20del%202014.pdf.

ENQUIRIES

4.For enquiries concerning this circular, please contact Mr Lewis LAU at telephone number 2398 5405.

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Cindy CHENG)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

Note: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.