Documents required for customs clearance in Angola

Documents required for customs clearance as follows:

• Original Commercial Invoice listing HTS codes for each item
• Original Packing List
• Original Certificate of Origin
• Angolan Loading Certificate issued in country of shipment

** Originals must be stamped with a company stamp and signed by the shipper in blue ink **

Your commercial invoice must include the currency of the values listed. It should also include unit value and number of units sold. Identifying the HTS code on the invoice is also helpful in classifying the item properly with the local customs office.

A schedule B # or HTS code is required for every shipment prior to export.

If the value exceeds $2500 value, please also provide a completed SLI to R&R Global or complete the export declaration on the R&R Global website.

If your booking is Full Container (FCL), a VGM form must be completed before documentation cutoff date.

Please provide a scanned copy of the documents to R&R Global prior to freight departure.

Shipments to a military base may require additional fees and paperwork if the base requires an exclusive truck for delivery or bonded delivery.

Items prohibited from import into Angola include:

• Animals and Plants – 
• “Morality”-related 
• Vehicles – Passenger vehicles more than 6 years 
• Biotechnology 
• Imitations of national franchise formulas.
• home-made or handmade medicines.
• Used batteries and accumulators.
• Retreaded or used tires.
• Counterfeit Goods

Goods requiring import licenses for specific Ministries include:

• Pharmaceutical products for human use
• Radios, transmitters, receivers, and other devices 
• Weapons, ammunitions, fireworks, and explosives 
• Plants, roots, bulbs, microbial cultures, buds, fruits, seeds 
• Fiscal or postal stamps 
• Poisonous and toxic substances and pharmaceuticals 
• Samples or other goods imported for promotion and not commercial sale (Customs).

Important: Exercise independent care before relying on information contained herein. Although we strive to ensure all information is correct and current, R&R Global assumes no liability for detrimental reliance on this information. Trade requirements may change with little or no prior notification, de-facto requirements in certain countries vary from official regulations, and particular shipments and/or importers may have special destination customs arrangements. We encourage you to check with the importer or its customs agent in the destination country for specific importation requirements for specific products and circumstances. Additional resource www.trade.gov