قائمة الامتثال التجاري

Every trade: producer and exporting countries

• Seller registered or licensed with the national coffee authority or board as a grower, processor, dealer or exporter, where required.
• Any national rule on how coffee must be sold (auction, exchange, registered or approved contract, minimum export prices) checked and followed.
• Export licence or permit and export declaration; export levies and taxes paid.
• Certificate of origin (ICO certificate of origin, coffee board or chamber of commerce certificate, as the destination requires).
• Phytosanitary certificate from the national plant protection organisation, plus any fumigation or treatment certificate.
• Quality or grading certificate and pre-shipment sample approval, if required nationally or by the contract.
• Plot geolocation, farm and lot traceability records kept, ready for buyers' due diligence (EU and others).

European Union

• EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR): the operator placing coffee on the EU market files a due diligence statement with plot geolocation, and shows the coffee is deforestation-free (no deforestation after 31 December 2020) and legally produced. Application dates have been postponed before, so check the current dates on the European Commission's EUDR pages.
• EU general food law: importer is a registered food business, keeps one-step-back/one-step-forward traceability, and meets limits for contaminants such as ochratoxin A and for pesticide residues.
• EORI number, customs declaration, correct tariff code (green coffee is under HS 0901.11) and VAT.
• Organic lots: a certificate of inspection issued through the EU TRACES system.

United Kingdom

• EORI number, customs declaration, UK tariff and VAT.
• UK food law: importer registered as a food business, traceability, contaminant and pesticide limits.
• Organic lots: GB organic certificate of inspection through the UK's import system.
• Check whether UK forest-risk commodity rules apply to coffee at the time of import.

United States

• Foreign facilities that manufacture, process, pack or hold the coffee registered with the FDA, where required, and FDA Prior Notice filed before each shipment arrives.
• US importer meets the FDA Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) rules.
• CBP entry, Importer Security Filing (ISF, "10+2") for ocean freight, and current tariffs, which have changed often.
• Organic lots: USDA organic import certificate in the CBP system.
• No dealings with persons or places on OFAC sanctions lists.

Canada

• Importer holds a Safe Food for Canadians licence from the CFIA, where required, with a preventive control plan and traceability.
• CBSA customs declaration and duties/taxes.
• Organic lots: certified under the Canada Organic Regime or an equivalent arrangement.

China

• Overseas food producers registered with China Customs (GACC) where the product category requires it.
• Importer registered with China Customs; inspection and quarantine at entry; Chinese labelling for packaged goods.

Japan

• Import notification under the Food Sanitation Act at a quarantine station, and pesticide residues within Japan's positive-list limits.
• Organic claims only with JAS organic certification.

South Korea

• Import declaration to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS); foreign manufacturing facility registered where required.
• Inspection and testing on arrival as MFDS requires.

Australia and New Zealand

• Australia: green coffee meets the biosecurity import conditions in BICON (for example freedom from soil, pests and contaminants; some lots may need treatment or inspection) and the Imported Food Inspection Scheme.
• New Zealand: MPI import health standard and food import rules.

Middle East (Gulf states)

• Importer and product registration with the food authority, for example SFDA in Saudi Arabia or the municipal food import systems in the UAE.
• Health or phytosanitary certificate and a certificate of origin, which may need to be legalised or attested.
• Arabic labelling for packaged goods and any conformity certificates required.

Every trade: money, sanctions and ethics

• Know your counterparty: check the company is real, its licence and registration, and that bank details match the company name.
• Screen both parties and the destination against UN, US, EU and UK sanctions lists.
• Follow anti-money-laundering rules; be wary of unusual payment routes or third-party payers.
• No bribes or improper payments to anyone, including officials, to obtain licences, certificates or contracts.

Also see

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