Obtaining permission to order goods
How is the product order and registration process?
Any natural or legal person who intends to import foreign goods into the country must first obtain the necessary permit. The license to order goods is valid for 6 months and must be renewed if not used.
The license to order goods is issued by the Iran Trade Development Organization and includes an eight-digit license number and order registration date, along with the number and date of the proforma and the name of the applicant company (it can be the importing company).
Individuals and legal entities can register by visiting the ntsw.ir website and by receiving a personal user code and password, they can register their import orders online within 24 hours in any place with internet access. All necessary follow-ups until the result (receiving confirmation of order registration) are also possible through this system.
The order registration steps for importing goods are:
Receive the proforma from the seller
Knowledge of the tariff of the desired product to place an order
Checking the value of goods in the customs TSC system
Checking the priority of goods
Checking the inclusion of the required licenses (if a license is required from the relevant organization)
Uploading the proforma and completing the order registration process in the Comprehensive Trading System (NTSW)
Go to the insurance company and get the insurance policy
Registering an order in the transaction intermediary bank to pay the order registration fee (after completing the credit opening request form along with the bank form, proforma, insurance policy and authorization letter)
In these steps, applicants can register their order and do all the necessary follow-up steps to receive confirmation of order registration through this system.
Required documents, license to order goods:
License to order goods: required documents
Business Cards
• Pre-invoice or proforma
• Mandatory standard
• Obtaining the seller’s ID from the FIDA system
• Obtaining technical certificates from relevant devices
• Order
• Opening of credit by providing the proforma and preparing and delivering purchase and shipping documents to the broker bank
• Provide ID of origin of imported currency
Necessary documents for importing goods
- Receiving purchase documents including invoice, bill of lading, inspection certificate, baling, certificate of origin, certificate of declaration of currency supply from the bank
• Providing the original bill of lading and settling the account with the shipping company to receive the warehouse bill
• Submitting the original power of attorney to customs
• Setting declaration, tariff, value, related calculations
Determining the path of declaration: green (document control), yellow (document control and value control), red (document control, value control, physical examination of goods)
• Submission of documents to the customs authentication unit: invoice, original copy of bill of lading, baling, certificate of origin, certificate of currency supply, original copy of commercial card, insurance and warehouse bill, original order registration, copy of proforma, allocation of cottage number
• Obtaining a technical compliance certificate from the relevant devices
• Control by the evaluation unit according to the path of the declaration, mandatory standard review, payment of entry fees based on the opinion of the evaluation unit
• Issuance of customs green permit
• Loading in the presence of the goods owner or his representative
• Exit door control, including product control, product counting, tariff control, value control
• Exiting the customs
invoice
A pre-invoice or proforma is a commercial document issued by the seller (exporter) in the name of the foreign customer or its sales agents abroad. This document is usually used by the buyer (importer) to check the terms of the offer and the entry of the goods or possibly to purchase foreign exchange. Also, in some cases, the seller may receive the necessary permissions from the buyer in the form of an invitation to order the goods.
In the proforma, the following conditions should be included:
Full name and address of the buyer (including telephone and fax numbers)
Full name and address of the seller (including phone and fax numbers)
Full product specifications
FOB price, freight charge
Amount, weight, number and type of packaging of goods
The name of the seller’s country and the name of the producer’s country
The name of the country of origin of shipment, place of loading, means of transportation and delivery deadline
The name of the traded currency and the method of payment for the goods
Name of entry border and destination customs
The number and date of proforma issuance and its signature along with the expiration date
Inserting the standard number of one of the standards accepted by the Iranian Standards Institute and declaring the conformity of the product with the said standard in cases where the product is included in the list of declared import standards.
Providing catalogs for machinery and some consumer goods and brochures or analysis for some chemical goods that require product specifications.
