USER’S MANUAL
Merchandise passport
The ATA carnet is a free of duties and taxes customs
passage document, allowing temporary export of certain types of goods and
equipment in 76 countries, for various purposes including: commercial samples,
exhibiting in trade fairs and shows, cultural and sporting events and
professional equipment, according to the 1961 Brussels Convention and the 1990
Istanbul Convention. The carnet replaces the reporting obligations when
crossing every border and exempts from providing customs with a guarantee (bond
or deposit) due to Customs for any export or temporary import.
Flexible
It is a flexible document based on the goods travel
organization (single round trip, circle or star trip with multiple successive
entries and exits). It is presented in A4 paper format. It consists of a number
of leaflets and inserts components corresponding to the successive border
crossings.
validity
The ATA Carnet is valid for a 12-month-period but the
customs administration may limit this validity according to the intended use of
the goods. At the end of this validity, the user must return the book to the
issuing association, CACI in this case.
Procedure, bank guaranty and costs of issuance
ATA Carnets requests should be sent to Algerian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry - International Relations Department, Palais
Consulaire, 6 Bd Amilcar Cabral – Place des Martyrs- -Algiers.
Phone: 021.96.66.66
Fax: 021.96.70.70
E-mail: ata@caci.dz
The ATA Carnet is available for sale at the CACI TradeBookstore. To be signed and approved by the issuing and guaranteeing
association for Algeria: CACI, the ATA carnet shall be duly filled in by the
user. The carnet holder must submit a duly signed undertaking (form provided)
and a list of concerned goods.
The holder is required to deposit a bank guarantee
to 30% of the goods value (depending on destination and origin of the
goods). This amount will be refunded once the book is cleared and returned,
provided that it has been used with no anomaly.
N.B: The deposit of the bond is through the delivery of a certified cheque by the bank of the ATA carnet's holder to the order of "CACI".
Documents to provide:
- ATA Carnet duly
filled and signed by the holder
- The duly signed
undertaking
- A request to the
CACI explaining the intended use of the carnet
- List of goods on
letterhead of the company
- Trade Register and
tax identification number copies
- Declaration of the real value of the goods
ATA carnet issuance costs are calculated on basis of the goods value
according to the formula: L
Pre-tax issuance costs = DZD15,000 + 1% of goods value
; (VAT = 19%)
Border-crossing formalities
Present the goods at customs offices on both side of
crossed border. Have the ATA carnet counterfoil signed by customs, check the
authentification stamp apposition. Make sure the corresponding section has been
removed.
In case of litigation
Any book not cleared, incompletely cleared, cleared
out of time, used on an unauthorized basis can give rise to litigation claim of
the customs administrations of crossed countries / territories : customs
duties, taxes, penalties and fines, regularization taxes and management fees
- To safeguard the concerned company interests, CACI may
request any information or supporting documents to examine the dispute;
- The
Carnet holder is liable for the amounts that the CACI, sponsoring agency, could
be lead to pay for its account in regularizing the dispute;
- The customs carnet
holder must approach the Chamber of Commerce and Industry that issued this
book. The latter will indicate the procedure to regularize the transactions
with the concerned customs.
Note that:
- Goods must not be
hired, lent or used for payment.
- Goods to be
processed or repaired will not be covered by an ATA carnet
- Goods or materials
are required to return in the original condition, identically, in the country of departure,
without having undergone any processing;
- ATA Carnets do not
cover perishable or consumption goods.
OPERATING
INSTRUCTIONS
Once established,
the ATA customs carnet must be completed accurately by:
- its user,
- the issuing
Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- subsequently, by
the customs authorities.
The front cover
To be completed by
the user
Box A : HOLDER AND ADDRESS: indicate the name and address
of the company head office or the applicant's home address if not registered in
the Trade Register
Box B : REPRESENTED BY: mention the name and address of the
person entitled to submit articles or use the material. If other people have to
use the book, they must be provided by the carnet holder with an established
authority in their name.
Box C : INTENDED USE OF GOODS: specify as appropriate:
commercial samples, fairs, exhibitions, professional equipment, demonstration,
picture taking, competition
Signature
of the holder:The signature, which must appear at the bottom on
the right, is that of the head of the company (managing director, chairman of
the Board or any other person specifically designated by the latter).
To be completed by
CACI
The RESERVED FOR
THE ISSUING ASSOCIATION sections: CACI will tick off countries / territories to
which the goods are temporarily admitted and those through which they pass. The
Chamber of Commerce will assign a number to book and sign it.
To be completed by
the Algerian customs:
The CERTIFICATE OF
CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES section is completed by the customs office when the book and
the goods are presented, for management, before the leave on border
The back cover:
General list
Example: Temporary
export of 15 items for exhibition in a show.
|
Trade
description of the goods and, where appropriate, marks and numbers
|
Number of parts
|
Weight or volume
|
value
|
country
|
Reserved for
customs
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
1
2/7
8/15
|
Article reference 1
Article reference 2
Article reference 3
This list is close to 15 items for a total amount of DZD six million
nine hundred thousand
|
1
6
8
|
300 kg
600 kg
200 kg
|
DZD 10.000.000
DZD 40.000.000
DZD 25.000.000
|
IT
SG
ES
|
|
Total to be carried forward |
|
15
|
1100 kg
|
DZD65.000.000
| |
COLUMN 1: Each item is
assigned a serial number used by Customs to identify relevant articles during
various operations. These numbers form an unbroken series in ascending
numerical order. Goods of same nature and value can be grouped on the same
line, provided that a sequence number is assigned to each of them.
COLUMN 2:
Items are designated by a commercial name
COLUMN 3: The total number of items listed must be the last of the
sequence numbers listed in column 1.
COLUMN 4: The net weight per item or group of items should be
indicated
COLUMN 5: The sum must correspond to the market pre-tax value (the
price at which the goods would be made for export = transaction value) rounded
up to the top or bottom (not cents)
COLUMN 6:
indicate the origin of my goods
Leaves
On the front
Frames A, B and C
must be supplemented by the same information as on the front cover.
Frames E, D and F are used by the person presenting
the goods to customs and sign the leaf (when passing the border only).
Frames G and F are respectively reserved to the
issuing chamber of commerce and the customs authorities.
On the back
Fully replicate
the list of goods as it is written on the upper part of the back cover.