Uganda: 'Uninformed' Traders Count Their Losses Over Pre-Export Inspection

29 September 2013

Baker Kaddu is poised to lose Shs 17.2m to Uganda National Bureau of Standards, as surcharge for failure to comply with the recently introduced Pre-export Verification of Conformity (Pvoc) programme.

Pvoc, effected in July, involves all Ugandan imports being tested at their countries of origin for conformity with minimum Uganda standards. The Uganda government contracted Bureau Veritas, SGS and Intertek as inspection service providers with whom all traders were expected to liaise for inspection before importing anything.

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