iTrade Laws and Regulations

Policies for encouraging Foreign Direct Investments

Indicates all documents required when transporting goods to Cambodia such as bill of lading, carrier’s report, export goods release minute, outward carriers report and truck insurances.

Cambodia Documents for Importers and Exporters

Both importers and exporters first need to register with Cambodia’s Department of Business Registration, under the Ministry of Commerce. Cambodia uses the Automated System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA) created under the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). To register with ASYCUDA, importers and exports require a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). To acquire a TIN, importers and exporters must register with the General Department of Taxation, under the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

The purpose of the law is to prevent infectious or parasitic diseases of animals, diseases to insect pests and weeds dangerous to plants, and other harmful organisms from spreading into or out of the country, protecting the production of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery as well as human health, and promoting the development of foreign economic relations and trade.

This law pertains to the inspection of import and export commodities countrywide – through quarantine bureaus and their branches established by the AQSIQ at the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, as well as at the ports, and the distribution centers.

The Law relates to the collection of import or export duties on all goods permitted by the People’s Republic of China to be imported into or exported out of the Customs territory and all inward articles.

The Law relates to exercising control over means of transport, goods, travellers’ luggage, postal items and other articles entering or leaving the territory, collect Customs duties and other taxes and fees, prevent and combat smuggling, compile Customs statistics and handle other Customs operations.

Procedures for plant quarantine for import, export, transit and post-import of articles subject to plant quarantine