1 Jun 2014

Nigeria Customs Service Import Prohibition List

1. Furniture but excluding baby walkers, laboratory cabinets such as microscope table, fume cupboards, laboratory benches, stadium chairs, height adjustments device, base sledge, seat frames and control mechanism, arm guide and headguides.
Also excluded are; skeletal parts of furniture such as blanks, unholstered or unfinished part of metal, plastics, veneer, chair shell etc. Also excluded are Motor Vehicle seats and Seats other than garden seats or camping equipment, convertible into beds.
2. Indecent or obscene prints, painting, books, cards, engraving or any indecent or obscene articles.
3. Air Pistols.
4. All counterfeit/pirated materials or articles including Base or Counterfeit Coin of any Country.
5. Sanitary Wares of Plastics and Domestic Articles and Wares of Plastics [but excluding Baby Feeding bottles] and flushing ceinstern and waterless toos toilets.
6. Birds Eggs.
7. Refined Vegetable Oils and Fats [but excluding Linseed, Castor and Olive oils. Crude vegetable oil are however NOT banned from importation].
8. Beads composed of inflammable celluloid or other similar substances.
9. Matches made with white phosphorous.
10. All types of Foot Wears and Bags including Suitcases of leather and plastics [but excluding Safety Shoes used in oil industries, Hospitals, Firefighting and Factories, Sports Shoes, canvass shoes all Completely Knocked Down (CKD) blanks and parts]
11. Spaghetti/Noodles.
12. Used Compressors.
13. Meat, Vegetables or other provisions declared by a health officer to be unfit for human consumption.
14. Waters, including Mineral Waters and Aerated Waters containing added Sugar or Sweetening Matter or Flavoured, ice snow other non-alcoholic beverages [ but excluding energy or Health Drinks {Liquid Dietary Supplements} e.g. Power Horse, Red Ginseng etc] Beer, Stout (Bottled, Canned or Otherwise packed)
15. Implements appertaining to the reloading of cartridges.
16. Bagged Cement.
17. Manilas.
18. Pistols disguised in any form.
19. Cowries.
20. Second-hand clothing.
21. Silver or metal alloy coins not being legal tender in Nigeria.
22. Medicaments falling under those indicated below:
  • Paracetamol Tablets and Syrups
  • Cotrimoxazole Tablets Syrups
  • Metronidazole Tablets and Syrups
  • Chloroquine Tablets and Syrups
  • Haematinic Formulations; Ferrous Sulphate and Ferrous Gluconate Tablets, Folic Acid Tablets, Vitamine B Complex Tablet [except modified released formulations].
  • Multivitamin Tablets, capsules and Syrups [except special formulations].
  • Aspirin Tablets [except modified released formulation and soluble aspirin].
  • Magnesium trisilicate tablets and suspensions.
  • Piperazine tablets and Syrups
  • Levamisole Tablets and Syrups
  • Clotrimazole Cream
  • Ointments – Penecilin/Gentamycin
  • Pyrantel Pamoate tablets and Syrups
  • Intravenous Fluids [Dextrose, Normal Saline, etc.]
23. Used Motor Vehicles above fifteen (15) years from the year of manufacture.
24. Soaps and Detergents.
25. Nuclear Industrial waste and other Toxic waste.
26. Ball Point Pens.
27. Pork, Beef.
28. Rethreaded and used Pneumatic tyres but excluding used trucks tyres for rethreading of sized.
29. Corrugated Paper and Paper Boards; cartons, boxes and cases made from corrugated paper and paper boards, toilet paper, cleaning or facial tissue excluding baby diapers and incotinent pads for adult use and Exercise Books.
30. Telephone Re-charge Cards and Vouchers.
31. Textile Fabrics of all types.
  • ◦African print [Printed Fabrics] e.g. Nigeria wax, Hollandaise, English Wax, Ankara and similar Fabrics.
  • ◦Carpets and Rugs of all types.
32. Cocoa Butter, Powder and Cakes.
33. Hollow Glass Bottles of a capacity exceeding 150mls (0.15 litres) of a kind used for packaging of beverages by breweries and other beverage and drink companies.
34. Fruit Juice in Retail Packs.
35. Blank invoices.
36. Waste Pharmaceuticals.
37. Live or Dead Birds including Frozen Poultry.
38. Mosquito Repellant Coils.
39. Airmail Photographic Printing Paper.
40. Coupons for Foreign Football pools or other betting arrangements.
41. Exhausted tea or tea mixed with other substances. For the purposes of this item, "exhausted tea" means any tea which has been deprived of its proper quality, strength, or virtue by steeping, infusion, decoction or other means.
42. Materials of any description with a design which, considering the purpose for which any such material is intended to be used, is likely in - the opinion of the president to create a breach of the peace or to offend the religious views of any class of persons in Nigeria.
43. Piece goods and all other textiles including wearing apparel, hardware of all kinds' crockery and china or earthenware goods bearing inscriptions.
44. Spirits: - Other than -
  • · Alcoholic bitters, liqueurs, cordials and mixtures admitted as such in his discretion by the Comptroller-General and which are not deemed to be injurious spirits within the meaning of any enactment or law relating to liquor or liquor licensing.
  • · Brandy, i.e. a Spirit Distilled in Grape-growing countries from fermented grape juice and from no other materials and Stored in wood for a period of three years;
  • · Drugs and medicinal spirits admitted as such in his discretion by the Comptroller-General.
  • · Gin, i.e. Spirit- Produced by distillation from a mixed mash of cereal grains only saccharified by the diastase of malt and the Flavoured by redistillation with juniper berries and other vegetable ingredients and of a brand which has been notified as an approved brand by notice in the Gazette and in containers labeled with the name and address of the owner of the brand; or
  •  Produced by distillation at least three times in a pot-still from mixed mash or barley, rye and maize saccharified by diastase of malt - and then rectified by re-distillation in a potstill after the addition of juniper berries and other vegetable materials.
  • ·Methylated or denatured spirit, i.e. - Mineralized Methylated spirit mixed as follows: - To every ninety parts by volume of spirits nine and one-half parts by volume of wood naphtha and one-half of one part by volume of crude pyridine and to every 455 litres of the mixture 1.7 litres of mineral naphtha or petroleum oil and not less than 0.7 grammes by weight of powdered aniline dye (Methyl violet) and so in proportion for any quantity less than 455 litres; and Industrial Methylated spirit imported under license from the Comptroller-General and mixed as follows: - To every ninety-five parts by volume of spirits five parts by volume of wood naphtha and also one-half of one part by volume of the mixture; and spirits denatured for a particular purpose in such manner as the Comptroller-General in any special circumstance may permit;
  • · Perfumed Spirits.
  • · Rum i.e. a Spirit - Distilled direct from sugar-cane products in sugar-cane growing countries; and stored in wood for a period of three years. Spirits imported for medical or scientific purposes, subject to such conditions as the Comptroller-General may prescribe;
  • · Spirits totally unfit for use as portable spirits admitted to entry as such in the discretion by the Comptroller-General; and
  • ·  Whisky, i.e. a Spirit- Obtained by distillation from a mash or cereal grains saccharified by diastase of malt; and stored in wood for a period of three years.


*Note: The items listed above are subject to review occasionally by the government. 
  
  

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