24. Exporters should be aware that once goods have been inspected and CCI issued, any variation between goods presented for loading and those confirmed by the CCI will render the Exporter liable to penalties in accordance with the Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

a. For the release of Agricultural Commodities for Export from Registered Produce Warehouse/Port of Export, the following conditions must be met:

• Evidence of quality inspection; and
• Certificate by the Federal Produce Inspection Service (FPIS) or by relevant government agency.
  

25. No loading of any export cargo into sea-going vessels or aircraft shall be authorized without the issuance of a "Clean Certificate of Inspection" (CCI) by Inspection Agent(s).

26. Repatriation of Export Proceeds:

• Within 90 days from the date of export, all exporters (whether oil, gas or non-oil) shall ensure that the export proceeds are repatriated and credited to their domiciliary account opened with a bank in Nigeria.
• It is the responsibility of the Central Bank of Nigeria to monitor the repatriation of all export proceeds.

27. Letter of Credit (LC), bill of collection, advance payment and/or other approved international modes of payment shall be accepted for all exports from Nigeria,

28. The Exporter shall submit the Single Goods Declaration From to the Nigeria Customs Service without which no exportation shall take place.

29. The Nigeria Customs Service shall submit to the Director, Trade and Exchange Department, Central bank of Nigeria monthly, shipment copies (Fourth copy) of the NXP Form to cover that period's export transaction.

30. The Federal Ministry of Transport shall issue circular letters to shipping companies/carriers not to carry Non-CCI exports which by regulation should be accompanied by the document. Defaulting shippers/carriers shall be duly sanctioned.

31. The Inspection Agents shall submit monthly, quarterly and annual statistical returns on the export transactions to the Federal Ministry of Finance, Central Bank of Nigeria, Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Bureau of Statistics, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Nigeria Customs Service.

32. For the Pre-shipment Inspection of Oil and Gas Exports, the modalities of operations shall be as follows:
a. Quality Inspection

• The Terminal Operator shall inform the Inspection Agents of all scheduled lifting and shall also provide the inspector with all relevant details relating to vessel(s) nomination;
• The Inspection Agents shall participate in the entire fiscalisation and defiscalisation processes at the export terminals (Land based, Floating Production Storage and Offtake (FPSSO) and Floating Storage and Offtake (FSO), as members of the team charged with those responsibilities at the terminals.
  

b. Quantity Inspection

• The Pre-shipment Inspection Agent (PIA) shall generate and compute own data independently, as other members of the fiscalisation and defiscalisation team, using approved standards, guidelines and procedures.
• All parties that participate in the fiscalisation and defiscalisation processes shall reconcile their independently generated data with the Terminal Operator and the DPR prior to certification (Certificate of Quantity).
• The fiscalisation/defiscalisation team shall include the representatives of the Terminal Operator, PIA, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Weights and Measures Department Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry), DPR and independent cargo surveyors appointed by the buyer.

• Personal effects
• Used motor vehicles
• Perishables i.e. day old chicks, human eyes, human remains, vaccines, yeast.
• Periodicals / magazines
• Object of art
• Explosives
• Pyrotechnic products
• Arms
• Ammunition
• Weapons
• Implements of war
• Live animals
• Household and other non-commercial products including: Gifts and personal effects, trade samples/printed business matter, machineries and equipment for repairs abroad, machinery for the execution of specific contract, re-exports, Return of empty containers
• Transshipments
• Supplies to Diplomatic/Consular Missions and supplies to UNO for their own needs.

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