For the third time in 15 years, Venezuela is about to enter a new pre-inspection of import cargoes procedure. Current administration has issued a decree that will oblige all Venezuelan importers to ask their suppliers to request a surveying company at origin to inspect cargoes to Venezuela with a USD 5.000 value or higher. Four companies (Bureau Veritas, Cotecna, Intertek, SGS) have been selected to perform such inspections.
Valid date should start at June 9th 2003 (but this morning SGS confirmed that this changed into September 1st 2003), although there are different law interpretations on valid date, ways to handle non-inspected cargoes etc... We will keep everybody posted at due time.
We simply want to pass this information and do not accept any responsibility in this matter, as this has to be solved in any case between seller and buyer of cargoes.