Pursuant to Notification No.4186/DIMEX, dated 12 September 2018, this notification aims at improving for a more concise and prompt procedure of service in DIMEX. In addition, DIMEX has the vision to develop its work plan of import and export, border trade, trade facilitation and rule of origin in order to stimulate economic growth in Lao PDR.

Service charter of DIMEX has indicated about the time taken and time expected in 2019 for each service as follow:

No.

Services

Time taken*

Time expected in 2019

1

Import and Export License for vehicle, fuel, and diamond

1.1 Manual

1.2 Electronic system through Lao National Single Window

 

2 days

1 day

 

1 day

0.5 day

2

Certificate of Origin

2.1 Manual

2.2 Electronic system

 

4 hours

4 hours

 

1 hour

30 minutes

3

Certificate of transit goods

2 days

1 day

4

Certificate of Import for Re-export

2 days

1 day

5

Upload data to Lao PDR Trade Portal (LTP) such as news, legal documents, articles…

5 days after receiving official data

3 days

6

Reply inquiries and comments about service

5 days

3 days

* The time taken is calculated in term of the official working hours/days after receiving the completed document with all the supporting documents.

For more information:

If any difficulty of our service, please contact and share comments as follow:       

Trade Facilitation Division, Department of Import and Export

 

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