Authorisations, cross border trade and product compliance
Earning the right to operate, bringing your equipment in and selling a compliant product. UpGrowth builds your approval files, opens your import and export codes, runs customs clearance with a licensed customs broker, prepares the transfer files for payments abroad and reviews your distribution agreements before you sign.
- Clearance run with a licensed customs broker
- Bank supporting documents prepared in advance
- A named contact from start to finish
What UpGrowth does
Eight service families, from sector approvals to representation and distribution.
Sector approvals
- Identifying the regime that applies to your activity
- Import, distribution, transport, training and other regulated activities
- Building and filing the application with the competent authority
- Preparing the site inspection where one is required
Import activity
- Opening or adding the import code at the trade register
- Conditions of exercise, means and documents required
- Bank domiciliation of import contracts
- Day to day relationship with the domiciling bank
Customs and regimes
- Clearance and transit, run with a licensed customs broker
- Temporary admission of site equipment and machinery
- Suspensive regimes according to the destination of the goods
- Tariff classification, duties and taxes payable
Product approval
- Identifying the regime that actually applies to your product
- Conformity certificate and the tests required before market entry
- Running the file with the competent body
- Bringing labelling and technical documentation into compliance
Standards and documentation
- Technical documentation required at import
- Certificates of origin and accompanying documents
- Traceability, material certificates and datasheets
- Sworn translation of the supplier documents
Foreign exchange and transfers
- Compliance with the foreign exchange regulations
- Building the transfer files for payments abroad
- Supporting documents required by the bank, prepared in advance
- Follow up to the actual execution of the transfer
Export
- Adding the export code and the conditions of exercise
- Domiciliation of export contracts
- Documents required on exit and repatriation of proceeds
- Preparing the first files towards a neighbouring market
Representation and distribution
- Distribution and commercial agency agreements
- Representation of foreign brands on the Algerian market
- After sales and spare parts obligations
- Review of the clauses before you sign
What you receive
- A complete administrative file, current and ready to file
- The receipts and certificates for every filing made
- The calendar of your coming deadlines
How we work
This is how we work.
- 1
You describe the need, we scope the perimeter
- 2
We tell you what is feasible and what is not
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The perimeter is written down before work starts
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A named contact follows your file end to end
- 5
You are warned before each deadline, not after
Who this service is for
- Manufacturers, importers and distributors
- Suppliers and equipment makers delivering into Algeria
- Companies testing the market before they commit
- Contractors and subcontractors on industrial projects
Where to start, depending on your situation
You supply without being established
- For import, customs and product approval: this is the service described on this page.
- To arbitrate between a liaison office and a branch: see the liaison office, branch or subsidiary page.
- For your sales collateral in three languages: see the web, software and visibility services.
Related pages
- Regulated activity approvalReading the CNRC activity code, identifying the competent authority, building and filing the file.
- Product homologationIdentifying the approval regime that applies to the product, then building and following the file.
- Import and export guideCustoms, bank domiciliation and the import and export bodies.
- Algerian customsClearance, DGD, SIGAD, documents and the ten-digit tariff.
- Algerian customs tariffThe 21 sections and 96 chapters, with the downloadable CSV.
- Business bank accountOpening the account, including the CEDAC account for foreign capital.
- Liaison office, branch or subsidiaryComparing the three legal presences of a foreign company in Algeria.
International partners under a signed MoU
Frequently asked questions
What does this service cover?
Eight service families: sector approvals, import activity, customs and regimes, product approval, standards and documentation, foreign exchange and transfers, export, and representation and distribution. The detail is set out above on this page.
Can you open my import code and follow the banking relationship?
The service covers opening or adding the import code at the trade register, the conditions of exercise, the means and documents required, the bank domiciliation of import contracts and the day to day relationship with the domiciling bank.
Who runs customs clearance?
Clearance and transit are run with a licensed customs broker. The service also covers the temporary admission of site equipment and machinery, the suspensive regimes according to the destination of the goods, tariff classification, and the duties and taxes payable.
Can you help with an activity approval or a product approval?
Yes. For an approval: identifying the regime that applies to your activity, building and filing the application with the competent authority, and preparing the site inspection where one is required. For a product: identifying the regime that actually applies, the conformity certificate and the tests required before market entry, running the file with the competent body, and bringing labelling and technical documentation into compliance. Each has its own dedicated page.
Can you prepare a transfer of funds abroad?
The service covers compliance with the foreign exchange regulations, building the transfer files for payments abroad, the supporting documents required by the bank prepared in advance, and follow up to the actual execution of the transfer.
What does the service include for export?
Adding the export code and the conditions of exercise, domiciliation of export contracts, the documents required on exit and repatriation of proceeds, and preparing the first files towards a neighbouring market.
Can you review a distribution or agency agreement?
Yes: distribution and commercial agency agreements, representation of foreign brands on the Algerian market, after sales and spare parts obligations, and review of the clauses before you sign.
What does the service cost, and how does it start?
No price is published here. You describe the need, we scope the perimeter and write it down before work starts: the quote is tailored after a short exchange. You can write to us on WhatsApp, by e-mail or through the form.
Tell us what you want to launch
Describe your situation in a few lines. We answer by telling you which services apply to your case, in what order to engage them, and what we need from your side to start. No price is published here: the quote is tailored after a short exchange.
Offices in Birkhadem, Algiers. Sunday to Thursday.
