Désormais domicilié auprès d’une seule banque

Now domiciled with a single bank

Provided import program

New measures for import operations. The Professional Association of Banks and Financial Establishments (ABEF) has just issued a new note about the provisional import program for the second half of the year 2025, now required for the banking domiciliation of import operations. The forecast program, established for the own needs of operators, whether it be operation or equipment, can no longer be split between several financial establishments. According to the ABEF note addressed to banks on Tuesday, August 12, the provisional import program must be domiciled with a single bank. Importers, who used to distribute their operations on several banks for various reasons, will now have to choose only one.
Through this new note of the ABEF shared on social networks, it is specified that large companies can, if necessary, domicil their operations with several banks, provided that they inform the services of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Promotion of Exports. It is also indicated that the banks, continued the ABEF, are required to declare the forecast programs domiciled at their levels, at the end of each month, at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Promotion of Exports.
“Economic operators remain legally responsible, the authenticity of the forecast program and domiciliation at a single bank,” said the same source.
This measure requiring economic operators to present a forecast import program for the domiciliation of their import operations in the context of operation and/or equipment, was established on July 9, with retroactive effect on July 1. The provisional import program must be targeted by the Ministry of Foreign Trade, which had set on July 31 as the latest period to be aimed at this document by its services. Two weeks later, on the 24th of the same month, the department of Kamel Rezig announced that this period was extended until August 10, 2025, in response to the numerous requests for the extension of deadlines made by economic operators.
Five days later, in the note sent on July 29 to the banks, the ABEF informed that some operators could not be targeted at the provisional import program by their concerned sectors. Investing banks to accept the provisional import program, only the visa of the services of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Promotion of Exports, in the Banking Domiciliation.
On July 31, when the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, chaired a working session having gathered all the managers of the sectors concerned by the import and export operations, after the new rule of presentation of the provisional import program led to the blocking of many goods in the country’s ports, the general customs directorate announced the license to be blocked for the lack of forecast program. import. The DGD has asked its services to authorize customs clearance and removal from the legal and regulatory conditions of goods blocked for lack of production of the provisional program referred to by the ministerial departments concerned.
Rabah Mokhtari