As per beginning of May 2016, all trucks carrying shipments coming through the KRG Region with final destinations Central or/and Southern Iraq are obliged to stop at Abu Ghuraib Customs in Baghdad to be controlled and checked before they reach their final destinations for offloading.

Reason is that as from the 1^st of January 2016, the import customs duties have changed from a flat rate of 5% to various applicable rates based on the commodity of the goods imported.

Iraqi Central Customs, more strictly, started enforcing the new tariff and obliging the importers to pay the difference between the duties paid in the KRG Region and the new tariff.

For the time being, the new tariff is only applied for commercial imports.

Diplomatic goods and levy exempted shipments are excluded of this procedure.

** RAMADAN:         7^th of June – 6^th of July 2016

**COMING HOLIDAYS: 

– EID ELFITR:      6^TH July – 10^th of July

– REPUBLIC DAY: 14^TH of July