1.Road Limitation

Container height not exceed 5 M. 

(As per Iraq ministry regulation weight should be 30 MT)

2. Terminal Limitation

Max Cargo weight which can be handled by terminal is 40MT  

3. Transshipment Restrictions 

All restrictions valid for Umm Qasr discharge is valid for Trans-shipment cargo as well  except vehicles should be de-stuffed exclusively inside the port.

4. Cargo Weight Limitations 

Discharge equipment’s needs to be arranged by receiver himself in case required equipment’s not available with IPA authority.

Cargo weight Limitations are : 20’ not more than 24 MT and 40’ not more than 30MT

5. Cargo Restrictions:

          ITEMS

Goods may not be imported from Israel

Alcohol, materials for making alcoholic beverages(hops, malts extracts, wine kits)

Arms and ammunitions

Unlicensed drugs and medicines

Explosives        

Pornographic materials

Politically subversive materials

Pork products

Vehicles below model year 2016

All kind of agriculture machinery, ambulances, construction equipment’s below year 2011

Danish meat products

Fireworks

Marble (Kid games) and toy guns

All kinds of chewing gum products

Milk products from China

Used buses with 20 seats below model year 2013

Used trucks heads model year below 2013

Body of used vehicles

Used clothes

Frozen poultry and live

Ornamental birds, birds of prey 
Table  and hatching eggs
Bird’s Plumage

 All materials that go into poultry or their products in industry.

• ORIGINS

Bangladesh

Butan

Cambodia

China

Hong Kong

Myanmar

Egypt

Vietnam

Japan

South Africa

Indonesia

N. Korea

S. Korea

Nepal

Sri lanka

Mexico

India

Germany

Holland

Libya

USA/California

6. Dangerous Cargo Restrictions

• Subject to approval

Import class of 1 – 9 is allowed subject to direct delivery.

IMCO stickers should be affixed on all four sides of the cntr’s

USD 7.00 per ton fine by Iraq port authority apply in case of noncompliance.

7.Transit Cargo Restrictions

• NIL , except vehicles should be de-stuffed exclusively inside the port.

8. Customs Requirements

•             B/L , cargo manifest , commercial invoice , packing list , certificate of origin endorsed from Iraqi embassy at origin country and levy exemption incase cargo is duty exempted cargo.

•          Declaration issued by Central Organization for Standardization And Quality Control dated 20/06/2011 (8 sets of cargo manifest to be kept onboard for authorities inspection)

The Pre-Importation Inspection, Testing, and Certification of Goods going into Iraq is embodied in accordance with the Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (COSQC) law No. 54 of 1979 (article 3/Clause 8). COSQC has put in place a Pre-Import Inspection, Testing and Certification Scheme. The scheme requires all imported products whose standard specifications were declared compulsory under the provisions of COSQC to be inspected for conformity to the relevant Iraqi Standard by COSQC before release onto the Iraqi market by the following approved companies. 1.Cotecna , 2. TUV Rhineland. and 3. Bureau Veritas are authorised to test the imported goods into Iraq, Therefore, COSQC calls all the traders and importers to commitment of obtaining conformity certificates for the imported goods into Iraq