Rwanda

Official links

Compliance Requirements

Rwanda National Trade Portal provides information on import and export requirements

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Customs Formalities

Rwanda Revenue Authority Customs Services

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Authorisation & Permits

Rwanda Development Board (RDB)

https://rdb.rw/

Packaging & Labelling Requirements

Rwanda Standards Board (RSB)

Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (Rwanda FDA)

https://www.rsb.gov.rw/ https://www.rwandafda.gov.rw/

HACCP/SPS Requirements

Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (Rwanda FDA)

Rwanda Inspectorate, Competition and Consumer Protection Authority (RICA)

https://www.rwandafda.gov.rw/ https://www.rica.gov.rw/about-us

Tax Information

Rwanda Revenue Authority

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Trade Agreements

Ministry of Trade and Industry

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Trade Finance Providers

Bank of Kigali

I&M Bank Rwanda

BPR Bank Rwanda

Access Bank Rwanda

Equity Bank Rwanda

GTBank Rwanda

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Trade Promotion Agency

National Agricultural Export Development Board
Rwanda Development Board (RDB)

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Tariffs

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Optical, medical & precision instruments; clocks; musical instruments

209 tariff lines

Optical, medical & precision instruments; clocks; musical instruments
HS code	Product	MFN	COMESA-FTA	EAC
9011.90.00	Parts and accessories	0%	0%	0%
9012.10.00	Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus	0%	0%	0%
9012.90.00	Parts and accessories	0%	0%	0%
9013.10.00	Telescopic sights for fitting to arms; periscopes; telescopes designed to form parts of machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of this Chapter or Section XVI	0%	0%	0%
9013.20.00	Lasers, other than laser diodes	0%	0%	0%
9013.80.00	Other devices, appliances and instruments	0%	0%	0%
9013.90.00	Parts and accessories	0%	0%	0%
9014.10.00	Direction finding compasses	0%	0%	0%
9014.20.00	Instruments and appliances for aeronautical or space navigation (other than compasses)	0%	0%	0%
9014.80.00	Other instruments and appliances	0%	0%	0%
9014.90.00	Parts and accessories	0%	0%	0%
9015.10.00	Rangefinders	0%	0%	0%
9015.20.00	Theodolites and tachymeters (tacheometers)	0%	0%	0%
9015.30.00	Levels	0%	0%	0%
9015.40.00	Photogrammetrical surveying instruments and appliances	0%	0%	0%
9015.80.00	Other instruments and appliances	0%	0%	0%
9015.90.00	Parts and accessories	0%	0%	0%
9016.00.00	Balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better, with or without weights	0%	0%	0%
9017.10.00	Drafting tables and machines, whether or not automatic	0%	0%	0%
9017.20.00	Other drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments	0%	0%	0%

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HS 9017.10.00

Drafting tables and machines, whether or not automatic

Section XVIII · Optical, medical & precision instruments; clocks; musical instruments › Ch 90 Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof › 90.17 Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter

Applied duty rates

0% MFN applied rate
0% COMESA-FTA preferential rate
0% EAC preferential rate

Exports | US$ thousand

0 0.5 1

2020 2020 $0 To the world – Within the Commonwealth

2021 2021 $0 To the world – Within the Commonwealth

2022 2022 $0 To the world – Within the Commonwealth

2023 2023 $0 To the world – Within the Commonwealth

2024 2024 $0 To the world – Within the Commonwealth

$1 2025 2025 $1 To the world – Within the Commonwealth

To the world
Within the Commonwealth

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Year	To the world	Within the Commonwealth
2020	$0	–
2021	$0	–
2022	$0	–
2023	$0	–
2024	$0	–
2025	$1	–

Imports | US$ thousand

0 5 10 15

2020 2020 $0 From the world $0 Within the Commonwealth

2021 2021 $0 From the world $0 Within the Commonwealth

2022 2022 $1 From the world $0 Within the Commonwealth

2023 2023 $1 From the world $0 Within the Commonwealth

2024 2024 $12 From the world $0 Within the Commonwealth

$3 2025 2025 $3 From the world $2 Within the Commonwealth

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Within the Commonwealth

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Year	From the world	Within the Commonwealth
2020	$0	$0
2021	$0	$0
2022	$1	$0
2023	$1	$0
2024	$12	$0
2025	$3	$2

Export and Import Requirements

Compliance Requirements

Rwanda Trade Information provides trade information on export, import, and transit procedures, customs services, tariffs and standards.

https://rwandatrade.rw/

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