El Salvador Planning Online Import Permitting System
The Salvadoran Central Bank (BCR) recently announced it would use an exclusively online permit system for importing food and beverage products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service said in a report posted on March 25. "The BCR announced…
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that import permit requests for food and beverage products would have to be requested online," the FAS said. "This service will be available to all food and beverage importers through the BCR’s Single-Window for Foreign Trade (Ventanilla Unica de Comercio Exterior). According to BCR staff, the implementation of this new virtual procedure will reduce the request time from the 27 days averaged in 2011 to approximately 1 minute in 2019."