Moroccan Customs

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• Morocco Raises Tobacco Prices: New Cigarette and E-Liquid Costs Effective January 1
  4 January 2021, by Bladi.net

  The new retail prices of cigarettes and other tobacco products have been published in a circular from the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII), dated December 31, 2020.
  As announced last year, cigarette prices have increased on Friday, January 1, 2021. This price increase also takes into account nicotine-dosed e-liquid, shisha tobacco, rolling tobacco, and cigars.
  The price increase was decided by the pricing commission for manufactured tobacco products, which is under the (…)

• Morocco Streamlines Customs Procedures, Easing Burden on Users
  11 April 2021, by Jonas

  The new law 55-19 relating to the simplification of administrative procedures and formalities grants certain facilities to client-users, indicates a circular published by the Moroccan Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII).
  Thus, according to the new law, users of the customs administration are no longer required to present a copy of the documents and documents constituting their files, to legalize their signature and to certify the copies as true, explains the note, which (…)

• Moroccan Man Sentenced for Possessing 350 Stolen Phones at French Border
  19 May 2019, by Bladi.net

  On October 27, a resident of Dreux in France was surprised by the Moroccan customs, in possession of 350 phones of the same brand, in his trunk. The goods, as well as his car, were confiscated by the customs officers. The French justice system was seized. The investigators hoped to trace back a network of burglars, but nothing linked the Dreux resident to the burglary.
  "I have nothing to do with the theft," assures Lhassan Daoudi, a 48-year-old resident of Dreux, in the Chartres court. (…)

• Moroccan Customs Uncovers $1 Billion in Fraudulent Invoices, Recovers $300 Million in Penalties
  18 May 2019, by Kamal

  The customs services have succeeded, thanks to the use of digitization, in identifying several false declarations with a total value of 10 billion dirhams, forcing the offenders to repay three billion dirhams in penalties.
  The under-invoicing operations were detected by the Moroccan customs officers thanks to the exchange of data with other countries, as well as other elements they have. The customs agents also carry out field checks in the various regions of the country.
  Customs relies (…)

• Moroccan Resident of Spain Caught Smuggling 39,000 Euros at Ceuta Border
  19 May 2019, by Said

  A new attempt at currency trafficking at the border post of Bab Sebta, where a Moroccan residing in Spain was arrested as he was trying to cross customs to go to Europe with the sum of 39,000 euros.
  A customs source cited by 2M indicates that the customs officers discovered this sum that the man had hidden in the dashboard of his car, specifying that the countervalue is estimated at 421,000 dirhams.
  Residing in Spain, the man was handed over to the judicial police of Tetouan who opened (…)

• Morocco Simplifies Customs Process for Expatriates Entering with Vehicles
  6 June 2019, by Said

  Moroccans living abroad who were used to filling out the long green forms (D16) (with the fear that goes with it!) upon entering Morocco will not be unhappy to learn that this formality has been replaced by another, much simpler one. Although the Moroccan administration could have gone even further.
  Since the beginning of this year, Moroccans living abroad no longer fill out the green customs forms, this task now being assigned to the customs officers. Composed of three sheets, one was (…)

• Moroccan Authorities Incinerate Massive Drug Haul in Tangier
  31 December 2021, by Armel

  These illicit products were incinerated in the presence of a specialized commission composed of local and public authorities in the locality of Gzenaya.
  Specifically, 24.8 tons of cannabis resin, 444 packs of contraband cigarettes, 1.6 tons of kif stems, 1,290 grams of cocaine and 37,847 psychotropic tablets were incinerated.
  To these goods are added 106 grams of heroin, 57.5 kilograms of hookah tobacco and 12 kilograms of snuff.

• Portuguese Man Arrested at Moroccan Port with Large Cache of Firearms Bound for Guinea-Bissau
  12 June 2019, by Amine

  A sexagenarian Portuguese has just been arrested at Tanger Med with an impressive quantity of firearms and ammunition. This operation was carried out following a routine search.
  Lots of weapons had been hidden in this Portuguese’s vehicle (a truck) which, it seems, was heading to Guinea-Bissau.
  Hespress writes: "According to consistent sources, the customs officers discovered in the truck of the Portuguese national 5 hunting rifles, 1131 live ammunition cartridges, and nearly 640 (…)

• Morocco Modernizes Customs with New Officer Uniforms
  18 February 2022, by Ginette
• Morocco Raises Tobacco Prices: Cigarettes and Cigars See Increases from April 1
  5 April 2022, by Ginette

  Since April 1, the retail price of certain tobacco brands has increased in Morocco, according to a circular dated March 31 from the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII).
  According to the ADII, the list of prices for new approved brands of manufactured tobacco (cigars, cigarillos, heated tobacco) is detailed in a 4-page document.
  This document also includes the list of price increases for certain already approved brands. In addition to the "Gauloises fusion" pack of (…)