The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) will return to ports and resume cargo clearance duties.
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) will return to Nigerian ports for the first time in over 10 years. SON Director-General, Farouk Salim, reported on the return after the Nigeria Customs Service directed its Area Controllers to include SON officials in joint inspection teams at the port.
DG Salim stated, “We are supposed to ensure that the borders and the ports are monitored properly, and in doing this we protect the country from substandard goods. One of such ways is to make sure that the employees of SON are in the port of entries in the country, especially the Lagos port where majority of goods comes into this country.”
Cotecna is an Independent Accreditation Firms (IAF’s) appointed by SON to test, inspect and issue a Certificate of Conformity for regulated products exported to Nigeria. Cotecna can issue the Product Certificates (PC, used to open the Form M) as well as the SONCAP Certificate that is used to generate the PAAR for the clearance of goods at any Nigerian Port.
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