The destination inspection scheme involves the examination of goods and processing of declarations covering the said goods at the various destination points whether by sea, land or air. The ITS in the provision of these services helps to ensure legitimate trade is facilitated through compliance in the presentation of correct declarations and the resultant speedy clearance of goods to help the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) realize the necessary revenues.

The destination-inspection procedure entails…

  • The risk level from the valuation process serves as input to the destination-inspection process.
  • Physical examination would be conducted on high risk consignment after the scanning.
  • Documentary checks would be carried out on medium risk consignment after scanning.
  • Low risk consignments would be released immediately after scanning except a suspect in made on the image.

ITS SL Ltd. will issue an import certificate to the importer and transmit copies