Import rules · updated 29 September 2026
Importing Brazilian sugar into Senegal: duty, permits and documents.
Senegal was the second-largest destination for Brazil’s white sugar in 2025: 375,628 tonnes. Imports are conditional. Sugar needs an import declaration for food products (the DIPA), must clear through the port of Dakar, and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce opens and closes the import window: it authorised sugar imports again from 15 July 2026, after none had been allowed since 15 December 2025. The customs duty on white sugar was 20% in the latest tariff data (2023), plus community levies and 18% VAT.
Brazil’s sugar trade with Senegal
Brazil exported 375,628 tonnes of white sugar (NCM 1701.99) to Senegal in 2025, worth 179.8 million US dollars FOB, its second-largest destination for that product.
Importing into Senegal? Send your grade, quantity and discharge port. You pay the supplier directly, never me.
Send a requirement →When imports are allowed
The government uses the import window to protect local production. Imports were stopped from 15 December 2025 so the local producer could sell its crop, and reopened on 15 July 2026, as announced by the national press agency APS. Before you commit to a shipment, check that the window is open for your arrival date.
- Sugar needs a DIPA (déclaration d’importation des produits alimentaires) and a mandatory health check.
- Sugar may only be cleared at the customs offices of the port of Dakar.
- Sugar imports were also banned for a period in 2013.
Duty and taxes
| Charge | Rate | Source and date |
|---|---|---|
| Customs duty | 20% | WITS, 2023 |
| Statistical charge | 1% | WTO Trade Policy Review, 2017 |
| ECOWAS community levy | 0.5% | WTO Trade Policy Review, 2017 |
| UEMOA solidarity levy (PCS) | 0.8% | UEMOA, 2018 |
| Shippers’ council levy (COSEC), sea imports | 0.4% of CIF | WTO Trade Policy Review, 2017 |
| VAT | 18% | WTO Trade Policy Review, 2017 |
Senegal also applies a variable import tax (TCI) to sugar when the declared customs value falls below a trigger price. The trigger value in the 2017 review is out of date; ask customs for the current one.
What to confirm before you order
- That the ministry’s import window is open, and your DIPA.
- The current TCI trigger price and levy rates.
- Labelling and any conformity certificate. We found no official statement for sugar.
Rules on this page were checked against the sources below on 29 September 2026. Duties, levies and permits change, sometimes by decree. Confirm every figure with Senegal’s customs authority before you order. See all countries.
Know your permits and your port? That is everything I need to request a current supplier response.
Send a requirement →Sources
- ComexStat (MDIC), Brazilian exports by NCM 1701.99.00 and 1701.14.00, January–December 2025, via api-comexstat.mdic.gov.br, retrieved 29 Sep 2026
- World Bank WITS / UNCTAD TRAINS, MFN tariff for HS 170199, Senegal, 2023
- WTO, Trade Policy Review: West African Economic and Monetary Union, WT/TPR/S/362, 2017, Annex on Senegal: https://www.wto.org/french/tratop_f/tpr_f/s362-07_f.pdf
- UEMOA, PCS rate maintained at 0.8%, 30 Jul 2018: https://www.uemoa.int/
- APS, sugar imports authorised from 15 July, 13 Jul 2026: https://aps.sn/le-gouvernement-va-autoriser-les-importations-de-sucre-a-partir-du-mercredi-15-juillet/
- Senegal Commerce, import procedures (updated 8 Jun 2026): https://senegalcommerce.sec.gouv.sn/ProceduresImportDetails.aspx
Checked on 29 September 2026. Rules and web pages change; check the source before you rely on a detail.