Over the last few months, local and foreign owned businesses have complained over the refusal of the Ministry of Commerce to issue IPD for the importation of frozen foods. While the ship awaits at the port for the IPD is prepared, the importer is likely to incur more demurrages. Demurrage refers to the charges that the charterer pays to the ship owner for its delayed operations of loading/unloading. The goal of the President was exempt all commercial importers of goods into Liberia from seeking Import Permit Declaration (IPD). The Executive Order stated, “All Commercial Importers of goods into Liberia are exempted from seeking Import Permits and filling Import Permit Declarations.
