All visitors require vaccination certificates against yellow fever. International Trade Ethiopia's main export commodities include cocoa beans and products, cut flowers, fruit, gold, gum incense, oil products, petroleum products and tea and coffee. Major import commodities include chemical products, consumer goods, food ingredients, edible oils and petroleum products. All transactions in foreign exchange must be carried out through authorised dealers under the control of the National Bank. Payments abroad for imports require exchange licences, obtainable upon presentation of a valid importer's licence, exchange licences are also granted in any convertible currency requested.
All imports require a licence.
There are no free trade zones in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a contracting party to the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System of tariff classification. This trading summary is provided by the International Business Centre of SCMB which provides trade finance and other export services to South African companies exporting to Ethiopia. A more comprehensive trade profile is available. The war with Eritrea seemingly something of the past, the Ethiopian government has turned its attention to the situation in Somalia.