◆ For national food, drug and standards authorities

Four African regulators publish their register. The companies you licensed are invisible to the buyer.

A European exporter looking for a partner in your market has no way to see which companies hold a registration with you. So they deal with whoever answers first — registered or not. Where an authority publishes its register we read it, name that authority on every record and link back to its own publication. Where it does not, we would like to talk about that, and this page is mostly written for you.

4 of 54: registers we can read
3,050: licensed companies made findable
$53.53B: of imports with no visible register

Registers published4 / 54

4 published · 50 without a public register

Largest markets, no register

Egypt$14.87B
Morocco$8.22B
South Africa$4.58B
Kenya$3.37B
Côte d'Ivoire$2.92B
Tunisia$2.77B

6 of 50 unlisted markets, by annual import value.

◆ Already represented

The four that publish, and how we cite them

These four authorities publish their register themselves, and we read it as published. Each one is named, dated and linked back on every record drawn from it, and any of them can have a record corrected or withdrawn by writing to us.

Ghana

FDA Ghana — Food and Drugs Authority

Retrieved 2026-09-04 · named and linked back to the authority on every record

Nigeria

NAFDAC — National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control

Retrieved 2026-09-04 · named and linked back to the authority on every record

Rwanda

Rwanda FDA — Food and Drugs Authority

Retrieved 2026-09-04 · named and linked back to the authority on every record

Tanzania

TBS — Tanzania Bureau of Standards

Retrieved 2026-09-04 · named and linked back to the authority on every record

◆ What inclusion means

What it gives you

Your institution named on every record: Each company we publish from your register carries your name, a link to your own publication, and the date we retrieved it. A foreign supplier researching your market sees who licensed the company before they see anything else.
Trade is channelled to licensed operators: European exporters looking for a partner are pointed at companies that hold a current registration with you, rather than at whoever answered first at a trade fair. Registration becomes the route into your market.
A commercial reason to register properly: Companies that registered are findable by foreign suppliers. Companies that did not, are not. That is a visible incentive to comply, at no cost to your administration.
You decide what appears, and what comes down: Where a register is public, everything we publish traces back to that publication. Where an authority sends us data instead, we publish only what it permits. Either way, tell us a record is wrong, out of date or should be withdrawn, and we correct it and note when we did.
Your own register back, cleaned: De-duplicated, expired entries listed, products classified, importers separated from local manufacturers. We send it back at no cost and with no conditions, on whatever cadence suits you.

Your register already exists. We make it usable, and we say whose it is.

Attribution and a link back to your own publication on every record

◆ What we ask for

Two ways in, and you pick

If your register is already published we are reading it, and would rather you knew. Two things would make it better for everyone: a bulk export or a notice when it is republished, and a named contact for when its format changes. If it is not published, you can publish it yourselves and we will read it like the others, or send us an export directly and we will treat it on whatever terms you set. These are the fields we use either way.

The register

—Company name and address of the registrant
—Contact details of the registrant, where the register carries them
—Product name and category
—Country of manufacture
—Registration number and expiry date

And separately, if your administration licenses it

Where customs declaration data is licensed commercially, we would like your terms for the food and drink chapters. We would pay for a licence rather than work around its absence, and we would attribute it the same way.

◆ Still missing

The ten largest markets we cannot yet show

Annual food and drink imports, UN Comtrade. None of these has a register we can read yet.

Egypt$14.87B

Morocco$8.22B

South Africa$4.58B

Kenya$3.37B

Côte d'Ivoire$2.92B

Tunisia$2.77B

Ethiopia$2.32B

Senegal$2.17B

Djibouti$2.01B

Mozambique$1.38B

Write to tim@importregistryafrica.com. Import Registry Africa is a trading name of Tradyon VOF, in the Netherlands. We are not affiliated with any authority and do not act on behalf of one — every register we use today is published by the authority itself and is free to access at source.

This page as a two-page note to keep or forward: English (PDF) · français (PDF). Generated from the database, dated on the page.