(Business in Cameroon) - Weeks ago, the Cameroonian government (through the Ministries of Trade, Mines, Industries and Technological development as well as the Standards and Quality Agency-ANOR) placed seals on a shipment of over 7,300 tons of rebar. The construction material was imported by Chinese group CHEC for the 2 nd phase of construction works at the Kribi deep seaport, which was commissioned in the Southern region, in 2018. Based on an import restriction placed on rebar in 2016, Cameroonian authorities estimate the material was illegally imported. Indeed, on May 31, 2016, Magloire Séraphin Fouda (the secretary-general of the Prime Ministry) sent a correspondence to the Minister of Finance (MINFI) informing him that to protect local production, the Prime Minister has ordered the suspension, until further notice, of rebar imports.