LIBERIA: What’s Really Behind the Import Permit Declaration (IPDs) Quagmire LIBERIA: What’s Really Behind the Import Permit Declaration (IPDs) Quagmire Share Monrovia – Last month, Commerce and Industry Minister Marwine Diggs sent out a communication to local importers, requesting all to submit import documents for the period; October 2020 to present, for the importation of goods which include but not limited to copies of INF Forms, payment invoices, Bill of Lading, Port charges and all payments related to the clearing of your goods from the free port of Monrovia to the warehouses of businesses. The communication, in possession of FrontPageAfrica reportedly became necessary following months of concerns that there was active and illegal practices in existence involving the illicit issuance and/or manipulation of Import Permits Declaration(IPDs) by local manufacturing companies. FrontPageAfrica has however learned that a senior official at the Ministry may have signed a few IPDs without the knowledge of the minister, which prompted the brouhaha over the IPDs.