Every week, scientific offices, importers and distributors in Baghdad, Erbil and Basra ask us for medicines, supplements and devices they want to register and stock. If you manufacture in Europe, Turkey or India and want to enter Iraq, share your export catalogue, minimum order quantities and registration documents: we match them to live enquiries and coordinate the Iraqi MoH and KMCA files. No exclusivity, no upfront cost.
Our team in Baghdad and Erbil works with the scientific offices, importers and pharmacy and hospital distributors that hold the licences to register and sell in Iraq. Their enquiries name the molecules, supplement categories and devices they want to add to their portfolios. We already supply the same buyers with private-label supplements and medicines from more than ten GMP plants in Germany, Italy and Spain; 799 of those formulations come from plants registered with the MoH, the KMCA or both. The programme extends a demand pipeline that exists today rather than asking you to fund a market entry on speculation.
An export catalogue with dosage forms, pack sizes and minimum order quantities, the GMP status of the plant and a note on which documents you can issue: Free Sale Certificate, Certificate of a Pharmaceutical Product, Certificate of Analysis and stability data. Nothing else is needed to join. There is no listing fee, no retainer and no exclusivity clause; we are paid on the demand side, through our arrangement with the Iraqi buyer. Your plant's name stays confidential until an enquiry is qualified and you agree to be introduced, and a mutual confidentiality agreement is available on request.
A foreign manufacturer does not file directly in Iraq: the applicant is a scientific office, also called a scientific bureau, which must be owned or managed by a pharmacist and hold a letter from the pharmacists' syndicate. Either the importer's own scientific office registers the product in its name and holds it exclusively, or a scientific office acts as your agent and registers it in your name, so that distribution stays under your control. We coordinate the file in both cases; the decision on approval rests with the authority.
Published guidance provides a fast track for products made under GMP recognised by a reference agency such as the EMA, the FDA or the WHO, which covers most European plants and those Turkish and Indian sites that hold such certification. The file needs the plant's GMP certificate, a CPP for medicines or a Free Sale Certificate for supplements, a Certificate of Analysis, specifications and stability data, and Arabic labelling and leaflet artwork, legalised through the Chamber of Commerce and the Iraqi embassy in the country of origin; each shipment then needs its own import licence, issued to the importer. The authority's current checklist applies: we prepare and coordinate, we do not give legal advice or promise approval.
Kimadia, the state company that procures medicines and medical supplies for public hospitals, buys through tenders that call for a CPP, GMP and Free Sale Certificates, a manufacturer affidavit, a price certificate, samples, stability data and Arabic artwork, submitted through a local agent. The private market, meaning pharmacies, private hospitals and wholesalers supplied by scientific offices and importers, buys registered products on commercial terms. The enquiries we pass on come from the private market; a product registered there can be offered in Kimadia tenders later through its scientific office, subject to the tender conditions.
The Kurdistan Medicine Control Agency in Erbil runs its own registration, separate from Baghdad. Its file asks for a manufacturer authorisation letter certified by the Chamber of Commerce and the Iraqi embassy, a certified GMP certificate and the Kurdistan syndicate card of the applicant pharmacist. A Baghdad registration does not clear a product for the region, and the reverse also holds: in our catalogue 354 formulations come from plants holding both registrations, 236 the Iraqi MoH only and 209 the KMCA only. Erbil importers often ask for the KMCA file first, with Baghdad following; we coordinate either sequence.
A product list with dosage forms, pack sizes and minimum order quantities, the plant's GMP certificate and the authority that issued it, and the certificates you can provide. Your prices stay yours to quote, EXW, and a mutual confidentiality agreement is signed first if you prefer.
We compare your list with the enquiries arriving from Iraqi importers and present the fit to them without naming your plant. When both sides confirm interest, we introduce you and agree who will hold the registration.
We coordinate the dossier with your regulatory team: CPP or Free Sale Certificate, GMP certificate, Certificate of Analysis, stability data and Arabic artwork, legalised and submitted by a pharmacist-owned scientific office to the Iraqi MoH and, as a separate file, to the KMCA. Approval rests with the authority.
The importer obtains the import licence for the shipment; you ship EXW with the batch Certificate of Analysis, certificate of origin and legalised commercial documents. Reorders, renewals and the Kurdistan file follow on the same dossier.
A scientific bureau, or scientific office, is the licensed local representative that files product registrations with the Iraqi MoH, holds them, obtains the import licence for each shipment and answers the authority on the manufacturer's behalf. It must be owned or managed by a pharmacist and hold a letter from the pharmacists' syndicate; a foreign manufacturer cannot file on its own. The importers who send us enquiries either own such an office or work with one.
Under current guidance, yes. The Iraqi MoH provides an abbreviated route for products manufactured under GMP recognised by a reference agency such as the EMA, the FDA or the WHO, which covers most European plants and those Turkish and Indian sites that hold such certification. It shortens the review, not the document list: the CPP or Free Sale Certificate, GMP certificate, stability data and Arabic artwork are still required, and the authority sets the final requirements.
No. There is no listing fee, no retainer and no exclusivity clause; you keep your own pricing, EXW, and any distributors you already have in Iraq. We are paid on the demand side through our arrangement with the Iraqi buyer. The cost of legalising certificates and preparing a registration file sits with the party that will hold the registration, usually the Iraqi importer, and is stated in writing before anything is filed.
Both are common. Registration in the importer's name means the importer invests in the file and holds the product exclusively for as long as it is renewed, which is what most scientific offices ask for when they commit to stock. Registration in your name, through a scientific office acting as your agent, keeps the file under your control and lets you change distributors later, in exchange for funding the file yourself. We coordinate either route and tell you which one the enquiring importer expects.
Not directly. Kimadia buys for the public sector through tenders that call for a CPP, GMP and Free Sale Certificates, a manufacturer affidavit, a price certificate, samples, stability data and Arabic artwork, submitted by a local agent. The enquiries we pass on come from the private market. Once a product is registered, its scientific office can offer it in Kimadia tenders as a second channel, subject to the tender conditions.
Yes. The KMCA in Erbil keeps its own file: a manufacturer authorisation letter certified by the Chamber of Commerce and the Iraqi embassy, a certified GMP certificate and the Kurdistan syndicate card of the applicant pharmacist. A Baghdad registration does not clear the product for the region and vice versa; in our catalogue 209 formulations come from plants with KMCA registration only. Many partners open Kurdistan as a second market once the first Baghdad shipment has moved.
Send us your export catalogue, the minimum order quantities and the registration documents you already hold for other markets. We reply with the Iraqi inquiries that match your range, the registration route and the next concrete step. No upfront fee.