Where do you check a Haitian business record?
Start with the Ministry's registration and verification services, then match the returned record to the legal customer.
By Matthew Lee
Haiti's Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) (opens in a new tab) lists business-registration and verification services, including a registration request (opens in a new tab) and a prior-name search (opens in a new tab). Those services do not mean every company record is a publicly downloadable extract. Confirm which document the Ministry can provide for the entity and question at hand.
Identify the registered business
Request the exact French or Creole legal name, registration reference, entity form and any document already supplied. Compare the Ministry record or certificate with the name on the agreement. A trade name or proposed name is not automatically evidence that the contracting legal entity exists or is currently registered.
For example, an importer may provide an invoice bearing a brand and a registration paper naming a different company. Match the paper's reference and date to the company in the contract, then ask for evidence of the relationship between the brand and legal entity. Keep copies with source and retrieval dates.
Ownership and authority are separate checks
Read the actual document to see which people and dates it covers. If it does not show current holders or a signer's powers, request the current company-held ownership record and an appropriate mandate. Do not infer a complete beneficial-owner chain from a name-search result.
Fill Easy does not currently list a Haiti-specific product in its country document catalogue. Use the Ministry's official route first; contact Fill Easy to confirm whether a particular record can be supported before ordering.