Non-Tariff Barriers

Complaint

Complaint number

NTB-000-802  

NTB Type

2.6. Additional taxes and other charges  

Complaint

CORI Ltd visited Zimbabwe last year to explore their local market to check if there is potential for their products (cooking oil). CORI Ltd discovered that they could not export cooking oil into Zimbabwe as the government in Zimbabwe has instituted Statutory Instrument (S.I 64) that banned imports of a variety of products (cooking oil is one of them).

Zimbabwe also has 40% (or $0.50/litre) duty on cooking oil imports  

Status note

During the national workshop to launch the SSMS tool for Zimbabwe and training for NMC, Zimbabwe reported that the consolidated SI 122 removed the requirement for import and export licences on some products including cooking oil.  

Progress update note

On 3rd April 2018, Zimbabwe Focal Point reported that SI 64 of 2016 has been consolidated with other SIs through SI 122 of 2017 which was gazetted on 22 September 2017. The consolidated SI removed the requirement for import and export licences on some products. The new requirements of SI 122 of 2017 will be recorded in the Non Tariff Measures database for Zimbabwe  

Policy or regulatory NTB

No 

Location

Zimbabwe: Ministry of Industry & Commerce Zimbabwe (Government institution)  

Reporting Country or Region

Malawi  

Country specific trade issue

No  

Date of incident

2018-02-28  

Status

Resolved  

Date of resolution

2019-10-12  

Product Description

Cooking oil

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Total value

0  

Date reported

2018-03-26 16:43  

Modified

2019-10-15 19:28