Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B7: Product quality, safety or performance requirements 

Date when the measure came into force

01 January 2000 

Publication where the measure is specified

Government Notice 173 of 1999 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Food Regulations 1999 

Country/Region applying the measure

Mauritius 

The rationale of the measure

No specific objective stated 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

183(2) No person shall import, manufacture, process, pack, store, offer for sale or sell a cereal-based food for an infant or a child which does not include the nutrients specified in the First column of the Fifty-Fourth Schedule and at the levels specified in the Second and Third column of the Schedule. 

Reference of the measure

Sub-article 183(2) 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Cereal-based food for an infant or a child 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world