Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B6: Product identity requirement 

Date when the measure came into force

01 December 1972 

Publication where the measure is specified

The Law of Zambia; Republic of Zambia 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Food and Drugs Act 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

124.Ginger, whole or ground, shall be the washed and dried or decorticated and dried rhizome of Zingiber officinale Roscoe, and shall contain not more than 12 percentum of moisture, and, on the dry basis, not less than 11.4 per centum of cold water extractive as determined by the prescribed method, and 1.9 per centum of ash soluble in water, and may contain not more
than 1.1 per centum of calcium, calculated as calcium oxide, 8 per centum of total ash, and 2.3 per centum of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid.
125.Limed ginger or bleached ginger, whole or ground, shall be the ginger coated with calcium carbonate, and shall conform to the standards provided in regulation 126, except that it shall contain not more than 2.5 per centum of calcium, calculated as calcium oxide and not more than 12 percentum of total ash 

Reference of the measure

Part II para 124 & 125 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Ginger 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries