Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products 

Date when the measure came into force

02 January 2012 

Publication where the measure is specified

The Republic Of Kenya, Laws of Kenya, explosives Act Chapter 115 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Explosives Act 13 of 1929 revised edition 2012 

Country/Region applying the measure

Kenya 

Coded list of objectives

G: Protection of national security 

Description of the measure

10. Prohibition of importation and exportation of explosives without permit. No person shall import or export, or cause to be imported or exported, any explosive, unless he has obtained a permit issued, in the case of blasting materials, under the authority of an inspector, or, in the case of other explosives, by any person authorized by the Commissioner to issue such a permit.
[Act No. 30 of 1953, s. 3.] 

Reference of the measure

Para 10 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Explosives (does not include amunitions):
(a) gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting
powders, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires and every other substance, whether similar to those herein mentioned or not, which is used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect;
(b) any fuse, rocket, detonator or cartridge, and every adaptation 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.