Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

P13: Production and post-production requirements to export 

Date when the measure came into force

23 November 1990 

Publication where the measure is specified

The Republic Of Kenya, Laws of Kenya,Export Processing Zones CAP. 517 [Rev. 2012] 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Export processing Zone Act 1990 

Country/Region applying the measure

Kenya 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

19. Licences
(1) No person shall carry on business as an export processing zone developer, export processing zone operator or export processing zone enterprise or hold himself out as providing or maintaining activities or facilities within an export processing zone enterprise unless he has been licensed as an export processing zone developer or an export processing zone operator or an export processing zone enterprise, as the case may be.
(2) The Authority may, on receiving application in the prescribed form, issue a licence to any person to carry on business as an export processing zone developer, or an export processing zone operator or an export processing zone enterprise and every licence issued under this subsection shall be in the prescribed form. (2A) The Authority shall, before issuing a licence allowing commercial activities, consult with the Commercial-General of the Kenya Revenue Authority.
(3) The Authority shall give notice to the Kenya Revenue Authority of every Export Processing Zone enterprise licensed under this section specifying—
(a)the activities in respect of which the enterprise is licensed and shall, in relation to commercial activities, indicate whether the enterprise is permitted to deal in goods not directly related to its manufacturing activities; and
(b)any conditions attached to the licence.
[Act No. 14 of 1991, Act No. 9 of 2000, Act No. 4 of 2004.] 

Reference of the measure

Part III para 19 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Exports from export processing zones 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.