Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

A19: Prohibitions/restrictions of imports for SPS reasons n.e.s. 

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

382. Toxic fish
No person shall import, land, process, pack, store, offer for sale or sell any toxic fish as provided in the Sixty-Third Schedule. 

Reference of the measure

Article 382 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Toxic fish:
1. Yellow-tailed croissant (Variola louti)
2. Sinsillac or Vielle babonne (Plectropomus maculates)
3. Vielle loutra or Otter wrasse (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus)
4. Vara-vara (Lutjanus bohar)
5. Giblot (Lutjajus monostigmus)
6. Wrasse, Vieille cuisiner called crute noir (Cephalopholis argus)
7. Cheval de bois (Anyperodon leucogrammicus)
8. Large tartara or Grosse sardine (Harengula ovalis)
9. Flat wrasse, or Bambara or Vieille plate (Epinephelus aerolatus)
10. Crab with redspots or Crab onze taches (Carpilius maculates)
11. Chemise (Lutjanus gibbus)
12. Benitier (Tridacna species)
13. Sea urchin (Echinothrix species)
14. Caret or Hawk’s bill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
15. Laffe, if alive (Synanceja verrucosa)
16. Boule tangue (Diodon hystrix)
17. Remora or Pilot of the shark (Remora remora)
18. Coffre (Lactoria cornuta)
19. Barracuda, called Tazar lichien (Sphyraena barracuda)
20. Bourgeois (Lutjanus sebae)
21. Carangue des bancs (Caranx species) 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world