Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products
Date when the measure came into force: 01 April 1956
Publication where the measure is specified: Dangerous Drugs Act
Regulation where the measure is specified: Dangerous Drugs Act
Country/Region applying the measure: Malawi
The rationale of the measure: No specific objective stated
Coded list of objectives: X: For purposes n.e.s.
Description of the measure: "Restriction on import and export of drugs to which this Part applies and of plants from which such drugs are derived:No person shall import into or export from Malawi any drugs to which this Part applies, or plants from which such drugs are derived, except under and in accordance with the terms of a licence issued by the Minister."
Reference of the measure: Paragraph 4
Measure also domestic: No

Code	Product	Partial coverage
1211.30.00	Plants and parts of plants(including seeds and fruits), of akind used primarily in perfumery,in pharmacy or for insecticidal,fungicidal or similar purposes, freshor dried, whether or not cut, crushedor powdered: Coca leaf	No
1211.90.00	Plants and parts of plants(including seeds and fruits), of akind used primarily in perfumery,in pharmacy or for insecticidal,fungicidal or similar purposes, freshor dried, whether or not cut, crushedor powdered: Other	No
1302.11.00	Vegetable saps and extracts; pecticsubstances, pectinates and pectates;agar-agar and other mucilages andthickeners, whether or not modified,derived from vegetable products: Vegetable saps and extracts: Opium	No

Description: "(a) coca leaves;
(b) "Indian hemp", “bhang", “camba", “dagga", “mbanje” or “intsangu", resins obtained
therefrom and all preparations of which such resins form the base;
(c) raw opium."

Inclusion/Exclusion	Country	Date in	Date out
Inclusion	Entire world

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