Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

P62: Certification required by the exporting country 

Date when the measure came into force

17 September 1982 

Publication where the measure is specified

Statutory Instrument 557 of 1982 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Control of goods (Import and Export) (Wild Life) Regulations, 1982 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zimbabwe 

The rationale of the measure

Not stated in regulations 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

3 (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, but subject to the provisions of this section , no person shall-
(a) Import into or export from Zimbabwe any wild life, trophy or controlled goods except in accordance with the terms and conditions of –
(i) An open general permit; or
(ii) Permit; or
(iii) a certificate issues in terms of section 5 ; and where appropriate in accordance with the terms and conditions of an open general licence or licence issued in terms of Control of goods (Import and Export) (Commerce) Regulations , 1974 published in the Rhodesia Government Notice 766 of 1974; or

(2). The provisions of subsection (1) shall not apply to the import or export of –
(a) any wild life or trophy which was acquitted by the importer or exporter before the convention applied to it, if the importer or the exporter hold the certificate to that effect –
(i) in the case of import granted by an appropriate authority in the country from which the wild life or trophy concerned is being imported ; or
(i) in the case of an export, issued by the Director ; or
(b) any wildlife which was bred in captivity, ranched artificially propagated as the case may be, or any trophy of such wild life , if the importer or the exporter holds the certificate to that effect –
(i) in the case of an import , granted by an appropriate authority in the country in which the wild life concerned was bred or propagated :or
(ii)in the case of an export, issued by the Director,
Or
(c)herbarium specimens, other preserved, dried or embedded museum specimens , or plants material ,
Where-
(i)their import or export is effected by-
A. a museum which is a national museum for the purposes of the National Museum and Monuments Act [Chapter 313];
B. any other museum approved by the Director ; and
C. any scientist approved by the Director ; and
(ii) the specimens and material carry a label issued or approved by the Director
(3) No permit or certificate shall be required in terms of sub section (1) for the import or export of any wild life or trophy
(a) which a personal or household effect, save in the following cases-
(a) where a person who is ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe imports into Zimbabwe any wild life referred to in Part I of the Second Schedule , or any trophy of such wild life , which he acquired outside Zimbabwe ; or
(b) where a person who is ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe imports into Zimbabwe wild life referred to in Part II of the Second Schedule , or any trophy of such wild life, which he acquires outside Zimbabwe in the country where the wild life was removed from the wild , if that country requires the prior grant of an export permit before any export of such wild life or trophy ; or
c) where a person who is not ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe exports from Zimbabwe any wild life referred to in Part I of the Second Schedule or any trophy of such wild life which he acquires within Zimbabwe ; or
(d) where a person who is not ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe exports from Zimbabwe any wildlife referred to in Part II of the schedule which was removed from the wild within Zimbabwe, or any trophy of such of such wild life , if he acquired such wild life or trophy within Zimbabwe

(8) No permit or certificate issued in terms of subsection (1) or (2) shall authorize the import, export or re- export, as the case may be , of more than one consignment of wild life or trophies. 

Reference of the measure

Art 3(1)(a)(iii), (2) and (3)
Art 8 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Wild life means-
(a) Any organism, whether alive or dead, referred to in the Second Schedule ; and
(b) The egg or seed of any organism referred to in the Second Schedule ; and
(c) Any portion whatsoever of any organism referred to in the Second Schedule; other than a trophy, whether such portion is processed or not.
Trophy- means
(a)any durable portion of any wild life which has been subjected to a process of manufacture , and
(b) any manufacture or processed thing of which the durable portion of any life forms a part.
Controlled goods- game –traps of metal construction, operated by springs

SECOND SCHEDULE
PART I
ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD LIFE
PART A WILD LIFE WHICH OCCURS OR, OR WHICH MIGHT OCCUR WITHIN ZIMBABWE FAUNA
MAMMALS

Zimbabwean pangolin
Brown hyaena
Cheeta
Leopard
Rhinoceroses

BIRDS
White stork
Peregrine falcon

REPTILES
Nile crocodile

FLORA
Cycads

PART B
WILD LIFE OCCURING WITHIN AND OUTSIDE ZIMBABWE FAUNA
MAMMALS
Rat- kangaroo
Desert rat-kngaroo
Western hare wallaby
Banded hare wallaby
Merrin
Wurrung
Queensland hairy –nosed wombat
Pig-footed bandicoat
Bilby
Yallara
Marl
Long-tailed dunnart
Sandhilldunnat
Thylacine
Hairy eared dwarf lemurs
Fat-tailed dwarf lemurs
Gentle lemurs
Lemurs
Sportive lemurs
Mouse lemurs
Fork-marked mouse lemurs
Woolly indris
Indris
Sifakas
Aye-aye
Goeldi's marmoset
White-eared marmoset
Buff-headed marmoset
Golden tamarins
Bare-faced tamarin
White- footed tamarin
Cotton-headed tamarin
Mantled howler
Black-browed spider monkey
Red spider monkey
Woolly spider monkey
Uakaris
White nose saki
Red-backed squirrel-monkey
Tana River mangabey
Liberian Diana monkey
Zanzibar red colobus
Tana River red colobus
Lion-tailed macaque
Proboscis monkey
Drill monkey
Mandrill monkey
Entellus langur
Golden langur
Capped langur
Mentawai leaf monkey
Douc langur
Pig-tailed langur
Gibbons
Siamang
Gorillas/ orang-utan/ chimpanzees
Giant armadillo
Zimbabwean pangolin
Hispid hare
Volcano rabbit
Mexican prairie dog
Stick-nest rat
Smoky mouse
Shark Bay mouse
False water –rat
Macdonell Range rock-rat
Chinchillas
White flag dolphin
Ganges susu/ Indus susu
Sperm whale
South American river –dolphins
Finless porpoise
Cochito
Grey whale
Sei whale
Blue whale
Fin whale
Hump-back whale
Bow-head whale
Right whales
Grey wolf
Bush-dog
Northern swift fox
Sun-bear
Asiatic black bear
Spectacled bear
Himalayan brown bear
Mexican grizzy bear
Tibetan broen bear
Cameroon clawless otter
Southern sea otter
Marine otter
la plata otter
European otter
Southern river otter
Black footed ferret
Giant otter
Spotted linsang
Brown hyena
Cheetah
Indian leopard cat
Caracal
Florida Puma
Costa Rican puma
Eastern puma
Mountain cat
Marbled cat
Black –footed cat
Costa Rican ocelot
Brazilian ocelot
Flat- headed cat
Rusty-spotted cat
Mexican bobcat
Asiatic golden cat
Costa Rican tiger-cat
Nicaraguan margay
Tamaulipas jaguarundi
Yucatan jaguarundi
Panama jaguarundi
Sinaloa jaguarundi
Clouded leopard
Asiatic lion
Jaguar
Leopard
Tiger
Snow leopard
Guadalupe fur seal
Monk seals
Asian elephant
Dugong
South American manatee
North American manatee
Grevy’s zebra
Mongolian wild ass
Indian wild ass
Przewalski’s horse
Cape mountain zebra
Central American tapir
Malayan tapir
Mountain tapir
Rhinoceroses
Babirusa
Pygymy hog
Vicuna
Calamian deer
Kuhl’s deer
Ganges hog deer
Marsh deer
Swamp deer
Kashmir red deer
Brow-antlered deer
Persian –fallow deer
North Andean huemal
South Andean huemal
Himalayan musk deer
Pampas deer
Southern pudu
Sonoran pronghorn
Lower California pronghorn
Wood bison
Gaur
Wild yak
Lowland anoa
Tamaraw
Mountain Anoa
Chiltan markhor
Straight horned markhor
Kabul markhor
Serow
Giant sable antelope
Goral
Kouprey
Arabian oryx
Nyan
Cyprus mouflon
Urial
Chiru
Abbruzzi chamois

BIRDS
Lesser rhea
Solitary tinamou
Peruvian penguin
Atitlan grebe
Short-tailed albatross
Abbott’s booby
Christmas Island frigate-bird
Oriental white stork
Northern bald ibis
Japanese crested ibis
Campbell Island brown teal
Laysan duck
Marianas duck
Aleutian Canada goose
Hawaiian goose
White –winged wood –duck
Pink -headed duck
Carlifonia condor
Andean condor
Imperial eagle
Cuban hook-billed kite
White- tailed eagle
Bald eagle
South American harpy eagle
Phillipine eagle
Seychelles kestrel
Aldabra kestrel
Peregrine falcon
Mauritius kestrel
Gyr falcon
Maleo fowl
Red billed curassow
Greater razor – billed curassow
Horned guan
White -winged guan
Black - fronted piping guan
Trinidad blue throated curassow
Attwater’s prairie –chicken
Cheer pheasant
Masked bobwhite
White -eared pleasant
Brown -eared pleasant
Himalayan monal
Chinese monal
Sclater’s monal
Edward’s pheasant
Imperial’s pheasant
Swinhoe’s pheasant
Palawan ‘s Peacock-pheasant
Elliot’s pheasant
Hume’s pheasant
Mikado’s pheasant
Caspian snowcock
Tibetan snowcock
Blyth’s tragopan
Cabot’s tragopan
Western tragopan
Whooping crane
Cuban sandhill crane
Mississipppi sandhill crane
Red-crowned crane
Siberian white crane
Hooded crane
Black –necked crane
White naped crane
Lord howe wood rail
Kagu
Houbara bustard
Grat Indian bustard
Bengal florican
Eskimo curlew
Spotted greenshank
Relict gull
Nicobar pigeon
Mindoro imperial pigeon
Red –necked parrot
Yellow shouldered parrot
Red tailed parrot
St Vincent Amazon parrot
Imperial Amazon parrot
Caribbean Amazon parrot
Red-spectacled Amazon parrot
Red crowned Amazon parrot
St Lucia Amazon parrot
Vinaceous Amazon parrot
Red-fronted Amazon parrot
Glaucous macaw
Indigo macaw
Golden conure
Little blue macaw
Forbes’s yellow –fronted parakeet
Red-fronted parakeet
Double-eyed fig-parrot
Night- parrot
Orange bellied parrot
Ground-parrot
Brazillian pileated parrot
Golden –shouldrerd parrot
Paradise parrot
Mauritius parakeet
Principe grey parrot
Blue throated conure
Thick billed parrots
Kakapo
Madagascar owlet
Forest spotted owlet
Norfolk island boobook owl
Christmas island hawk owl
Giant scops owl
Hook-billed hermit
Costa Rican respendent quetzal
Mexican resplendent quetzal
Northern great pied hornbill
Helmeted hornbill
Imperial woodpecker
Tristram’s white bellied black wood pecker
Koch’s pitta
Banded cotinga
White- winged cotinga
Noisy scrub- bird
Western bristle-bird
Western rufous bristle bird
White breasted silver –eye
Helmeted hone- eater
Red siskin
Rothschild’s mynah

REPTILES
Common batagur
Black pond –turtle
Three-keeled land –turtle
Indian tent-turtle
Burmese swamp-turtle
Aquatic box –turtle
Galapagos giant tortoise
Radiated tortoise
Madagascar tortoise
Bolson tortoise
Geometric tortoise
Sea-turtle
Leather back turtle
Indian soft- shelled turtle
Black soft-shelled turtle
Ganges soft-shelled turtle
Peacock marked soft shell turtle
Dark soft –shelled turtle
Western swamp- turtle
Chinese Alligator
Rio Apaporis caiman
Broad –nosed caiman
American crocodile
Slender- snouted crocodile
Orinoco crocodile
Morelet’s crocodile
Nile crocodile
Mindoro crocodile
Mugger crocodile
Salt- water crocodile
Cuban crocodile
Siamese crocodile
Dwarf crocodile
False gavian
Gavial

RHYNCHOCEPHALIA
Tuatara
Figian iguana
Groundguana
Chuckwalla
Bengal monitor
Yellow monitor
Desert monitor
Komodo dragon
Madagascar boas
Round Island boa
Keel-scaled boa
Puerto Rican boa
Jamaican boa
Indian python
Madagascar tree-boa
Chinese giant salamander
Japanese giant salamander
Orange toad
Cameroon toad
Viviparous African toads
Zetek’s golden frog

FISH
Short- nose sturgeon
Asian bony-tongue
Long-jaw cisco
Ikan temoleh
Cui ni
Giant cat-fish
Blue wall-eye
Totoaba

MOLLUSCS
Bird-wing pearly mussel
Dromedary pearly mussel
Curtis pearly mussel
Yellow-blossom pearly mussel
Sampson’s pearly mussel
White cat’s- paw mussel
Green blossom pearly mussel
Tuberculed blossom pearly mussel
Turgid blossom pearly mussel
Brown blossom pearly mussel
Fine-rayed pigtoe pearly mussel
Shiny pigtoe pearly mussel
Higgin’s eye pearly mussel
Pink mucket pearly mussel
Plain pocketbook pearly mussel
Alabama lamp pearly muscle
White warty-back pearly mussel
Orange-foted pimple-back
Rough pig-te pearly mussel
Cumberland monkey-face pearly mussel
Pale Lilliput pearly mussel
Nicklin’s pearly mussel
Tampico pearly mussel
Cumberland bean pearly mussel
FLORA
Elephant’s trunk , or Half- mens
An elephant ‘s- ear plant
An elephant’s –ear plant
Monkey –puzzle tree, or Chile pine
A cactus (Mexican)
A cactus (north Mexico)
A cactus (north-east Mexico)- Aztekium ritteri
A hedgehog cactus
A cactus (north east Mexico)- obregonia denegrii
A hatchet cactus (central Mexico)
A hatchet cactus (north Mexico)
Gymnocarpos przerwalskii
Melandrium monolicus
A chick weed ot startwort
Fitzroy’s cypress
A cypress
Palma corcho
A gentian
Vantanea babourii
Engelhardtia piereocarpa
Ammopiptanthus monolicum-a legume
Platy miscium pleistcachyum- a legume
Tachigalia versicolor – a legume
Aloe albida-a agrass aloe
Aloe pillansil – Bastard quiver –tree
Aloe polyphylla – spiral aloe
Aloe throncropftii- an aloe
Aloe vossii – an aloe
Lavoisiera itambana
Guarea longipetiola- a mahogany
Batocarpus cosracicensis
Nepenthes rajar- Pitcher plant
Cattleya skinneri
Cattleya triana- Christmas orchid, or winter cattleya
Didiciea cunninghamii
Lalia jonggheana
Lalia lobata
Lycaste virginalis var alba- whilte nun orchid
Peristeria elata- Holy Ghost or dove orchid
Renanthera imschootiana
Vanda coerulea- blue vanda
Abies guatemalensis – A Guatemalan fir tree
Abies nebrodensis – A fir tree
Podocarpus costalis – a yellow wood
Podocarpus parlatorei –a yellow wood
Orothamnus zeyheri – March rose
Protea odorata
Balmea stormiae
Saracenia alabamensis – Pitcher plant
Saracenia jonesii –sweet picher plant
Saracenia oreophila- Pitcher plant
Ribes sardoum – A currant or gooseberry
Stangeria eriopus – Grass cycad
Celtis atnensis –a hackberry
Welwitschia mirabilis – Welwitschia
Encephalartos spp – cycads
Hedychium philippinense – ginger lily or flowering


PART II WILD LIFE WHICH MAY BECOME ENDANGERED
PART A
WILD LIFE WHICH OCCURS< OR WHICH MIGHT OCCUR WITHIN ZIMBABWE FAUNA

MAMMALS
Zimbabwean hedgehog
All primate species
Otters
Cats
Ant-bear
African elephant
Blue duiker
Boan antelope

BIRDS
Black stork
Grater flamingo
Knob- billed duck
Birds of prey
Crowned crane
All parrot- like birds
Purple- crested loerie
Knysna loerie
Owls and owl-like birds

REPTILES
Chameleons
Girdle- tailed lizards
Monitors
Pythons

FLORA
Rosary vines (and numerous others)
Tree ferns
Euphorbias (succulent)
Aloes
Orchids
Quilika
Zamiacea –cycads

PART B
WILD LIFE OCCURING WITHIN AND OUTSIDE ZIMBABWE FAUNA
MAMMALS
New Guienea echidnas
Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
Lumholtz- tree kangaroo
Grizzled tree- kangaroo
Black tree-kangaroo
Spotted cuscus
Grey cuscus
Mountain pygymy possum
Zimbabwean hedgerhog
All primate species
Giant ant-eater
Mato Grosso tamandua
Bolivian three toed sloth
Indian pangolin
Malayan pangolin
Chinese pangolin
Sumatra short eared rabbit
Four –stiped ground squirrel
Phillips’s kangaroo-rat
Hopping mice
Shortridge’s native mouse
Whales, dolphins, porpoise
Grey wolf
Maned wolf
Dhole
Culpeo fox
Chiloe fox
Chico grey fox
Afghan fox
Polar bear
Lesser panda
Patagonian skunk
Otters
Fossa
Otter civet
Falanouc
Malagasy mongoose
Malagasy civet
Banded palm civet
Banded lingsang
Felidae spp- Cats
Fur seals
Northern elephant seal
Southern elephant seal
Ant-bear
Loxodonta Africana- African elephant
Dugong
West African manatee
Asiatic wild ass
Hartmann’s mountain zebra
South American tapir
Pygmy hippopotamus
Guanaco
Bactrian red deer
Musk dear
Norther pudu
Mexican pronghorn
Addax
Markhor
Blue duiker
Bontebok
Roan antelope
Red lechwe
Scimitar –horned oryx
Big horned sheep
Argentine greater rhea
Bolivian rufous tinamou
Argentine rufous tinamou
Brazilian rufous tinamou
Black -footed penguin, or African jackass penguin
Dalmatian pelican
Balack stork
Bald ibis
White spoonbill
Andean flamingo
James’s flamingo
Chilean flamingo
Caribbean flamingo
Auckland island brown teal
New Zealand brown teal
Madagascar teal
Tule white –fronted goose
Red- breasted goose
Coscoroba swan
Eastern Bewick’ swan
Black- necked swan
Black –billed whisting duck
Knob- billed duck
Birds of prey
Abbott’s scrub fowl
Nicobar scrub fowl
Caucasian black grouse
Great argus pheasant
Mearns’s Montezuma quail
Montezuma quail
Pale-bellied francolin
Swierstra’s francolin
Grey jungle fowl
Blood pheasant
Green peafowl
Grey peacock-pheasant
Germain's peacock pheasant
Malay peacock-pheasant
Black breasted button quail
Plains wanderer
Crowned crane
Florida sandhill crane
Eastern weka
Great bustard
Little curlew
Slender-billed curlew
Brown –headed gull
Bleeding -heart pigeon
Blue-crowned pigeon
Maroon breasted crowned pigeon
Victoria crowed pigeon
Psitta ciformes- All parrot like birds
Purple crested loerie
Knysna loerie
Strigiformes - Owls and owl like birds
Narcondam hornbill
Great pied hornbill
Luzon rufuous hormbill
Malayan rhinoceros hornbill
Western scaly-bellied green woodpecker
Fairy pitta
Andean cock- of- the- rock
Guianan cock- of- the- rock
White- eyed river –martin
Rueck’s blue fly –catcher
Western whip-bird
Yellow- faced siskin
Red-eared fire-tail
Parson finch
Birds of paradise
Central Americam river turtle
Bog-turtle
Testuduiae spp- Tortoises
South American river turtles
Alligatoridade- Alligators
Crocoyidae- crocodiles
Serpent Island gecko
Day geckos
Queensland snake- lizard
Spiny- tailed lizards
Chameleons
Galapagos marine iguana
Land iguana
Iguana spp -Iguanas
San Diego horned lizard
Girdlr –tailed lizards
Crag-lizards
Orange-throated whip tail
Dragon lizardet
Caiman lizard
Tegus
Gila monster and headed lizard
Varanus spp –Monitors
Baos and pythons
False cobra
Indian egg-eating snake
Mussurana
Two- striped garter –snake
Lake Patzeuaro salamander
Lake Lerma salamander
Axolotl
Sonoran green toad
Coelacanth
Australian lungfish
Lake sturgeon
Atlantic sturgeon
Common sturgeon
Arapaima
Mexican golden trout
Beloribitsa
Wound-fin
Colorado River squaw-fish
Pearl –fish
Ginger pearl –fish
Minute pearl-fish
Opalescent pearl-fish
Splendid pearl-fish
Monterey platyfish
Marine mussels
Edible pearly mussel
Tan-blossom pearly mussel
Long solid mussel
Ozark-lamp pearly mussel
Club pearly mussel
Manus Island tree-snail
New Zealand amber – snail
Coahuilix hubbsi- Fresh - water snail
Cochliopino milleri - Fresh - water snail
Durangonella Coahuila - Fresh - water snail
Mexipyrgus escobedae - Fresh - water snail
Mexipyrgus lugoi - Fresh - water snail
Mexipyrgus mojarralis - Fresh - water snail
Mexipygus multilineatus- Fresh - water snail
Mexithauma quadrpaludium- Fresh - water snail
Nymphophilus minckleyi - Fresh - water snail
Paludiscala caramba- Fresh - water snail

INSECTS
Orntthoptera spp- Bird- wing butterflies
Apollo butterfly
Trogonoptera spp -Bird-wing butterfly
Triodes spp – Bird –wing butterflies
Anthozoa
FLORA
Elephant’s trunk, or Halfmens
American ginseng
Chile pine, or monkey puzzle tree
Rosary vines (and numerous others )
A milk weed
Byblises
Cacti
Wickerware cati
Albany pitcher plant
Lamb’s tails
Kuth or Costus
Cyatheaceae- Tree-ferns
Cycads
Dicksoniaceae-Tree-ferns
Diidiereaceae- Tree-fern
Dioscorea deltoidea – an edible yam
Euphorbias (succulent)
Copey oak
Kangaroo –pawa
Black kangaroo-paws
Mongolian false lupin
Aloes
Mexican mahogany
Feather flowers
Orchids
Dwarf betel palm
Chrysalidocapus decipiens- a palm
Butterfly palm
Neodypsis decaryl- a palm
Phonix hanceana var- a palm
Quilika or tirika (Zimbabwe)
Cyclamens
Banksias
Smake bushes
Showy dryandra
Dryandra polycephala- a dryandra
Woody pears
Boronias
Croweas
Califonia pitcher plant or cobra plant
Solanum sylvestre- a nightshade
Stangetiaceae spp – grass cycads
Basiloxyon excelsum
Pimelea physodes –a rice flower
Caryopteris monolics – Mongolian blue beard
Welwitschia
Zamiacea spp – cycads
Lignum-vitae

PART III
SPECIES OF WILD LIFE PROTECTED IN PARTICULAR COUNTRIES

FAUNA
Collared ant –eater
Grey three-toed sloth
Hoffmann’s sloth
Cabassous centralis -Naked –tailed armadillo
Cabassous gyrmnurus (tatouay) - Naked –tailed armadillo
Giant pangolin
Long- tailed tree pangolin
Manis tricuspis- tree pangolin
Red -headed forest squirrel
Deppe’s squirrel
Scaly-tailed squirrels
Pygmy scaly-taied squirrels
Old wordl large porcupines
Skinny tree- porcupine
Fennec fox
Bushy –tailed oling
Central American cacomistle
Uruguay coati
Allamand’s grison
Honey badger African civet
Aardwolf
Walrus
Collared peccary
Hippopotamus
Water chevrotain
Barbary red deer
Brocket deer
White tailed , or Virginia , deer
Barbary sheep
Black buck
Bongo
Asiatic buffalo
Tsessebe
Dorcas gazelle
Edmi
Rhim
Four horned antelope
Sitatunga

BIRDS
Greater rhea
Goliath heron
Cattle egret
Little egret
Saddle –Bill stork
Marabou stork
Hadada ibis
Spot-brested ibis
Ducks, geese, swans
Great currasow
Plain chachalaca
Black guan
White-breasted guinea-fowl
Satyr tragopan
Ocellated turkey
Double –striped thick-knee
Doves, pigeon
Pink pigeon
Ring-pecked parakeet
Turacos
Rainbow-billed toucan
Rodriguez warbler
Mascarene paradise fly –catcher
Yellow cardinal saffron –cowled black bird
Finches
Weaves

REPTILES
Nile soft-shelled turtle
Helmeted turtle
Side-necked turtles
Mameilet
A magnolia
A poppy
A yellow-wood
Tetracentron 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries