Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

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

"11. Restriction on import and export of drugs to which this Part applies
No person shall import into or export from Malawi any drugs to which this Part applies, except under and in accordance with the terms of a licence issued by the Minister." 

Reference of the measure

Paragraph 11 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

1. Medicinal Opium;
2. Any medicinal extract or tincture derived from the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any preparation, not being a preparation capable of external use only, made from such medicinal extract or tincture.
3. Morphine and its salts.;
4. Cocaine (including synthetic cocaine) and ecgonine and their respective salts, and the esters of ecgonine and their respective salts;
5. 5. Any solution or dilution of morphine or cocaine or their salts in an inert substance, whether liquid or solid, containing any proportion of morphine or cocaine, and any preparation, admixture, extract, or other substance (not being such a solution or dilution as aforesaid) containing not less than one-fifth per cent. of morphine or one-tenth per cent. of cocaine or of ecgonine.
6. 6. Diacetylmorphine (commonly known as diamorphine or heroin) and the other esters of morphine and their respective salts.
7. 7. Dihydrohydroxycodeinone (also known as Oxycodone);
Dihydrocodeinone (also known as Hydrocodone);
Dihydromorphinone (also known as Hydromorphone); Acetyldihydrocodeinone;
Dihydromorphine; their esters, and the salts of any of these substances and of their esters;
8. Morphine-N-oxide (commonly known as genomorphine) also the morphine-N-oxide derivatives, and the other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives.
9. Thebaine and its salts, and (with the exception of methylmorphine, commonly known as codeine, and ethylmorphine, and their respective salts), benzylmorphine and the other ethers of morphine and their respective salts.
10. Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of any of the substances mentioned in paragraphs 6,7, 8 and 9.
11. The following substances and their salts, and any preparation, admixture, extract, or other substance containing any proportion of any of the substances or salts—
Pethidine (1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester);
Ketobemidone (4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-1-methyl-4-piperidyl ethyl ketone or 1-methyl-4-
metahydroxyphenyl-4-propionyl-piperidine);
Hydroxypethidine (1-methyl-4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-piperidine-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester or 1-
methyl-4-metahydroxyphenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester);
Alphaprodine .....(a-1,3-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4-proprionoxypiperidine);
Betaprodine (b-1,3-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4-propionoxypiperidine);
Betameprodine .....(b-1-methyl-3-ethyl-4-phenyl-4-proprionoxypiperidine);
Methadone (4,4-diphenyl-6-dimethylaminoheptanone-3 or 6-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenyl-3-
heptanone); Isomethadone (4,4-diphenyl-5-methyl-6-dimethylaminohexanone-3 or 6-dimethylamino-5-
methyl-4,4-diphenyl-3-hexanone);
Methadol (4,4-diphenyl-6-dimethylaminoheptanol-3 or 6-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenyl-3-
heptanol);
a-Methadol(a-6-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenyl-3-heptanol);
Methadyl ..... acetate .....(4,4-diphenyl-6-dimethylamino-3-acetoxyheptane or 6-dimethylamino-
4,4-diphenyl-3-acetoxyheptane);
a-Acetylmethadol ..... (a-6-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenyl-3-acetoxyheptane);
b-Acetylmethadol ..... (b-6-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenyl-3-acetoxyheptane);
Phenadoxone ..... (4,4-diphenyl-6-morpholinoheptanone-3 or 6-morpholino-4,4-diphenyl-3-
heptanone);
Racemorphan (d,1-3-hydroxy-N-methylmorphinan);
Levorphan (1-3-hydroxy-N-methylmorphinan);
Racemethorphan (d,1-3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan);
Levomethorphan. (1 -3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan);
3-dimethylamino-1,1-di-(2’-thienyl)-1-butene;
3-ethylmethylamino-1,1-di-(2’-thienyl-1-butene. 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world