Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification
P13: Production and post-production requirements to export 
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
A: Protection of human life and health and 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.

Code Product Partial coverage Partial coverage indication Date in Date out
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    
1302.19.00 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: Other No    
2939.11.00 Vegetable alkaloids, natural orreproduced by synthesis, andtheir salts, ethers, esters andother derivatives: Alkaloids of opium and theirderivatives; salts thereof: Concentrates of poppy straw;buprenorphine (INN), codeine,dihydrocodeine (INN), No    
2939.91.00 Vegetable alkaloids, natural orreproduced by synthesis, andtheir salts, ethers, esters andother derivatives: Other: (INN) metamfetamine: Cocaine, ecgonine,levometamfetamine, metamfetamineracemate; salts, esters and otherderivatives thereof No    
2939.19.00 Vegetable alkaloids, natural orreproduced by synthesis, andtheir salts, ethers, esters andother derivatives: Alkaloids of opium and theirderivatives; salts thereof: Other No    
2939.91.00 Vegetable alkaloids, natural orreproduced by synthesis, andtheir salts, ethers, esters andother derivatives: Other: (INN) metamfetamine: Cocaine, ecgonine,levometamfetamine, metamfetamineracemate; salts, esters and otherderivatives thereof No    
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.
66. Diacetylmorphine (commonly known as diamorphine or heroin) and the other esters of morphine and their respective salts.
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.

Inclusion/Exclusion Country Date in Date out
Inclusion Entire world    
Description
Entire world