Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B82: Testing requirement 

Date when the measure came into force

08 July 2011 

Publication where the measure is specified

Legal Supplement (Part I) to the Zanzibar Government Gazette Vol. CXX No. 6417 of 8th July, 2011 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Zanzibar standards Act, 2011 

Country/Region applying the measure

Tanzania 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health 

Description of the measure

20. (1) Where commodities for which a standard has been declared are produced or manufactured outside Zanzibar, the Bureau shall authorize any member of its staff or any suitable qualified person to examine the commodities upon landing and all customs entries in respect of such commodities.
(2) Aperson authorized to examine commodities under this section may take sample thereof and submit the samples to the Bureau for analysis or testing.
(3) Where imported commodities are found to bear any mark so closely resembling a standard mark as to be misleading or which falsely represents a mark of compliance with specification formulated or adopted elsewhere in Zanzibar, the commodities shall not be entered for domestic use unless the mark is removed or substantially changed.
(4) where the standard declared is compulsory, commodities referred to in subsection (1) of this section may be entered for domestic use, only if:-
(a)Upon an examination it is found that the commodities comply with the compulsory standard: or
(b)They are accompanied by a certificate of examination and compliance with the compulsory standard issued by a laboratory or other similar institution in the country origin recognized by the Bureau.
(5) Where there is a reason to believe that commodities imported or about to be imported are likely to be a danger to the health or safety of consumers or likely to threaten the environment, where a standard exists for such commodities or not, the Bureau may require the importer.......... To submit such commodities for testing, and the commodities... be entered for domestic use or sold if:-
(a)Upon examination of the commodities they are found to be safe; or
(b)The importer or vendor show proof satisfactory to the Bureau that the
Commodities are safe.
(6) Where imported commodities fail to conform to the required standards such commodities shall not be released for sell or domestic use, and the supplies or importer shall not be required to remove a commodities from Zanzibar within two weeks or disposed off as the Bureau may reasonably decide.
(7) In the event of disposal the rejected commodities, the cost of disposing such commodities shall be borne by the supplier or importer as the case may be. 

Reference of the measure

Part III section 20 (1), (2), (3), (5), (6) & (7) 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

All imports 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.