Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products 

Date when the measure came into force

18 December 1970 

Publication where the measure is specified

Laws of Botswana Chapter 24:02 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Explosives Regulations 

Country/Region applying the measure

Botswana 

The rationale of the measure

No specific objective stated 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

8. Import permit
(1) No person shall import into Botswana any explosives other than fireworks imported from the Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe or Zambia unless at the time of importation or prior thereto he has obtained a permit in Form B in the First Schedule hereto:
Provided that transit of explosives by rail from a place outside Botswana through Botswana directly to another place outside Botswana shall not be deemed to be importation.
(2) A permit to import explosives shall be obtained in the manner prescribed in the Second Schedule, and shall be deemed to be a permit to possess the explosives so imported.
(3) The Chief Inspector of Explosives at his discretion may issue to any owner of a licensed magazine a general authority to import, possess and dispose of explosives, subject to such conditions as the Chief Inspector of Explosives may impose.
(4) The Chief Inspector of Explosives may at any time revoke such authority.
(5) The Chief Inspector of Explosives shall notify the Officer-in-Charge of the Central Explosives Registry of all permits issued by him under subregulation (2).
(6) No permit shall be issued under the provisions of this regulation authorizing the importation of explosives intended or adapted for military use except upon the written authority of the Minister, and no permit issued under this regulation shall be deemed to authorize such importation unless the authority of the Minister has been so obtained.
(7) Every such holder of a permit shall forward at the time of importation to the Officer-in-Charge, Central Explosives Registry, Private Bag 0049, Gaborone, a copy invoice of every consignment of explosives so imported. 

Reference of the measure

Article 8 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Explosives other than fireworks imported from the Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe or Zambia 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world