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NTM classification: A14: Authorization requirement for sanitary and phytosanitary reasons for importing certain products
Date when the measure came into force: 28 January 1977
Publication where the measure is specified: Laws of Botswana Chapter 37:01 Disease of Animals
Regulation where the measure is specified: Disease of Animals Act
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: 6. Control of import and export
(1) No person shall, without the consent of the Director, import or export any animal, carcass, hide, skin, hoof, hair, wool, semen or any other produce of animal origin, litter, dung, fodder, live virus, or other pathogenic agent capable of setting up disease in animals, serum, vaccine or other biological or chemical product intended to be used for the treatment of animals.
Reference of the measure: Sub-article 6(1)
Measure also domestic: No

Products affected by the measure.

Code	Product	Partial coverage	Partial coverage indication
0101	Live horses, asses, mules and hinnies.	No
0102	Live bovine animals.	No
0103	Live swine.	No
0104	Live sheep and goats.	No
0105	Live poultry, that is to say, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls.	No
0106	Other live animals.	No
0502	Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair.	No
0505	Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of fe	No
0506	Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products.	No
0507	Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products.	No
0511	Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption.	Yes	Other animal products
4101	Raw hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split.	No
4102	Raw skins of sheep or lambs (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not with wool on or split, other than those excluded by note	No
4103	Other raw hides and skins (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split, other than those excluded by note	No
4104	Tanned or crust hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared.	No
4105	Tanned or crust skins of sheep or lambs, without wool on, whether or not split, but not further prepared.	No
4106	Tanned or crust hides and skins of other animals, without wool or hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared.	No
4107	Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment-dressed leather, of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split, other than leather of heading 41.14.	No
4301	Raw furskins (including heads, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings, suitable for furriers' use), other than raw hides and skins of heading 41.01, 41.02 or 41.03.	No
5101	Wool, not carded or combed.	No
5102	Fine or coarse animal hair, not carded or combed.	No
5103	Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, including yarn waste but excluding garnetted stock.	No

Description: Any animal, carcass, hide, skin, hoof, hair, wool, semen or any other produce of animal origin, litter, dung, fodder, live virus, or other pathogenic agent capable of setting up disease in animals, serum, vaccine or other biological or chemical product intended to be used for the treatment of animals.

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Inclusion/Exclusion	Country	Date in	Date out
Inclusion	Entire world

Description: Entire world

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