Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B6: Product identity requirement 

Date when the measure came into force

18 June 1976 

Publication where the measure is specified

Laws of Botswana Chapter 74:06 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Sorghum (Classification and Grading) Regulations (Chapter 74:06) 

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

4. Classes
There shall be four classes of grain sorghum, namely-
(a) white sorghum, i.e. sorghum consisting of not less than 90 percent (weight by weight)
white sorghum, irrespective of any purplish anthocyanic blotches in or on the pericarp,
and which does not have a dark nucellar layer provided that it complies at least with
the Grade SW2;
(b) red sorghum, i.e. sorghum consisting of not less than 90 percent (weight by weight)
sorghum of any colour ranging through yellow, pink, red and reddish brown,
irrespective of any purplish anthocyanic blotches in or on the pericarp, and which does
not have a dark nucellar layer, provided it complies at least with the Grade SR2;
(c) mixed sorghum, i.e. sorghum consisting of not less than 90 percent (weight by weight)
sorghum of any colour and which does have a dark nucellar layer, provided it complies
at least with the Grade SM3; and
(d) sample-grade, i.e. sorghum other than sorghum of any of the above-mentioned
classes.
5. Grades
(1) The grades for the different classes of sorghum (excluding the class sample-grade)
shall be as follows-
Class of sorghum
White sorghum .........................and SW2
Red sorghum ...........................and SR2
Mixed sorghum ........................., SM2 and SM3. 

Reference of the measure

Article 4 and Sub-article 5(1) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Grain sorghum 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries and regions