Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products
Date when the measure came into force: 31 December 1981
Publication where the measure is specified: Laws of Botswana Chapter 24:01 Arms and Amunutions
Regulation where the measure is specified: Arms and Ammunition Act
Country/Region applying the measure: Botswana
The rationale of the measure: Control of arms and amunitions
Coded list of objectives: X: For purposes n.e.s.
Description of the measure: 6. Prohibition of importation of arms and ammunition
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, no person shall import any arms or ammunition except under and in accordance with an import permit issued under this section.
(2) Arms or ammunition for the purpose of sale shall be imported only under the authority of an arms dealer's import permit.
Reference of the measure: Article 6
Measure also domestic: No

Code	Product	Partial coverage
9301	Military weapons, other than revolvers, pistols and the arms of heading 93.07.	No
9302	Revolvers and pistols, other than those of heading 93.03 or 93.04.	No
9303	Other firearms and similar devices which operate by the firing of an explosive charge (for example, sporting shotguns and rifles, muzzle-loading firearms, Very pistols and other devices designed to project only signal flares, pistols and revolvers for fir	No
9304	Other arms (for example, spring, air or gas guns and pistols, truncheons), excluding those of heading 93.07.	No
9305	Parts and accessories of articles of headings 93.01 to 93.04.	No
9306	Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar munitions of war and parts thereof; cartridges and other ammunition and projectiles and parts thereof, including shot and cartridge wads.	No

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