Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: B81: Product registration/approval requirements
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: To control arms and amunitions
Coded list of objectives: X: For purposes n.e.s.
Description of the measure: 7. Registration of imported arms and ammunition
(1) All arms and ammunition imported into Botswana either for the purpose of sale or for the personal use of the importer shall be registered in such manner as may be prescribed.
Reference of the measure: Sub-article 7(1)
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

Inclusion/Exclusion	Country	Date in	Date out
Inclusion	Entire world

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