Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B84: Inspection requirement 

Date when the measure came into force

01 July 1955 

Publication where the measure is specified

Customs and excise Act as at January 2015 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Customs and excise Act as amended by G.N No 407 of 1963 and Act No. 4 of 1999 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

11(1) An officer may require the owner of any package imported or believed to have been imported into Zambia, or entered for export or believed to be intended for export from Zambia, to open such package and may examine, weigh, mark, or seal such goods as are contained therein.
(2) n officer may, in the absence of the owner of any such package as is mentioned in subsection (1), open and examine such package at the owner’s risk and expense..
16 (1) The Commissioner General may appoint at any customs port or customs aerodrome places to be known as examination stations for the embarking and disembarking of persons and for the loading, unloading, and
examination of goods including baggage, and may from time to time make such rules and lay down such conditions in connection therewith as the Commissioner-General considers necessary.
(2)Where at any customs port or customs aerodrome, an examination station has been appointed under this section, any person who embarks or who disembarks or who loads or unloads goods otherwise than at such place, except with the written permission of the Commissioner-General, shall be guilty of an offence 

Reference of the measure

Part III para, 11 (1&2) 16 (1 &2) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

All imports 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Importing countries