Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification
B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products 
Date when the measure came into force
01 January 1985 
Publication where the measure is specified
Proclamation No. 24 of 1984 
Regulation where the measure is specified
The Pharmacy Act 1983 
Country/Region applying the measure
Mauritius 
The rationale of the measure
None specified 
Coded list of objectives
X: For purposes n.e.s. 
Description of the measure
30 Import of therapeutic substances
(1) No person shall import any therapeutic substance other than that specified in the Sixth Schedule.
(2) No person shall, unless he holds a permit, import a therapeutic substance specified in the Sixth Schedule.
(3) No permit for the importation of a therapeutic substance shall be issued to any person other than -
(a) a pharmacist;
(b) an authorised person; or
(c) a person who proves to the satisfaction of the Permanent Secretary that he requires the therapeutic substance for purposes of scientific education orresearch.
(4) Any person who wishes to obtain a permit under this section shall

(a) make a written application to the Permanent Secretary; and
(b) furnish, in support of his application, such information as the Permanent Secretary may require. 
Reference of the measure
Article 30 
Measure also domestic
No 

Products affected by the measure.

Code Product Partial coverage Partial coverage indication Date in Date out
3003.10.00 - Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof, with a penicillanic acid structure, or streptomycins or their derivatives No    
3003.20.00 - Containing other antibiotics No    
3003.31.00 -- Containing insulin No    
3003.39.00 -- Other No    
3003.40.00 - Containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof but not containing hormones or other products of heading 29.37 or antibiotics No    
3003.90.00 - Other No    
3004.10.00 - Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof, with a penicillanic acid structure, or streptomycins or their derivatives No    
3004.20.00 - Containing other antibiotics No    
3004.31.00 -- Containing insulin No    
3004.32.00 -- Containing adrenal corticosteroid hormones, their derivatives or structural analogues No    
3004.39.00 -- Other No    
3004.40.00 - Containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof but not containing hormones, other products of heading 29.37 or antibiotics No    
3004.50.00 - Other medicaments containing vitamins or other products of heading 29.36 No    
3004.90.00 - Other No    
Description
Therapeutic substances listed hereunder:
Vaccines, sera; toxins, antitoxins and antigens
Amikacin; its salts
Amphomycin; its salts, its esters; their salts
Amphotericins; their salts
Arsphenamine and analogue substances used for the specific treatment of infective disease
Bacitracin
Campreomycin; its salts; its esters; their salts
Cephalosporins; their salts; their esters; their salts; esters of such salts
Cephamycins
Chloramphenicol; its esters
Chlortetracycline
Clindamycin; its salts; its esters
Colistin; its salts; its esters
Corticotrophin (Adrenocorticotrophichormone, ACTH)
Cortisone; its esters
Cycloserine; its salts
Dimethylchlortetracycl me; its salts
Erythromycin; its esters
Framycetin; its salts
Fusidic acid; its salts; its esters; their salts
Gentamicin; its salts; its esters; their salts
Griseofulvin, its salts
Hydrocortisone; its esters
Isoniazid; its salts; its derivatives; their salts
Kanamycin; its salts
Lincomycins —
S-alkyl derivatives of 6, 8-dedeoxy-6-trans- (4-alyky-L-2-pyrol idi ne-carboxamido)--I-thio-Derythro-
&-D-galacto-octo-pyranoside N-pyrollidine analogues thereof; their esters; their
salts
Nalidixic acid; its salts; its esters; their salts
Neomycin; its salts
Novobiocin; its salts
Nystatin; its salts
Oleandomycin; its salts; its esters; their salts
Organic substances having the specific biological action of curare on neuro-muscular
transmission; preparation of such substances
Oxytetracycline; its salts
Para-aminosalicylic acid; its salts
Paramomyclin; its salts; its esters; their salts
Penicillins; their salts; their derivatives; their esters
Polymyxins; their salts
Prednisolone; its esters
Prednisone; its esters
Preparations of the specific antidiabetic principle of the pancreas known as insulin
Preparations of the posterior lobe of the pituitary body
Preparations of human blood
Rifamycins —
A group of related macrolactams, either produced by the growth of Streptomyces
mediterranei or by
modification of such products, and containing the chemical structure of 11, -acetoxy-7, 9,
15-trihydroxymethoxy-2, 6, 8, 10, 1 2-pentamethyl pentadeca-2, 4, 1 4-trienoic acid amide,
attached by the nitrogen atom and by the oxygen atom in the 15-position respectively to the
7and 2-position of a 5, 6, 9-tn-oxygenated 2, 4-dimethyl-1 -oxonaphtho (2, 1-b) furan; their
salts and esters
Salts of their esters
Ristocetins; their salts
Spectinomycin; its salts
Spiramycin; its salts
Streptomycin; its salts, its derivatives and salts of such derivatives
Tobramycin, its salts
Tetracyclines —
Antimicrobial substances containing the chemical structure — naphthacene-2-carboxymide,
hydrogenated to any extent, and having each of the position 1, 3, 10, 14 and 12 substituted
by a hydroxyl or an oxogroup; their salts
Vancomycin; its salts
Viomycin; its salts
Virginiamycin; its salts 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Inclusion/Exclusion Country Date in Date out
Inclusion Entire world    
Description
Entire world