Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

E111: Licensing procedure with no specific ex-ante criteria 

Date when the measure came into force

19 November 1993 

Publication where the measure is specified

Statutory Instrument 350 of 1993 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Control of Goods (Import and Export)(Agriculture)Order, 1993 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zimbabwe 

The rationale of the measure

Not specified in the regulations 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

4 (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall import into Zimbabwe, except in accordance with the terms and conditions of a permit issued under section 6, any goods listed in the First Schedule.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to –
(a) any goods which are in transit through Zimbabwe to a place beyond the borders thereof;
(b) any goods other than, bees, unmanufactured bee-wax, foundation comb, honey including unprocessed royal jelly, used bee-hives, used bee-keeping accessories and appliances produced or manufactured in any country other than a specified country which are imported into Zimbabwe-
(i) by a person or family residing in Zimbabwe for his or its personal domestic consumption and not for sale or disposal to any other person; or
(ii) as a bona fide gift from a person residing outside Zimbabwe to a person or family residing in Zimbabwe;
if the value of such goods does not exceed fifty dollars , or where goods of the same class are imported into Zimbabwe by the same family more than once in a calendar month , if the aggregate value of such goods imported into Zimbabwe during that calendar month does not exceed fifty dollars.
6. The Secretary may issue a permit authorizing, subject to this order and any other law in force in Zimbabwe - (a) the import into Zimbabwe of any goods listed in the First Schedule 

Reference of the measure

Art 4 and 6(a) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

1. Animal oils and fats (lard, tallow, dripping).
2. Animal semen and animal embryos
3. Apples
4. Bananas, fresh or green
5. Barley, barley malt.
6. Beans, but excluding beans which are tinned, bottled or otherwise preserved
7. Bean meal.
8. Beef, veal
9. Bees, unmanufactured bee-wax and foundation comb.
10. Bones, bone meal.
11. Butter, ghee, cream, other than sterilized cream.
12. Cattle whether live or dead and including edible products produced from the carcasses of cattle, but excluding meat extract , meat paste , meat powder , potted meat and tinned meat.
13. Cheese.
14. Citrus fruit.
15. Compound products containing flour meal , residues and other preparations of a kind suitable only for use as animal feedstuffs but excluding –
(a) chemical additions to animal feed stuffs;
(b) antibiotic growth stimulants;
(c) inert fillers;
(d) synthetic animal feedstuffs;
(e) cat and dog feeds;
(f)salt lick for cattle.
16. Coffee beans .
17. Cotton, raw cotton or unginned cotton, cotton lint and ginned cotton seed.
18. Eggs of poultry, whether in shell, pulp or dried form.
19. Fertilizer of any type used in improving or maintaining the growth of plants or the productivity of soil.
20. Fish, whether fresh or dried including fish meal.
21. Goats, whether live or dead including edible products produced from the carcasses of goats,
22. Grain, dhal.
23. Grapes.
24. Groundnuts.
25. Hides and skins.
26. Honey, including unprocessed royal jelly.
27. Ice-cream, ice- cream royal jelly.
28. Maize including –
(a) green maize on the cob ;
(b)dried maize on or off the cob ;
( c ) crushed maize; and
(d) samp.
29. Maize meal including –
(a) maize grits;
(b) maize cones;
(c) haming chop;
(d) maize offals; and
(e)processed maize with or without additives.
30 Maleic Hydrazide known as MH.
31. Manure.
32. Meat meal, blood meal, carcass meal.
33. Milk, pasteurized milk, sterilized milk, UHT milk, lacto or any liquid milk of a volume of not more than 2 litres.
34. Mhunga, mhunga meal and mhunga malt.
35. Oil-seed, oil cake, oil cake meal, offals and residues from oil seeds.
36. Peaches.
37. Pears.
38. Plums.
39. Pigs, whether live or dead including –
(a) edible products produced from the carcasses of pigs , sausages, bacon, hams, polonies; and
(b) canned products but excluding meat pastes.
40. Rice in the grain.
41. Poultry, whether live or dead including-
(a) edible products produced from poultry
(b) canned poultry products ; and
( c) day-old chicks
42. Potatoes .
43. Rapoko, rapoko meal and rapoko malt.
44. Seed for planting.
45. Skimmed milk powder and full cream milk powder of a mass of not more than 25 kilograms.
46. Sorghum in the grain, sorghum meal and sorghum malt.
47. Soya beans.
48. Sugar, raw sugar and refined sugar.
49 Sunflower.
50 Tea.
51. Unmanufactured tobacco of all classes and types but excluding samples of 50 kilograms or less in mass.
52. Vegetables.
53. Vegetables oils, vegetable fats and margarine.
54. Wheat in the grain, wheat bran and wheat pollard 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia