Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

P13: Production and post-production requirements to export 

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

"5. (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall export from Zimbabwe, except in accordance with the terms and conditions of a permit issued under section 6, any goods listed in the Second Schedule.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to an goods which are in the course of transit through Zimbabwe to a place beyond the borders thereof.

6. The Secretary may issue a permit authorizing, subject to this order and any other law in force in Zimbabwe-
(b) the export from Zimbabwe of any goods listed in the Schedule 

Reference of the measure

Art 5 and Art 6(b) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

1. Animal oils and fats.
2. Animal semen and animal embryos
3. Barley, barley meal, barley malt.
4. Bananas.
5.Beans, dried, bean meal.
6. Beef, veal
7. Butter, ghee, cream, other than sterilized cream.
8. 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 canned meat which has been subjected to a process of cooking.
9. Cheese.
10. Citrus fruit.
11. Coffee, raw.
12. 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) trace elements
(e) synthetic animal feedstuffs;
(f) cat and dog feeds .
13. Cotton, raw cotton or unginned cotton, cotton lint and ginned cotton seed.
14. Eggs of poultry, whether in shell, pulp or dried form.
15. Fish whether fresh or dried.
16.Fertilizer.
17. Groundnuts.
18. Hides and skins.
19.Maize including –
(a) dried maize on or off the cob ;
(b) crushed maize;
(c ) samp
(d) green maize on the cob.
20. Maize meal including –
(a) maize grits;
(b)maize cones;
(c) hominy chop; and
(d) maize offals.
21. Meat meal, blood meal, carcass meal.
22. Mhunga and mhunga meal and mhunga malt .
23. Milk, pasteurized milk, sterilized milk, UHT milk, lacto or any liquid milk .
24. Oil-seed, oil cake, oil cake meal.
25. Pigs, whether live or dead including edible products produced from such carcasses but excluding meat extracts, meat pastes, meat powder, potted meat and canned meat products which have been subjected to a process of heating.
26. Potatoes.
27. Poultry, whether live or dead including-
(a) products produced from such carcasses but excluding canned poultry products which have been subjected to a process of heating: and
(b) day old chicks.
28. Seed for planting.
29. Skimmed milk powder and full cream milk powder.
30. Sorghum in the grain, sorghum meal and sorghum malt.
31. Soya beans.
32. Sugar, raw sugar and refined sugar.
33 Sunflower.
34 Tea.
35. Vegetables.
36. Vegetables oils, vegetable fats and margarine.
37. 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