Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: B9: TBT Measures n.e.s.
Date when the measure came into force: 24 May 1971
Publication where the measure is specified: CHAPTER 386 - Timber Act
Regulation where the measure is specified: the Timber Act.
Country/Region applying the measure: Kenya
Coded list of objectives: X: For purposes n.e.s.
Description of the measure: 6. (1) No person other than a grader shall mark any timber with a prescribed mark and no person shall place upon any timber any mark which is so similar to a prescribed mark as to be liable to be mistaken therefor.
(2) No person shall re-saw or otherwise alter the state of a piece of timber bearing a prescribed mark unless before doing so he has effectively obliterated such mark in such a manner as to render it unrecognizable.
(3) No person shall, except in compliance with subsection (2) of this section or to give effect to the regrading of any timber, deface, alter or obliterate any prescribed mark on any timber.
(4) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence.
Reference of the measure: Part II para 6
Measure also domestic: Yes

Code	Product	Partial coverage
4403	Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared.	No
4404	Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of walking-sticks, umbrellas, tool handles or the like; chipwo	No
4407	Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm.	No

Inclusion/Exclusion	Country	Date in	Date out
Inclusion	Entire world	24 May 1971

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