Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: B31: Labelling requirements
Date when the measure came into force: 07 February 2003
Publication where the measure is specified: The Tobacco products ( regulations) Act, 2003
Regulation where the measure is specified: The Tobacco products regulations Act, 2003
Country/Region applying the measure: Tanzania
The rationale of the measure: (a) protecting persons under eighteen and other non smokers from inducements to use tobacco products;
(b) protecting non smokers from exposure to tobacco smoke;
(c) ensuring that the population is adequately informed about the risk of using tobacco products and exposure to second hand to-bacco smoke and about the benefits available for quitting smoking;
(d) ensuring that tobacco products are modified to reduce harm to such an extent as may be technologically and practically possible; and
(e) promoting a climate that will lead to a smoking-free atmosphere in all walks of life.
Coded list of objectives: A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure: 6. No person shall sell tobacco products unless the packet containing it displays in the prescribed form and manner such information as stipulated in the Second Schedule to this Act.
Reference of the measure: Part III Para 6
Measure also domestic: Yes

Code	Product	Partial coverage
2401	Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse.	No
2402	Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes.	No
2403	Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes;	No

Inclusion/Exclusion	Country	Date in	Date out
Inclusion	Entire world	07 February 2003

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