Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products 

Date when the measure came into force

01 January 1967 

Publication where the measure is specified

Control of Goods Act 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Control of Goods(Import and Export) Agriculture) Order 

Country/Region applying the measure

Malawi 

The rationale of the measure

No specific objective stated 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

5. Prohibition of imports
(1) No person shall import into Malawi-
b) any goods specified in the Second Schedule or any class of such goods, except in accordance with a licence issued in terms of paragraph 3 or 4. 

Reference of the measure

Article 5(1)(b) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

1. — (1) Clothing and uniforms, designed for military, naval, air force or police use.
(2) Clothing, used, other than the personal effects of an individual.
(3) Bell-bottom trousers.
2. Gold, including—
(a) any unmanufactured gold in any form whatsoever;
(b) any article or substance containing such unmanufactured gold;
(c) any article consisting of or containing gold which, although manufactured, is, as such,
not a gold coin, an article of commerce, a work of art or of archaeological interest;
(d) gold derived from the smelting or treatment of any manufactured article containing
3. Sugar.
4. Any knife having a blade which—
(a) opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in or
attached to the handle of the knife, sometimes known as a “flick knife” or “flick gun”; or
(b) is released from the handle or sheath thereof by the force of gravity or the application
of centrifugal force and which, when released, is locked in place by means of a button, spring, lever or
other device, sometimes known as a “gravity knife”.
5. Mist nets designed or adapted, for the capture of wild birds.
6. Game traps of metal construction operated by springs.
7. The following goods originating in Zimbabwe—
(a) asbestos;
(b) iron ore;
(c) Pig iron;
(d) Chrome;
(e) Tobacco;
(f) Copper;
(g) Hides, skins and leather.
9. Dieldrin.
10. Aldrin.
11. Kitchen and table salt.
12. Beer.
13. Cane Sugar.
14. Ordinary Portland Cement.
15. Wheat flour.
16. Fertilizer. 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world