Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification
P13: Production and post-production requirements to export 
Date when the measure came into force
01 August 2007 
Publication where the measure is specified
Statutory Instrument 138 of 2007 
Regulation where the measure is specified
Control of Goods (Import and Export) (Agriculture) Order, 2007 
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
3. (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 4, any goods listed in the Second Schedule.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to any goods which are in transit through Zimbabwe to a place beyond the borders thereof.
4. The Secretary may issue a permit authorising, subject to this order and any other law in force in Zimbabwe—
(b) the export from Zimbabwe of any goods listed in the Second Schedule; on such terms and conditions as may be specified in or attached to the permit.
5. An application for the issue of a permit under this order shall be made in writing and, subject to section 6, shall be addressed to the Secretary for Industry and International Trade, Private Bag 7708, Causeway, Zimbabwe.
6. Where a permit is required in accordance with this order and also in accordance with the Animal Health (Import) Regulations, 1989, published in Statutory Instrument 57 of 1989 (hereinafter called "Animal Health (Import) Regulations") to authorise the import into Zimbabwe of the same goods—
(a) an application for the issue of a permit in terms of this order shall be deemed to be an application for the issue of a permit in terms of the Animal Health (Import) Regulations;
(b) if the Secretary issues a permit, he or she shall thereupon forward the permit and the application to the appropriate person authorised to issue a permit in terms of the Animal Health (Import) Regulations to be dealt with by such person in accordance with such regulations unless—
(i) he or she is satisfied that the person authorised to issue a permit in terms of the Animal Health (Import) Regulations has already issued a permit which is in force; or
(ii) the applicant specifically requests otherwise;
(c) the Secretary shall not issue a permit under this order, if he or she is satisfied that the person authorised to issue a permit in terms of the Animal Health (Import) Regulations has already refused to issue a permit;
(d) if the Secretary issues a permit under this order after being furnished with a permit issued by the person authorised to issue a permit under the Animal Health (Import) Regulations which is in force, he or she shall thereupon forward both permits to the applicant.
7. (1) The Secretary may, by notice in writing to a permit holder, revoke a permit issued by him or her under section 4 if the permit holder has failed to comply with this order or if any statement made in the application for a permit is found to be inaccurate or misleading.
(2) A permit revoked in terms the subsection (1) shall be returned immediately by the holder thereof to the Secretary.
8. A permit issued under section 4 shall not be transferable and any purported transfer of such permit shall be invalid.
9. Nothing contained in this order or in any permit issued thereunder shall exempt the holder of such permit from complying with the provisions of the Grain Marketing Act [Chapter 18:14] or any other law in force in Zimbabwe controlling the import into or export from Zimbabwe of the goods to which such permit relates.
10. Any permit issued under section 6 of the Control of Goods (Agriculture) (Import and Export) (Agriculture) Order, 1974, published in Rhodesia Government Notice 216 of 1974, shall be deemed to have been issued by the Secretary under section 4 of this order. 
Reference of the measure
Articles 3, 4(b), 5-10 
Measure also domestic
No 

Products affected by the measure.

Code Product Partial coverage Partial coverage indication Date in Date out
1501.10.00 Lard No    
1502.10.00 Tallow No    
1502.90.00 Other Yes dripping    
0803 Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried. No    
1003 Barley. No    
1103.19.00 Of other cereals Yes barley meal    
1107 Malt, whether or not roasted. Yes barley    
0708.20.00 Beans (vigna spp. phaseolus spp.) No    
0713.3 Beans (Vigna spp., Phaseolus spp.) : No    
1106.10 Of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 07.13 Yes dried bean meal    
02 Meat and edible meat offal Yes beef and veal    
0401 Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter. Yes cream    
0402 Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter. Yes cream and skimmed milk powder    
0403 Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa Yes cream    
0405 Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads. Yes cream    
0405 Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads. Yes butter    
0405.90.00 Other Yes ghee    
1602 Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood. Yes canned meat    
1515.90 Other Yes cashew nut oil    
0102.2 Cattle : No    
1511.90.90 Other Yes dead cattle    
2523 Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers. No    
0406 Cheese and curd. Yes cheese    
0805 Citrus fruit, fresh or dried. No    
1513 Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified. No    
0901 Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion. No    
0902 Tea, whether or not flavoured. No    
2309 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding. Yes compound containing flour meal, residues and other preparations of a kind suitable only for animal feedstuff    
0407 Birds' eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked. Yes of poultry    
03 Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates Yes fish    
31 Fertilisers No    
41 Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather Yes hides and skins    
2105.00.00 Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa Yes ice-cream    
84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof Yes Industrial equipment    
85 Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles Yes Industrial equipment    
1103.13.00 Of maize (corn) Yes Maize/mealie meal    
1517.90.00 Other Yes liquid margarine    
2301.10 - Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal; greaves Yes meat, blood and carcass meal    
1008.2 Millet : No    
1103.19.00 Of other cereals Yes Millet meal    
1107 Malt, whether or not roasted. Yes of millet    
0401 Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter. Yes Pasteurised and sterilised milk    
12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder No    
2306 Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable fats or oils, other than those of heading 23.04 or 23.05. Yes oil cake    
1511 Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified. No    
0103 Live swine. No    
0511.99.90 Other Yes dead pigs    
0701 Potatoes, fresh or chilled. No    
0105 Live poultry, that is to say, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls. No    
0511.99.00 Animal products not elsewherespecified or included; dead animalsof Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for humanconsumption: Other: OtherLive trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage Yes dead poultry    
1701.99.00 Other Yes refined sugar    
12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder Yes seeds for planting    
1007 Grain sorghum. No    
1103.19.00 Of other cereals Yes sorghum meal    
1107 Malt, whether or not roasted. Yes sorghum malt    
1201 Soya beans, whether or not broken. No    
2309 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding. No    
1206 Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken. No    
0902 Tea, whether or not flavoured. No    
44 Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal No    
9403 Other furniture and parts thereof. Yes Timber products    
4011 New pneumatic tyres, of rubber. No    
4012 Retreaded or used pneumatic tyres of rubber; solid or cushion tyres, tyre treads and tyre flaps, of rubber. No    
3823 Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols. Yes vegetable acid oils    
15 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes Yes vegetable fats and oils    
1101.00 Wheat or meslin flour. Yes wheat flour    
1001 Wheat and meslin. Yes wheat    
2302.30.00 Of wheat Yes wheat bran and pollard    
Description
Animal oils and fats (lard, tallow and dripping)
Animal semen and animal embryos
Bananas
Barley, barley meal, barley malt
Beans, dried bean meal
Beef, veal
Canned meat products
Cashew nut oil
Cattle, whether live or dead, including edible products produced from the carcasses of cattle, but
excluding meat extract, meat paste, potted meat and canned meat which has been subjected
to a process of cooking
Cement
Citrus fruits
Coconut oil
Coffee
Compound products containing flour, meal, residues and other preparations of a kind suitable only as animal feedstuff but excluding—
(a) antibiotic growth stimulants
(b) cat and dog food
(c) chemical additions to animal feedstuff
(d) inert fillers
(e) synthetic animal feedstuff
(f) trace elements
Cooking oil
Cotton, bleached cotton, cotton lint, cotton seed, cotton yarn, ginned cotton seed and raw cotton
or unginned cotton
Eggs of poultry, whether in shell, pulp orfdried form
Fish, whether fresh or dried
Fertiliser
Full cream milk powder and skimmed mild powder
Groundnuts
Hides and skins
Ice-cream and ice-cream mix
Industrial equipment
Margarine
Maize, including—
(a) crushed maize
(b) dried maize (on or off the cob)
(c) green maize on the cob
(d) samp
Maize meal, blood meal and carcass meal—
(a) haming chop
(b) maize cones
(c) maize grits
Meat meal, blood meal and carcass meal
Millet in the grain, millet meal and millet malt
Milk—
(a) lacto
(b) liquid milk
(c) pasteurised
(d) sterilised
(e) ultra heat treated (UHT) milk
Oilseeds, oil cake and oil cake meal
Palm oil
Pigs, whether live or dead, including edible products produced from such carcasses, but
excluding meat extract, meat paste, meat powder, potted meat and canned meat products
which have been subjected to a process of heating
Poultry, whether live or dead, including—
(a) day old chicks
(b) products produced from such carcasses, but excluding canned poultry products which
have been subjected to a process of heating
Seeds for planting
Sorghum in the grain, sorghum meal and sorghum malt
Soya beans
Sunflower
Tea
Wheat in the grain, wheat bran and wheat pollard 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Inclusion/Exclusion Country Date in Date out
Inclusion Entire world    
Description
All countries